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Season II, episode III of Half Mystic Radio features Lyd Havens' poems "Unruly" and "206 Days Later", and Marla Bendini's song "Blossom". This season hosted by special guest Stephanie Dogfoot. #halfmysticspeaksHalf Mystic is an independent publishing house, literary journal, radio show, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. You can find the full show notes, including the text of the two pieces featured in this episode, at: http://halfmystic.com/blog/hmr-ii-iiiLyd Havens is a poet currently living in Boise, Idaho. Their work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Shallow Ends, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others. They are the author of the chapbook I Gave Birth to All the Ghosts Here (Nostrovia! Press, 2018), the winner of the 2018 ellipsis… Poetry Prize, and a 2019 finalist for the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. Lyd is currently a senior at Boise State University, where they will graduate with a BFA in Creative Writing in 2021.Marla Bendini is a transgender, non-binary visual and performance artist, club personality, musician, pole and aerial artist based in Singapore. Her trans identity and practice are profoundly interrelated. She created her persona in 2007 as an amalgamation between art and life, to explore multiple liminal identities and fluidity in perspectives. It was also to explore how the trans body allows one to occupy a new artistic space and challenge current understandings of identity.