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Hosted by The DateKeepers · arts · EN · 137 episodes
Welcome to Let’s Have a Renaissance, a podcast about literature and the arts, where where authors, editors, artists, composers, and other creative professionals come together to discuss what it takes to build a sustainable career in the arts in the twenty-first century. If you enjoy the pod, help us keep it going by making a donation: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=HE5EAYSMNWB34&no_recurring=0&item_name=Thank+you+for+keeping+the+creative+community+strong%21+¤cy_code=USD
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Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini is hosted by The DateKeepers. The show has published 137 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "156: Canada Did WHAT to Orphans?, A Conversation with Masha Ryskin & Serge Marchetta" (23 October 2026, 24 minutes), "155: Seeking the Blind Owl, A Digital Exhibition by Donna Conlon" (21 October 2026, 18 minutes), and "154: Can Someone on Food Stamps Buy a Mine?, A Conversation with Heidi Kraay" (19 October 2026, 34 minutes).
Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 25 minutes across 137 episodes.
Booking probability for Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini is 50%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini's contact route on record: verified email.
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The DateKeepers hosts Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini, an arts show with 137 episodes published.
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Episode #156
In this episode, we speak with artists Masha Ryskin and Serge Marchetta about their distinctive approach to collaboration, the lived experiences that inform their work, and the dark secrets about the Canadian orphanage...
Episode #155
In this special episode, photographer, filmmaker, works-on-paper, and installation artist Donna Conlon showcases three of her video projects: Coexistence , in which a troop of ants march across the forest floor...
Episode #154
In this episode, we speak with playwright Heidi Kraay about a harrowing episode in her life in which she embarked on an ill-advised adventure under the influence of a man with the personality of a cult leader, but...
Episode #153
In this episode, we speak with author and editor Charlie fish about founding and running the world’s longest-running online literary magazine dedicated exclusively to fiction, Fiction on the Web . We discuss his...
Episode #152
In this special episode, visual artist Bill Hosterman weaves a fluid and circuitous throughline joining written language, aging, his relationship with his father, linear perspective, impossible objects, and hiking the...
Episode #149
In this special episode, painter and photographer Diane Burko articulates her reimagining of the landscape painting, historically a static and passive genre, as an active vehicle for capturing the poignant tragedy and...
Episode #148
In this episode, we speak with actor, playwright, and director Michael P. Dalberg about his upbringing in rural Wisconsin, how it shaped his sense of time, how time in turn shapes his perception of identity...
Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini
In this episode, we talk about publicists—the good, the bad, and the ugly—from our dual POV as authors and podcasters. Our goal, as always, is to help you make informed decisions about how to navigate your creative...
Episode #146
In this episode, we speak with Jeremy Schraffenberger, poet, author, educator, and editor of The North American Review , about his many deaths and resurrections, what it means to lose a mother, the history of the NAR...
Episode #145
In this episode, we speak with multi-genre writer Acie Clark about finding his voice as a poet, how to curb disillusionment with MFA programs, and why Arkansas isn’t what you think it is (spoiler alert: it’s much...
Episode #144
In this episode, we speak with author, playwright, and cultural critic Gwydion Suilebhan about the cheapening of language in the digital age, the cost of political correctness for the marginalized, the joys of...
Episode #143
In this episode, we speak with visual and performing artist Craig Drennen about his years-long project to resurrect the full cast of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens— widely considered The Bard’s worst play — in various...
Episode #142
In our first year of writing and submitting together, we published in over fifty literary magazines around the world and learned more about the magazine industry than either of us had in our graduate programs (an MA in...
Episode #141
In this episode, we speak with Jennifer Militello about her journey to become the poet laureate of New Hampshire, what she’s doing to bring poetry to the people, her origin story, and her memoir, Knock Wood , winner of...
Episode #140
In this special episode, visual artists Masha Ryskin and Serge Marchetta showcase work that they’ve created individually and as a couple and share the personal narratives and hidden wounds that undergird their...
Episode #139
In this episode, we speak with singer-songwriter and producer John Garrison about lessons learned from a life in music, the cost (to your neighbors) of becoming a professional musician, and whether today’s pop musicians...
Episode #138
In this episode, we speak with author Glenn Kurtz about the art of remaking oneself, thematic throughlines linking his three very different books, and the moral ambiguity of attempting to represent individuals and...
Episode #137
In this episode, we read one of our most popular stories, “Johnny, From Another World,” in which a freelance ground transportation specialist picks up a hitchhiker headed to Jerusalem in hopes of implementing a plan for...
Episode #135
In this episode, we speak with composer Jorge Grossman about his ongoing exploration of the lost the sound world of the Incan Empire, the Janus-facedness of multiculturalism, and why higher education in the West is in...
Episode #134
In this episode, we speak with author Ben Miller about what happens when families fracture, how lives can be pieced back together, the centrality of creativity to healing, and the sacrifices we make to survive. Ben is...
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