Weeks 30-31: How Artists Survive in America - Part 1 with Taneesh Kaur and Ken Paul Rosenthal

In which the podcaster presents the first of three special episodes for the month of January in which he interviews artists and writers about how they manage to support themselves and their creative work while carving out time for it in contemporary American culture. 

WITH GUESTS

Taneesh Kaur

Taneesh Kaur ("Core") is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist whose primary media are writing (poetry, memoir, fiction, essays) and painting. She's been doing both off and on her whole life. For a long time she was working full-time or freelance in corporate jobs (editing, linguistics, copywriting). Since going back to school, it's been loans and jobs in education. She is working toward being a full-time artist and educator in post-secondary. Some milestones in her career:

• Thawing: A Poetic Memoir (2024), her full-length collection with Collapse Press
• Poetry in journals (see links)
• APAture Festival (2024) with Kearny Street Workshop
• Solo art show "Haiga of Resistance: Body" (2023)
• Experimental film artist residencies with Queer Rebel Productions (2022)

Relevant links:

• Thawing: A Poetic Memoir (2024)
• Taneesh's website; IG/YT/Twitter: @TaneeshCantos
• Collapse Press
• Narrative Northeast
• Great Weather for MEDIA
• Colossus Press
• Bay Poets on KALW

Ken Paul Rosenthal

Ken Paul Rosenthal makes lyrical, character-driven documentary films that explore the spectrum of difference and enrich the world with kindness and compassion. These stories of trauma and transformation are presented against a backdrop of urban and natural landscapes, archival social hygiene films, re-authored home movies, and animated text. In his spare time, Ken stages an emotional wellness pop-up, Your Empathy Stand (Y.E.S.) in public parks, freely offering active listening to one and all.

 Web Links:

• www.kenpaulrosenthal.com
• Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone
• Art Heals All Wounds (a 6-minute voicemail)
• Where Icarus Flew (a poem)
• Watch Crooked Beauty

Chapters

• 1:52 Taneesh Kaur - reading and interview
• 32:11 Ken Paul Rosenthal - intro and interview