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.