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Inspiration PracticeThe Read-Write-Read-Write Method Man: Hiram Sims and The Sims Library of PoetryIn 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! Soon, I predict that this town will come to be known as: "Sims City."Born and raised in and around Los Angeles, Sims is a poet, essayist and Creative Writing Professor teaching with The Community Literature Initiative. He graduated from University of Southern California and received a B.A. in...2021-12-1553 min
Inspiration PracticeTweaking 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 modular synthesizers, inspired by artists as diverse as Tangerine Dream and Throbbing Gristle, and by classical composers like Stravinsky and Schoenberg, while writing and producing electronic music ranging from experimental to pop. Cato soon found himself scoring prime-time national television and documentary films in his native country of Norway, before relocating to LA...2021-10-141h 00
Inspiration PracticeLooks Like He Made It: Mathew Timmons + Insert Blanc PressHost 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 renewed post-COVID flurry of publications, openings and fresh performances). In our conversation, we grappled with the sometimes painfully incompatible and sharply conflicting motives of those who make art and those who consume it. And, how artists might find ways to reconcile themselves to continue to create work with in...2021-09-221h 01
Inspiration PracticeBeing Possessed or Self-Possessed: Poet Elena Karina ByrneOn 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 book of published, “interrupted” essays: Voyeur Hour: Poetry, Art, Film, & Desire. As part of her interdisciplinary work, she is writing screenplays and short stories while enrolled in Antioch University Santa Barbara's MFA program in Writing & Contemporary Media.Former 12-year Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America...2021-08-081h 05
Inspiration PracticeHerbal Essences & Lyric Essays: Jennifer KabatJennifer 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 herbalist, she lives in rural upstate New York, teaches at the New School, and serves on her volunteer fire department. She was recently awarded a Silvers Foundation Grant and is currently working on a memoir on time and socialist uprisings. That memoir is actually part of 3 short novella-length essays on which...2021-07-231h 10
Inspiration PracticeDaily Negations of a Neo-Stoic: John S. HallJohn 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, Jesus Was Way Cool, and a self-help parody, Daily Negations, both from Soft Skull Press. He has cultivated a deep and wide connection to NYC's spoken word poetry scene, performing at such seminal venues as Speakeasy, ABC No Rio, Nuyorican Poets Cafe and others. He recently wrote to...2021-06-101h 21
Inspiration PracticeHot Thoughts Made Cool: Stuart Dischell On Writing PoetryOn 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 time, we came together for meals, heated philosophical discussions, and field trips with our fellow artists to desert beaches, beer bars, desolate Valencia's Roman ruins, and the red rock fortress of Alhambra in Granada.In this episode, I read his poem, "Good Hope Road", the same as the ti...2021-06-021h 10
Inspiration Practice"The Vault" by Andrés Cerpa: A Meditative Poetry ReadingGreetings! 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 when I needed it most, as is so often the case...) as Poem-of-the-Day for May 18, 2021 from Poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets, of which I am soon to be a proud member. I sincerely hope you enjoy this poem and my musing upon it. End music is an excerpt from...2021-05-2717 min
Inspiration PracticeBetween A Mystic and An Artist: An Interview with Tattfoo TanIn 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 issues relating to ecology, sustainability, and healthy living. His work is project-based, ephemeral, experiential, educational, and, more often than not, a lot of fun for the participants. He writes of himself that he is living a #contemplative life, following the path of #mystic and exploring #spirituality through the lens of an #artist. ...2021-05-131h 23
Inspiration PracticeDon’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.2021-05-1212 minInspiration PracticeLet Go and Let Your Creative Spirit Into Your LifeIn 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 you get some practice ideas here today!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2021-05-1014 minInspiration PracticeWhat 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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app2021-05-1009 minInspiration PracticeAffirmations 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 self-love and self-affirmation and some related beliefs that those who engage in these practices are self-indulgent versus healthy. He then compared how the Developed world, ironically organized around individualism, inclines towards Romantic Love of the Other as the height of personal growth, even when it borders on unhealthy obsession. The stark contrast...2021-05-0808 minInspiration PracticeInspiration Practice (Trailer)2021-05-0800 min
Tech BitesEpisode 55: Slow Money NYC with Derek DencklaNeed funding for your food tech start-up? If it’s a thoughtful, sustainable, and potentially impactful business – you might be able to get some Slow Money. Today’s in-studio guest is Derek Denckla, impact investor, strategic advisor and serial social entrepreneur. We’ll discuss the mission of Slow Money NYC to connect people to their local food business, to grow successful economies and food supply, from the ground up.
2016-03-1451 min
Eating MattersEpisode 43: Food Startups with Derek Denckla, Ethan Brown, and Alex SorensonIn this episode of Eating Matters, Jenna is joined by the founders of 3 food companies representing different aspects of the startup communities. Derek Denckla draws from his years of experience as an advisor in the business startup world to talk about the changing face of food tech startups. Ethan Brown, founder of Beyond Meat, shares his vision on future sustainability through meat alternatives. Chef Alex Sorenson of Blank Slate Kitchen discusses his transition from chef to entrepreneur.
“Now you go to bars, people don’t talk about I’m in a band, they talk about their st...2016-02-1845 min
The Farm ReportEpisode 67: Derek DencklaThis week on The Farm report, Heather Hyman and Erin Fairbanks are joined by friend of the show Derek Denckla. Derek updates us on Farm City and his many other endeavors as he touches on some of the problems facing our food system in the United States today. Tune in to learn more about events that fit in line with Derek’s work and find out how you can help. This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures. For more information visit www.whiteoakpastures.com
2011-02-1329 min
The Farm ReportEpisode 50: Derek DencklaThis week on The Farm Report Heather welcomed new co-host Erin Fairbanks to the show. The gals talked to Derek Denckla, author of TheGreenest.net and founder of FarmCity.us, a sort of combination catalyst, aggregator, and promotional tool for sustainable agriculture events. Tune in to find out how Derek’s survey of Bushwick revealed a community hungry for more food growth and less condos, and how a lagging economy and the vacant lots left in its wake put this shared dream within reach. This episode was sponsored by Roberta’s.
2010-09-0928 min