Thousand Tales Podcast: Recent Episodes
Conor Logan
We can't all be famous, but we all certainly have something unique and special about us. This podcast, hosted by Dr. Conor Logan, explores the people around his area of Southern California, exposing the 'extra' that should be thought of before 'ordinary.'
Conor Logan and his co-host, Ron Fullerton, welcome Louise Cathcart, Joan Day, and Marcia Wingard into the studio for a sit-down interview, poetry reading, and more!
Jan Wesley is our special reader for the May 11th, 2022 poetry reading at the Newbury Park library.
Ann Buxie is the featured reader for our March poetry reading of the Ventura County Poetry Project at the Newbury Park Library branch. Enjoy!
Join us for a great reading with our special guest:
David Oliveira was born in California’s San Joaquin Valley. He was a long time resident of Santa Barbara, California, where he was publisher and editor of Mille Grazie Press. He was a founding editor of Solo, a national journal of poetry, and founded the long-running Santa Barbara Poetry Series. In 2000, he was named Santa Barbara’s millennium poet laureate.
Oliveira has published widely, including two poetry collections, A Little Travel Story and As Everyone Goes, with a third forthcoming in 2022, Still Life with Coffee. His poems are featured in several important anthologies, including: How Much Earth: the Fresno Poets, which he co-edited; California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present; and The Gávea-Brown Book of Portuguese-American Poetry. He lives and writes on the banks of the Mekong River near Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Nancy-Jean Pément is from the Outaouais region of Québec where she was raised in a bi-racial, bilingual, and multicultural family.
Her poems have been published in literary magazines in the US and in Canada. Her poem, Migration, was a finalist for the 2014 Common Good Books poetry contest. In 2015, her piece, PHL>YOW, was the Editor’s Choice for Poem of the Year in ARC Poetry Magazine.
In 2018-2019, in collaboration with the California Museum of Art, Thousand Oaks (CMATO) and the painter, Kevin Sloan, she curated ekphrastic poetry by local poets to accompany the exhibit A Collection of Rarities. Nancy’s poem Snowperson Wonders at What is Left of the World inspired by Kevin’s painting, The Inevitability of Warmth, was exhibited at the museum.
Most recently, her poems appear in La fille de Léonard: What québécois cultural sovereignty taught me about working with historically marginalized students, a chapter in the book, Campus Service Workers Supporting First-Generation Students published by Routledge in November 2021.
Currently, she is working on a study of racial, ethnic, political-linguistic, and citizenship identities to be published in the peer-reviewed journal, Genealogy. Nancy teaches in the Graduate School of Education at CSU Channel Islands, and in the Doctor of Education program at CLU.
The Logan brothers: Ron, Conor, Michael, and Matthew.... get together to play a jam after years.
Scott Cooper and Conor Logan bring you a special 2-person jazzier Covid Smile Jam. A chill jammer....
Peg Quinn does a special reading for the Ventura County Poetry Project. You can buy her book 'Mother Lode' from Gun Powder Press, or Amazon.
The Ventura County Poetry Project's Newbury Park branch, hosted by yours truly and Ron Fullerton, brings Jennifer Kelley to the front of the stage for a special reading, followed by some fantastic open mic poets.
Someone in the neighborhood called the cops on us... but even the 5.0 could see the goodness in the vibe on this night and let the music reign!
The Covid Smile Jam takes to the driveway again...... Dead, Allman Brothers, Hall & Oates, Ozzy, The Police, and Moana! Lots of good stuff to listen to :-)
Conor Logan interviews Sam Aleksanyan from the Kind Writers organization to discuss old stomping grounds, differences in new places, writing, publishing, and more. Enjoy!
Maura Dawgert and Conor Logan went to high school together, and found their ways west independently, and then their ways to the same medicine. Listen to this great conversation about moving west, experiencing new ways of living, and becoming Doctors of Chinese Medicine.
Jayden Secor joins the podcast to play a tune and talk about music, 'the jam', baseball, and family. Enjoy this great interview with a special man... look him up @jaydensecormusic on Spotify as well.
Conor Logan talks from across the world with Ken Jones, formerly of Ventura County. Having moved recently back to his home locale in England, Ken talks of living in Ventura, teaching, chemistry chats with passengers, and (of course) poetry.
This is another on-site interview for The Thousand Tales podcast. This time we're at the factory of Honeydew Pillows, interview its owner Jonathan Kunke. Join host Conor Logan for a chat about pillows, acting, college, and everything in between. Bare with the audio as we were on-site for this interview, and people are working in the background. Enjoy!
This is the dress rehearsal audio for the December 5th BIG EVENT, the Covid Smile Jam BENEFIT at the Thousand Oaks Teen Center. Listen in for a nice set of music while you go for a walk or work around the house. Enjoy!
The Covid Smile Jam players have been bringing some free cheer to the SunTree neighborhood since the end of March.... this night was no different. A great collection of songs and a new jammer in the mix, Mimi Mayer, on harmonica.
Conor Logan sits down with Glenn Noyes of Dos Vientos to talk about selling everything from shoes to guitars, pyrotechnics, collecting drums, and skiing accidents. Enjoy!
The Thousand Tales Podcast's host, Conor Logan, also has been hosting The Covid Smile Jam since the end of March. It's a weekly neighborhood jam session of local musicians simply coming together to play tunes for the neighborhood.
Recorded live in Ryan's home, this podcast takes place while processing an elk leg from his recent hunting trip to Arizona. We discuss how he became interested in hunting, how cooking changes when you're dealing with wild meat, the tools and techniques, all with a little life thrown in here and there. Enjoy!
Episode 3 focuses on lifetime local Thaddeus Francis. Stories of how the neighborhood used to be when the Conejo Valley had less than half today's population, basketball memories, and more.
Conor Logan sits down with Joe Norris, fellow music lover and neighbor in the Suntree neighborhood of Newbury Park.
The first Thousand Tales Podcast Episode focuses on my neighbor Costa. A Greek, raised in The Middle East, and then moving to Ventura, CA. Stories of importing a family Chevy, how he met his wife, his proud family history, and more. Enjoy this great chat with Costa!