Episode 204: poetic license with Steve Bell and Malcolm Guite

I recently had the opportunity to host a public conversation with Steve Bell and Malcolm Guite about art and literature and the intersections with faith. Steve is an award winning singer-songwriter-storyteller from Winnipeg, MB. Malcolm is a priest and poet from the UK. These two friends have an infectious love of stories and songs and poetry. I knew that, if I got them talking about the art that influenced them and how they developed as artists themselves, I just needed to stay out of their way.
We talk about Shakespeare and Keats, Bruce Cockburn and Coleridge, and staying connected in the pandemic. I loved every single second of this conversation. At a time when most of us “feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread,” to quote Tolkien, this conversation was life giving.

I’m grateful Steve and Malcolm allowed me to share out talk on Geek4.

Check out Steve’s music, including his pandemic Loft Sessions, on his Youtube page and follow him on Instagram @signpoststeve and Twitter @signpoststeve

You can follow Malcom on Twiiter @malcolmguite and watch his “Spell in the Library” series on his Youtube page.

Episode 203: Talking Potter with Katy McDaniel

Confession time, geeks: this episode has been in the queue for a while.

It’s been a hard winter. In addtion to record snowfall in on the Canadian prairies that has left me buried under a mountain of snow, the academic year has been very demanding. And there’s this pesky pandemic. we’re all still navigating. On top of all that, there were some audio challenges on my end that made editing take longer than usual. Days turned into weeks, weeks became months. You know how it goes.

But it’s finally ready and this was a fun conversation with Katy McDaniel, a professor of History  at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio.. She's also the  editor of Virtual Dark Tourism: Ghost Roads as well as the co-editor of Harry Potter for Nerds II and she co-hosts the podcast,  Potterversity with Geek4 alumn, Emily Strand, which is part of the MuggleNet family, 

You can check out all the back episodes of Potterversity, including the AMAZING episode 15 with yours truly. Or, subscribe on your podcatcher of choice.

Potterversity is also on social media: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. If you have a Potter-based question for Katy and Emily, you can always email them at potterversitypodcast@gmail.com.

You can follow me on Twitter  @mwboyce  and Instagram @mwboyce and follow my website michaelwboyce.com

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I respectfully acknowledge that I live in and work on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Assiniboine, Dakota and Dene Peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.