23 May 2020

Eco Poetics / Ecopoetics

Thinking about ecopoetics all the time, as we do now, I came upon this from Stephanie Strickland's collected works, How the Universe Is Made. I was struck still by the conflation of language, string data and enormous amounts of information with a glacier. From her V: Wavetercets / Losing L'Una (which is itself a reformulation of V: Waveson.nets / Losing L'Una) are tercets 223 and 224:

223
Words of others.
Lists and strings are fluid data structures.
The Glacier calving, enormous roar 
224
into a gray silent sea,
turquoise
lining.


Does a calving glacier destroy information?
I'll give that a gray, but not silent, yup.

14 May 2020

"Delphi" on Missing Witches' Beltane Episode

I sent my old poem "Delphi," about Vestal Virgins, to Risa and Amy at Missing Witches and they clapped it on the end of their Beltane May Day episode. Nice to have it in a magic feminist realm, though it was published long ago on a site.... Check out the episode here--and visit the fantastic back catalog. Missing Witches are doing the goddess' work.