Welcome back to our final episode of the Divinations miniseries, featuring an ongoing conversation in poems with poet Sandra Yannone. I'm sharing my poem-in-progress, "Sortition," inspired by Sandy's poem from Episode 6, and by the Little Oracles poetic fragment "bone," part of the original Little Oracles multimedia digital installation at www.littleoracles.com/exhibit.
We talk about skeletal neomorphs and personal specters, jury duty in 6th-century Athens, lexical campfires, and more, and reflect on the project as a whole. Plus, Sandy shares another special reading from her upcoming collection, The Glass Studio: the truly beautiful "Oracle," a perfect series send-off.
This is our final episode of 2023; thank you all for being here! While we're on break, you can find every Little Oracles episode in the archive. Happy New Year, and 'til next time, as always: take care, keep creating, and stay divine! <3
Resources
- Divinations | I: Welcome to the Miniseries; II: Twine, Maps, & the Meta-Meta; III: Lakes, Cosmic Convergence, & the Scientific Sublime; IV: Shells, Learning to Listen, & the Lyric You; V: Pockets, Tooth Fairies, & the Surreal Real; VI: Bolts, Friendly Ghosts, & the Opportunity to Tilt
- Little Oracles digital installation | bone, my chosen fragment
- Sandy's links | www.sandrayannone.com; Boats for Women; Salmon Poetry
- Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry | Facebook & YouTube
- References | "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound; "Whereas" by Layli Long Soldier (full collection); Lakota Nation vs. the United States (film by Laura Tomaselli); Segues: A Correspondence in Poetry by William Stafford & Marvin Bell; Lucie Brock-B
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