Divinations V: Pockets, Tooth Fairies, & the Surreal Real

“Sometimes you click the box shut, and sometimes you end with a question.”

Welcome back to our fifth episode of the Divinations miniseries, featuring an ongoing conversation in poems with poet Sandra Yannone.

In this episode, I read my poem-in-progress, "Articles of Incorporation," inspired by Sandy's "Ecdysis Sonnet" from Episode 4: Shells, Learning to Listen, & the Lyric You, as well as by the Little Oracles lexical fragment “pocket.”

We talk about transubstantiation and the corporate body, secret sonnets and interrogative endings, randomized Dads, and more. Plus, Sandy shares an excerpt from her response poem to my featured reading — the last one she'll share in the miniseries, debuting in Episode 6, which drops December 12. Read along with the full transcript here.

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