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Inspiration Practice
by Derek Denckla
Dialogues exploring how artists & writers relate to rituals and the spiritual — connecting to inspiration & maintain a creative practice. Hosted by Derek Denckla, poet, professor of creative writing at L.A. Film School, and fellow seeker of inspiration practices. Listen to our "sister" podcast— Praxinoscope— that details our experimental performance platform launched in 2022.
Episodes
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The Read-Write-Read-Write Method Man: Hiram Sims and The Sims Library of Poetry
In this episode, I speak with friend, mentor, colleague and poet, Hiram Sims, an unstoppable force who brings poetry to all the diverse corners of Los Angeles --- and the World. The episode was recorded live at Sims's latest, greatest bricks-and-mortar enterprise --- The Sims Library of Poetry!...
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Tweaking The Feedback Loop Of Vocation and Devotion: Cato (Gilmour) + Circadian Delays
"Noises are sounds that have not yet been intellectualized." -- John Cage Producer-Host Derek Denckla spoke with Cato in the kitchen of his home studio, an industrial loft located in downtown Los Angeles. Recording artist, film & television composer and remixer Cato got started by tweaking…
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Looks Like He Made It: Mathew Timmons + Insert Blanc Press
Host Derek Denckla spoke with Impresario Mathew Timmons at the tail-end of August, after Matt had recently produced, "We Made It," an event celebrating the 15th Anniversary of his LA-based imprint, Insert Blanc Press, and as we were swinging into the September start of the Art Season (with its...
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Being Possessed or Self-Possessed: Poet Elena Karina Byrne
On July 23, 2021, I had an hour+ dialogue with Elena Karina Byrne over Zoom about her artistic process. She will release her fourth book If This Makes You Nervous with Omnidawn in October 2021 and a separate chapbook entitled No, Don’t with What Books Press in 2020. She has also just completed a...
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Herbal Essences & Lyric Essays: Jennifer Kabat
Jennifer Kabat’s essays have been included in Best American Essays, Granta, Frieze, BOMB, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, the New York Review of Books, and the White Review. She’s been awarded a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism. An apprentice...
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Daily Negations of a Neo-Stoic: John S. Hall
John S. Hall is a poet/spoken word artist, ukulelist and singer-songwriter. He has released numerous albums, including nine albums with various incarnations of his band King Missile -numbering one to four. He was a poet first and a rocker second. John is the author of a collection of poetry…
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Hot Thoughts Made Cool: Stuart Dischell On Writing Poetry
On Friday, May 21, I spoke with poet, professor and friend, Stuart Dischell, whom I met in a most romantic setting although we were not romantically involved: Mojácar, Spain at La Fundación Valparaiso, an artist's residency where we were both engaged in our separate writing projects. In that…
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"The Vault" by Andrés Cerpa: A Meditative Poetry Reading
Greetings! In this Meditative Poetry Reading (first of many-to-come!), I read a poem and then investigate its sounds, meanings, impact and structure. Today, I explore the poem, "The Vault," by Andrés Cerpa (reprinted below in its entirety). This poem recently appeared in my Email In-Box (just…
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Between A Mystic and An Artist: An Interview with Tattfoo Tan
In this first interview for the Podcast, Host Derek Denckla has invited his sometime collaborator and longtime friend, ecological artist Tatfoo Tan to join him for a talk about exploring spiritual practice integrated with arts practice. Malaysian-born Tattfoo Tan collaborates with the public on...
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Don’t Just Think Carefully; Act Thoughtfully!
In this fourth installment of examining a Meditation from the daily reader, Answers in the Heart, Host Derek Denckla explores the steps needed to move towards personal growth and change: Awareness, Acceptance and Action.
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Let Go and Let Your Creative Spirit Into Your Life
In this third installment of the first week of this newly-launched podcast, Host Derek Denckla reads and discusses a passage from a daily meditation reader, Answers in the Heart, sharing his own Inspiration Practice before interviewing renowned poets about theirs for May’s Poetry Month. I hope…
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What to do on a rainy Sunday?
Host Derek Denckla reads from daily meditation reader, Answers in the Heart, for May 9th and discusses how we can seek comfort in idle time, which has never been more present in our minds since enduring the solitude of the last year during the COVID quarantines.
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Affirmations and Self-Love: Narcissism or Healthy Lovingkindness?
In this episode, Derek Denckla reads the May 8th entry from a daily meditations reader, Answers in the Heart, and discusses the implications of the passage as it touches upon the practice of affirmations and self-love. He explores how we frequently hear discomfort expressed about the practices of...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Dialogues exploring how artists & writers relate to rituals and the spiritual — connecting to inspiration & maintain a creative practice. Hosted by Derek Denckla, poet, professor of creative writing at L.A. Film School, and fellow seeker of inspiration practices. Listen to our "sister" podcast— Praxinoscope— that details our experimental performance platform launched in 2022.
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Dialogues exploring how artists & writers relate to rituals and the spiritual — connecting to inspiration & maintain a creative practice. Hosted by Derek Denckla, poet, professor of creative writing at L.A. Film School, and fellow seeker of inspiration practices. Listen to our "sister" podcast—...
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