Divinations IV: Shells, Learning to Listen, & the Lyric You

“I don’t wanna be alone in my poems.”

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

In this episode, Sandy's shares her "Ecdysis Sonnet," inspired by my poem “Hereafter,” from Episode 3: Lakes, Cosmic Convergence, & the Scientific Sublime, as well as by the Little Oracles lexical fragment “shell.”

We talk about permission to stretch poetic forms, liminality and belonging, human statues, and more. Plus, I share an excerpt from my response poem to Sandy's featured reading. Find the full transcript here.

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