Season II, episode VIII of Half Mystic Radio features Davon Clark’s poems “For Rappers With Colored Beads” and “I Want a God Whose Heaven is Golden”, and Chok Kerong’s song “A Sweeter Sound”. This season hosted by special guest Stephanie Dogfoot. #halfmysticspeaks

Half Mystic is an independent publishing house, literary journal, radio show, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. You can find the full show notes, including the text of the two pieces featured in this episode, at: http://halfmystic.com/blog/hmr-ii-viii

Davon Clark is a Philadelphia-raised artist who is currently based in Chicago. He uses investigative journalism practices in his camerawork and poetry. His work looks to fill in the gaps left behind in coverage of the worlds that he lives in and peripheral to. His multimedia highlights include work with the Big Ten Network, City Bureau, and Sovereign Magazine. He’s a published international poetry slam champion. His poetry appears on Button Poetry, Write About Now, Poetry Slam, Inc., and more. He’s a 2017 CUPSI champion, 2-time NPS group piece finalist, 2018 Philly Pigeon Slam team member, and 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee. He likes flowers and the little things in life.

Chok Kerong has established himself as one of Singapore’s most versatile talents. He has distinguished himself as an inventive pianist and organist, and has performed at such events as the Tokyo Jazz Festival, Singapore International Festival of Arts and the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. A composer and arranger of remarkable clarity and depth, his growing body of work includes music for big band, string quartet, hybrid ensembles, and more recently, projects that combine songwriting with contemporary music production.

Season II, episode VII of Half Mystic Radio features Anthony Thomas Lombardi’s poems “what happens when the addict finds himself drawn to deeper shades of blue?” and “the profits of gravity”, and Babushka’s song “Sherpa”. This season hosted by special guest Stephanie Dogfoot. #halfmysticspeaks

Half Mystic is an independent publishing house, literary journal, radio show, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. You can find the full show notes, including the text of the two pieces featured in this episode, at: http://halfmystic.com/blog/hmr-ii-vii

Anthony Thomas Lombardi is a Brooklyn Poets Fellow, a Tin House Writers Workshop alumnus, and a recipient of a scholarship from the Shipman Agency. A former music journalist, he served as Assistant Director for Polyphony Lit’s Summer Scholars Program, and is currently a poetry reader / contributor for The Adroit Journal. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in wildness, North American Review, Third Coast Magazine, Gigantic Sequins, RHINO Poetry, DIALOGIST, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his cat, Dilla and is still recovering from his alliteration addiction.

Babushka is a Singapore-based band playing original instrumental jazz, folk and world music. Babushka’s soundscape is a combination of 5 instruments—Fauzo’s electrifying guitar solos, Sophia’s free-flowing keyboard playing, Don’s rhythm chops and loops, Jennifer’s dynamic drumming and Jana’s improvisation full of surprises. Their repertoire consists of original jazz, folk and world music compositions—all instrumental. Each ambient tune has a story to tell and a place in mind, from treacherous mountain faces to sun-kissed beaches.

Season II, episode VI of Half Mystic Radio features Jihyun Yun’s poems “Savaging” and “Revisitations”, and Henry Finch’s song “Hessen”. This season hosted by special guest Stephanie Dogfoot. #halfmysticspeaks

Half Mystic is an independent publishing house, literary journal, radio show, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. You can find the full show notes, including the text of the two pieces featured in this episode, at: http://halfmystic.com/blog/hmr-ii-vi

Jihyun Yun is a Korean-American poet, educator & Fulbright Research Fellow. A winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, her full length collection Some Are Always Hungry was published by The University of Nebraska Press in September 2020. She received her BA in Psychology from UC Davis, and her MFA from New York University where she was a fully funded fellow. Originally from California, she now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Henry Finch is author of the chapbook Reversing Falls (forthcoming SurVision 2021), winner of the 2020 James Tate International Poetry Prize. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his writing and translations appear in Apofenie, North American Review, Seattle Review, About Place, and many other journals. With Andra Rotaru, he co-edits Crevice (Romania). He lives in Berlin.

Season II, episode V of Half Mystic Radio features Jehanne Dubrow’s poems “What Do You Give the War That Has Everything” and “Hail and Farewell”, and John the Rabbit’s song “At Night, At Home, At Last”. This season hosted by special guest Stephanie Dogfoot. #halfmysticspeaks

Half Mystic is an independent publishing house, literary journal, radio show, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. You can find the full show notes, including the text of the two pieces featured in this episode, at: http://halfmystic.com/blog/hmr-ii-v

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of seven poetry collections, including most recently American Samizdat, and a book of creative nonfiction. Her eighth collection of poems, Simple Machines, won the Richard Wilbur Poetry Award and will be published by the University of Evansville Press in 2020. And her ninth book of poems, Wild Kingdom, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in 2021. Her work has appeared in Poetry, New England Review, and The Southern Review. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.

