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.
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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.
Adoption, Potentiality, & the Loss of Unknowing w/ Erinrose Mager
Sema
59 minutes 38 seconds
4 years ago
Adoption, Potentiality, & the Loss of Unknowing w/ Erinrose Mager
Erinrose Mager talks with CL Young about the unknowingness associated with adoption and parental estrangement, the interplay between potentiality and failure, and ritual as a presencing practice.
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Erinrose Mager is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in and adopted from Korea. Her work appears in jubilat, Fence, DIAGRAM, Prelude, and elsewhere, and she’s a doctoral candidate in Literary Arts at the University of Denver. She is at work on a full-length collection.
Erinrose Mager and Mary-Kim Arnold in Pulpmouth: https://www.pulpmouth.net/issue3-erinrose-mager-and-mary-kim-
Sema’s music is from a song by Teal Gardner called “Joy Heraldic.” You can find more of her music here: https://spirit88.bandcamp.com/album/free-in-the-open-field
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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.
