On the 8/7/24 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:

Mary B. Moore discusses the conceptual framework of her forthcoming poetry book Amanda Chimera. The collection is about a twin who passed in utero and spends her posthumous life haunting her living twin. Moore shares the title poem “Amanda Chimera” from her next publication. She then pays respect to the recently passed Sandra McPherson and recounts some UC Davis memories from her time in grad school. Cody Duncan is the next guest, and he shares some of his experience working in law, opening his own law firm, and moving back to California to work in tech law. He discusses how his background in music production and coding has shaped his hot takes on Gen AI, IP, and sampling. He raises a point that the legislative protection of intellectual property may restrict potential production and further creative innovations. He also describes the dystopian novel he is working on, The Pane Constant. The episode concludes with Davis artist Thea Johnson sharing some details from her upcoming showcase at the John Natsoulas Gallery.

Mary B. Moore’s forthcoming poetry collection Amanda Chimera, the Arthur Smith Poetry Prize winner, will be out in 2025 from Madville Publishing. Her latest poetry book is Dear If, published by Orison Books in 2022. Poems are forthcoming in POETRY, Artemis and Cider Press Review, and appear lately in Catamaran, Birmingham Poetry Review (BPR), NELLE, Nimrod, Poetic Viva, and South Dakota Review. She received BPR’s 2023 Collins Prize; NELLE’s 2019 Three Sisters Award; several Finalist Awards from Terrain, and the Second Place award in Nimrod’s 2017 Pablo Neruda Prize. Moore is a native Californian who moved to West Virginia to teach at Marshall University. She has a Ph.D. from the University of California Davis in Renaissance literature.

A UC Davis Alumni and former KDVS DJ, Cody Duncan studied at Duke Law where he helped launch a nonprofit privacy research organization, the Triangle Privacy Research Hub, in Durham, North Carolina, before going on to spend eight years working in-house at tech companies, including Lyft, and a global health nonprofit. Most recently, he launched his own law practice, C. Duncan Law, and began writing a dystopian detective novel.

Thea Hudson, an oil painter and multimedia artist, voraciously invents new folkloric narratives populated with fantastical figures. In her two-person exhibition with Genevieve Ryan, Friends are Everywhere, they explore themes of connectedness and platonic love, venturing hand in hand through interactive video art, stained glass, and more with whimsical intensity. Thea and Genevieve both graduated from UC Davis, in 2022 and 2021 respectively

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