Confessing Animals
Seasoned and fresh-faced artists (of every genre) discuss how to make creativity work within the complexities and challenges of adult life. Confessing Animals podcast co-hosts Frances Story + Vanessa Aricco, both working writers, unveil the secrets and struggles of creative living in a rapid fire capitalist society. One guest at a time, Jen + Vanessa ask, How Does Your Life Translate to Art?
Intro and all music provided by Ashley Raines
https://www.ashleyrainesmusic.com/
Episodes
54 episodes
A Softer Kind of Audacity: Jess Whetsel
Jess Whetsel is a poet, writer, editor, and public speaker based in Toledo, Ohio on Erie, Kickapoo, Seneca, and Odawa land. Her poetry has appeared in many literary journals, including Tulip Tree Review, Discretionary Love, and Sage Cigarettes....
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:16:55
My Inner Rewilding: Kate Mapother
Kate Mapother is the author of two poetry collections, Tell Me You Hear the Riot and carved. She has been published in the lit mag kerning / a space for words, and the book Signs & Symbols of Our Ancestors. She lives...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:02:55
Closure Is Not Justice: Andrew Johnson
In 1988, an explosion killed six Kansas City firefighters. Closure Is Not Justice is a public art project drawing attention to the 1988 explosion, and the public campaign that generated false testimony among residents in the Marlborough neighbo...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:14:04
On Endings and New Beginnings
On endings and new beginnings On disappearing On completely changing your personality, or learning to speak at a lower volume without the word fuck7 of Cups from Rachel True's True Heart Intuitive Tarot...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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30:05
BANS OFF OUR BODIES
In light of the impending overturn of Roe v Wade, Vanessa & Jen attended the Planned Parenthood Rally: BANS OFF OUR BODIES on May 14, 2022 at Mill Cre...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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53:24
Live Reading at Charlotte Street Foundation: Vanessa Aricco
Live @ Charlotte Street Foundation w/Vanessa Aricco Reading 1: On the Cusp of Air & Water [Full length poetry manuscript, forthcoming]Read 2: Self Saints of Becoming [WIP]Vanessa Aricco is a multimedia poet explori...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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31:06
Gay PK (Pastor’s Kid): Ash Parsons
Ashley Parsons (she/her) is a queer woman who tells true stories about love, mystery, and embodiment through writing, photography, mentoring, and speaking. She is an alumni of the 2019 Thread at Yale program through the Yale Journalism Initiati...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:01:21
Our Destination is Now: Bonus w/Rev. Dr. Peter Tremain
Listen to Rev. Dr. Peter Tremain's full episode: Dirt, Water & Grace https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirt-water-grace-rev-dr-peter-tremain/id1544861884?i=1000554058943https://confessinganimalspodcast.buzzsprout.co...
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Season 4
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7:18
Fleeing & Finding Home: Waleska Barroeta
Waleska Barroeta/Waleska FontShe/Her/HersWaleska (she/her) is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist. Waleska is a cultural promoter, copyeditor, teacher and poet, having performed in Mexico, Venezuela, and Kansas City. Her wor...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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53:58
DIRT, WATER, & GRACE: Rev. Dr. Peter Tremain
Peter Tremain is a retired Lutheran Pastor, who served as Pastor of three congregations over a span of forty years. After retirement and the death of his wife he traveled solo outside the USA at least two months a year for the last ten years wi...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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True Crime Fairy Tale: Peregrine Honig
Season 4 is all about Confession! Our first guest is Peregrine Honig: Artist. Curator. Writer. Wife. CW: Mention of sex trafficking, pedophile, ephebophile, and murderPeregrine Honig (she/her) (born 1976 i...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:22:16
Writing and Rewriting the Self
Welcome to Season 4 of Confessing Animals Podcast. Jen and Vanessa discuss why this podcast is called Confessing Animals and talk a lot of shit per the us cuz no one's listening! *plz note that Vanessa says "appear" when she meant ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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41:13
Happy New Year: Unabridged
Happy First Year! Jen calls Vanessa, who's two mimosas deep, on her tin can to wrap up the first year of Confessing Animals. Intro and Outro Poems by Vanessa AriccoDownload...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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25:57
How to Make The Darkness Glow: Andreas Fleps
Andreas Fleps is a poet based near Chicago. He studied theology and philosophy at Dominican University, and his debut collection of poems entitled, “Well into the Night” (via Energion Publications) was released at the end of 2020. He translates...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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57:33
The Gossipers In My Mind: Patrick Grant
Patrick Grant grew up in Overland Park, KS where he is now a high school Spanish teacher. After graduating from the University of Kansas, Patrick worked with a Christian collegiate ministry in San Antonio, Texas and then the Dominican Republic....
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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53:06
What Remains Unsaid: Andrew Mcilvaine
PLUG Gallery Solid Poetry: Andrew McilvaineAndrew Mcilvaine is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Southern Texas and later relocated to Missouri. Mcilvain...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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36:56
Capsule Review Queen: film, origami & creativity with Leanne Kubicz
Leanne Kubicz is an origami artist and tv & film critic based in Kansas City, MO. A person of many talents, she was an official statistician for the New York Red Bulls Major League Soccer team from 2001-2013, was founder of her own company ...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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58:19
Sacred Rage: Rachel Puckett
Rachel Puckett is a lifestyle and wedding photographer residing in Columbus, Ohio, who has dreams bigger than her body can handle at the moment. When her 7th grade Biology teacher enthusiastically insisted the students were all scientists, her ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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48:58
Tossed & Found: Erin J. McGrane
Erin McGrane is a writer; musician; actress; public speaker; and professional development mentor. Notably, Erin appears in the Oscar-nominated film, UP IN THE AIR alongside George Clooney. She has toured the US extensively with her musical grou...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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58:31
A Liberation Tool: Stephen Hill
Stephen Hill is a human aboard Spaceship Earth trying to figure things out through writing, shaping, talking, helping, and documenting. His present location is within the Kansas City Metro area with his family, and he helps pay the bills by wor...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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57:37
Ordinary Magic: Heather C Moll
Heather C. Moll (she/her) lives on the edge of the windswept Canadian plains. She spends her days searching for her muse, (who visits, most often and inconveniently, when she is cleaning toilets or walking her big, fluffy dog) and parceling wor...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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56:59
Gospel of Courage: LA Roquemore
LA Roquemore is a writer, a conversationalist, a professional photographer, a mother, a wife, an asker of ALL the questions, a collector of moments, and an encourager of souls. She hosts writing workshops in Lakeland, Florida where she lives wi...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:17:29
Truth Is An Illegal Substance: Calvin Arsenia
Order Calvin’s book Every Good Boy Does Fine now!Calvin Arsenia has built a reputation for turning the arts wor...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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51:35
To Be Considered: Courtney Faye Taylor
Courtney Faye Taylor is the winner of the 92Y Discovery / Boston Review Poetry Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has featured in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, Ploughshares, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, Best New ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:10:38