John the Rabbit is the nom du guerre of poet, programmer and musician John Paul Davis. His first book, Crown Prince Of Rabbits, was published in 2017 by Great Weather For Media. His poems have been published in numerous magazines and journals. He is one-half of the indie pop duo Love In the Ruins. He lives with his wife, actress Mahira Kakkar, in New York City.

Content warning: this episode contains a homophobic slur.

Season II, episode IV of Half Mystic Radio features Sara Hovda’s poems “Faggot Once Again Considers Their Body”, “My Own Gender”, and “One Year on Hormones”, and Cronkite Satellite’s song “Be Alone”. #halfmysticspeaks

Half Mystic is an independent publishing house, literary journal, radio show, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. You can find the full show notes, including the text of the three pieces featured in this episode, at: http://halfmystic.com/blog/hmr-ii-iv

Sara Hovda was born and raised in rural Minnesota. She received her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Winona State University and her MA in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Some of her research interests include modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, queer poetics, and queer and feminist theory. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Nimrod, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere.

Cronkite Satellite is a one man band with a full band sound. He’s an international live looping musician as well as a multi-instrumentalist, producer, sound engineer, filmmaker, poet, graphic designer and educator. He currently has seven independently produced albums available, and is steadily performing gigs all around the planet. Previous tours include: America, China, Mexico, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Turkey, Qatar, Cambodia, Belgium, Thailand, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore and India.

Season II, episode III of Half Mystic Radio features Lyd Havens' poems "Unruly" and "206 Days Later", and Marla Bendini's song "Blossom". This season hosted by special guest Stephanie Dogfoot. #halfmysticspeaks

Half Mystic is an independent publishing house, literary journal, radio show, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. You can find the full show notes, including the text of the two pieces featured in this episode, at: http://halfmystic.com/blog/hmr-ii-iii

Lyd Havens is a poet currently living in Boise, Idaho. Their work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Shallow Ends, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others. They are the author of the chapbook I Gave Birth to All the Ghosts Here (Nostrovia! Press, 2018), the winner of the 2018 ellipsis… Poetry Prize, and a 2019 finalist for the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. Lyd is currently a senior at Boise State University, where they will graduate with a BFA in Creative Writing in 2021.

Marla Bendini is a transgender, non-binary visual and performance artist, club personality, musician, pole and aerial artist based in Singapore. Her trans identity and practice are profoundly interrelated. She created her persona in 2007 as an amalgamation between art and life, to explore multiple liminal identities and fluidity in perspectives. It was also to explore how the trans body allows one to occupy a new artistic space and challenge current understandings of identity. 

Season II, episode II of Half Mystic Radio features Ben Togut's poems "Saudade: Autumn", "Elegy", and "Coercion Aubade", and Bennet Bay's song "Gone". This season hosted by special guest Stephanie Dogfoot. #halfmysticspeaks

Half Mystic is an independent publishing house, literary journal, radio show, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. You can find the full show notes, including the text of the three pieces featured in this episode, at: http://halfmystic.com/blog/hmr-ii-ii

Ben Togut is a queer poet and singer-songwriter from New York City. He has received national recognition in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, as well as an honorable mention from the Wesleyan University Hamilton Prize for Creativity. His recent work is published or forthcoming in Hobart, The Offing, DIALOGIST, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. He is an undergrad at Wesleyan University.

Bennett Bay is a musician based in Singapore whose sound is inspired by everyday occurrences, personal values and pastoral imageries. An acoustic guitar stands at the core of his music, with flourishes of string quartets and brass trios in an attempt to keep the music as simple and natural as possible. His music harkens to Sigur Rós, Explosions in the Sky and Nick Drake.

Season II, episode I of Half Mystic Radio features Logan February's poems "A Monument", "The Gemini Man", and "Husband Is the Loveliest Word", and Love in the Ruins' song "Matt & Polly's Suite". This season hosted by special guest Stephanie Dogfoot. #halfmysticspeaks

Half Mystic is an independent publishing house, literary journal, radio show, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. You can find the full show notes, including the text of the three pieces featured in this episode, at: http://halfmystic.com/blog/hmr-ii-i

Logan February is a non-binary Nigerian poet and graduate student at Purdue University’s MFA program in Creative Writing. They and their work have been featured in The Guardian Life, Dazed, The Rumpus, Lambda Literary, Washington Square Review, Africa In Dialogue, and more. They are the author of In The Nude (Ouida Poetry, 2019 / PANK Books, 2021) and three chapbooks.

Love in the Ruins is Dana Suchow and John Paul Davis. When they're not making music, Dana is a speaker and educator for women's empowerment; John is a poet and programmer.