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.
Cedar Brant talks with CL Young about newborn loss, place, and the erasure of self that accompanies deep grief and parenthood.
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Cedar Brant grew up in northern Montana and worked for many years as a field botanist. She is the author of the book of poems ‘Like Any Other Dream Will Do.’ She currently lives in Moab, Utah where she is training as a birth story listener focusing on birth trauma with the Birth Story Medicine School, homesteading in a trailer on a creek, and spending time in the canyons with her husband, her child, and her dog.
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.
