Sema

About Sema

Sema is an evolving experiment in deep attention and community-making across form, place, and time. Initiated in 2018 as a poetry-focused organization in Boise, Idaho, Sema continues to transform and has been located here since 2020. 2025 - present Experimental records; conversations with poets, artists, and care workers. 2020 - 2021 Conversations with writers on loss, grief, healing, and death.

Publisher

CL Young

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Dec 2020

Latest episode

1 Jun 2025

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Jun 2025

   “BOISE” WORK : record 6 : Ceci Richardson-Salvador + Teal Gardner

   Teal Gardner and Ceci Richardson-Salvador discuss creating work rooted in love for the land and finding unification through care in this interview.

2. 

   27 Apr 2025

   "BOISE" WORK : record 5 : Ryan Simmons + Drone Bath

   Ryan Simmons discusses connecting with nonhuman entities through sound and recording in Boise, exploring relationships of care and translation in an interview.

3. 

   21 Apr 2025

   “BOISE” WORK : record 4 : Hallie Maxwell

   Hallie Maxwell discusses community, process, and personal history in relation to her work at the James Castle House in an interview.

4. 

   17 Feb 2025

   “BOISE” WORK : record 3 : Blake Hunter + Taylor Rico-Pekerol

   Blake Hunter and Taylor Rico-Pekerol discuss desettling, science fiction, and connecting with place through care in this interview.

5. 

   25 Jan 2025

   “BOISE” WORK : record 2 : Tyler Brewington

   Tyler Brewington discusses grief release, time, and poetry in relation to place, offering insights into reckoning with grief in this interview with Sema.

6. 

   19 Jan 2025

   “BOISE” WORK : record 1 : Karena Youtz

   Karena Youtz discusses grief release rituals and carerelated grief in this interview on January 16, 2025.

7. 

   21 Jul 2021

   Relationality, Embodiment, & Suicide w/ Mairead Case

   Author Mairead Case discusses relationality, embodiment, and grieving suicide with CL Young, exploring sadness and writing as a means of processing loss in this interview.

8. 

   17 Jun 2021

   Ambient Loss, Having Children, & the Necessity of Storytelling w/ Camille T. Dungy

   Poet Camille T. Dungy discusses ambient loss, climate crisis, cross-generational relationships, and storytelling with host CL Young in this interview, highlighting the importance of narrative.

9. 

   26 Apr 2021

   Adoption, Potentiality, & the Loss of Unknowing w/ Erinrose Mager

   Writer Erinrose Mager explores the complexities of adoption, parental estrangement, and ritual practices with host CL Young in an interview about embracing the unknown.

10. 

    18 Mar 2021

    Newborn Loss, Place, & Deep Grief w/ Cedar Brant

    Poet Cedar Brant discusses newborn loss, the sense of place, and the erasure of self with CL Young in this interview about deep grief and parenthood.

11. 

    23 Jan 2021

    Boise, Friendship Loss, & Time w/ Tyler Brewington

    Author Tyler Brewington discusses Boise, grief, and the complexities of friendship with CL Young in this interview.

12. 

    3 Jan 2021

    Writing, Detachment, & Ritual w/ Rushi Vyas

    Poet Rushi Vyas discusses writing as a response to loss, the importance of detachment in healing, and ritual's decolonizing power with host CL Young in this interview.

13. 

    19 Dec 2020

    Threads of Loss, Being a Therapist, & Intergenerational Grief w/ Ann O’Leary Young

    Ann O’Leary Young MSW LCSW discusses loss, her work as a therapist, and intergenerational grief with CL Young in this interview.

Who has been a guest on Sema

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Teal Gardner
• Ceci Richardson-Salvador
• Ryan Simmons
• Hallie Maxwell
• Blake Hunter

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 21 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

21

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.