Little Oracles
An oracle for the everyday creative | Whether it's through reading and writing, watching and listening, making, playing, or practicing, we’re digging into what inspires us to aspire, make a mess, and find joy as career and casual creatives.
Episodes
57 episodes
S04:E02 | Reconnect: On Prompts, Cross-Pollination, and Creative Elasticity
In part two of the season-opening three-parter, we're talking about the power of prompts, ways to cross-pollinate your creativity, and how creative elasticity makes you an even mightier maker.Until next time, take care, keep crea...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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8:32
S04:E01 | Retread: On Coming Back to Creativity + Five Fave Creepy Reads
We're back, baby ... back to basics, that is. In this first episode of a season-opening three-parter, we talk about rereading as inspiration mining; leaning into complementary crafts to prime the proverbial creative pump; and five of my ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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15:16
S04:E00 | Season Four Trailer: Remake
Welcome to Little Oracles Season Four: Remake. In this season, we’re returning to our roots, reminding ourselves of what kindles our creative fire, rebelling against inertia and insecurity, rediscovering how to make what we make, and rejoici...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:13
S03:E07 | Divinations VII with Sandra Yannone: Bones, Bergs, & the Oracular Season Finale
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
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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38:04
S03:E06 | Divinations VI with Sandra Yannone: Bolts, Friendly Ghosts, & the Opportunity to Tilt
Welcome back to our sixth (and penultimate!) episode of the Divinations miniseries, featuring an ongoing conversation in poems with poet Sandra Yannone.In this episode, Sandy shares her poem-in-progress, "By Years the Obstacles, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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32:29
S03:E05 | Divinations V with Sandra Yannone: Pockets, Tooth Fairies, & the Surreal Real
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 "E...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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21:32
S03:E04 | Divinations IV with Sandra Yannone: Shells, Learning to Listen, & the Lyric You
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 from
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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35:40
S03:E03 | Divinations III with Sandra Yannone: Lakes, Cosmic Convergence, & the Scientific Sublime
Welcome back to our third (and numerically auspicious, so says Sandy) episode of the Divinations miniseries, featuring an ongoing conversation in poems with poet Sandra Yannone. In this episode, I share my poem "Hereafter,"
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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37:51
S03:E02 | Divinations II with Sandra Yannone: Twine, Maps, & the Meta-Meta
In our second episode of the seven-part Divinations miniseries, poet Sandra Yannone and I dig into her work-in-progress poem, "The Stars on the Snake River," inspired by the Little Oracles lexical fractal
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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31:51
S03:E01 | Divinations I with Sandra Yannone: Welcome to the Miniseries
Our first Divinations miniseries, featuring working poet Sandra Yannone, is here! I’m so thrilled to share the first episode of this seven-part miniseries, which chronicles our collaborative conversation in poems, in which Sandy and I de...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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26:27
S03:E00 | Season Three Trailer: Divinations with Sandra Yannone
It's our first-ever miniseries! Over seven episodes, Little Oracles: Divinations chronicles an ongoing conversation in poems between poet Sandra Yannone and yours truly. We'll debut poems in progress, discuss the creative process, and di...
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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2:45
S02:E23 | Season Finale: A New Kind of Oracle & Year-End ABC Picks
Hard to believe we're closing out Season Two: Play as Practice, but here we are! This season has been such an amazing few months of imagination and experimentation and collaboration, and I'm so grateful to all of you who show up week aft...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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11:58
S02:E22 | Hauntings V: The Halloween Special (feat. Original Soundscape by Kaitlin Bruder)
Remember back in S02:E18, how I said I was haunted by friendship? Well, this episode is the culmination of one of those friendly ha...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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18:07
S02:E21 | Hauntings IV with Shannon Joy Rodgers: The Convergence of Humor and Horror
Welcome to another horror-licious Creative Chat, featuring the inimitable Shannon Joy Rodgers, an Emmy-wining writer, performer, inline skater, director, editor — she kinda does it all. After seeing Shannon’s slyly com...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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36:22
S02:E20 | Hauntings III: Books About Crossing Over (feat. Aoko Matsuda, Gus Moreno, & Jessica Johns)
This week, I’ve got some haunted Little Reviews for all you ghouls and goblins out there! We’re discussing three books about passing through the veil — perfect for this ghastly, ghostly time of year:
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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10:42
S02:E19 | Hauntings II with Kristen O'Neal: The Comfort of Horror
Welcome to a very special horror-forward Creative Chat with the amazing Kristen O'Neal: author of Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, and the co-creator of the
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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34:53
S02:E18 | Hauntings I: A Micro-Series Debut, My Golden Ghouls, & October ABC Picks
It’s October, and for me, that means chill autumn vibes, maybe decorating with a skeleton or two, and cozying up with some of my favorite haunted reads. It also means I’m kicking off a micro-series of episodes, dubbed Hauntings: ...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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14:50
S02:E17 | Creative Chat with John Harper: The Iterative Impulse in Making Art, Playtesting RPGs, & Cooking at Home
Welcome back to another Johnversation, wherein I sit down with graphic artist and game designer (and my partner) John Harper! This season, we're digging into aesthetic and mechanical iteration: John takes us through his process for creat...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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41:44
S02:E16 | Little Reviews: Books About Dissonance (feat. Yoko Ogawa, Maxine Hong Kingston, & Rachel Cusk)
It's Little Reviews time, and today we're talking about dissonance — you know, that feeling of dissolution from the self; from memories; even from reality. I've got three books on the roll today:
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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13:22
S02:E15 | The Hot Takes Episode: The Inspiration Fallacy & I’m Your Bucklebury
Pass the popcorn, because it's time for some hot takes! While these takes might not cause any cultural schisms, they nonetheless represent a couple of convictions I hold about creativity and creative practice, as illustrated by c...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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13:00
S02:E14 | Creative Chat with Sabrina Sims: Zine Culture, Live Coding, Poetry Games, & the DIY Philosophy
Welcome to another Creative Chat, featuring a true Renaissance woman: artist and game designer Sabrina Sims. As a New York–based experimental media artist, Sabrina works across genre and media, including zine-making, fiber arts, installa...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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48:58
S02:E13 | Little Reviews: Books Like the Last Days of Summer (feat. Nina LaCour, Lorrie Moore, & Taylor Jenkins Reid)
It's time for some Little Reviews, featuring four books steeped in nostalgia and that late-summer feeling of looking back. Yerba Buena by Nina LaCou...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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14:32
S02:E12 | The Critical Conceit: Divine Creativity, Compliment Sandwiches, & September ABC Picks
What do Transcendentalism, the goddess Athena, and compliment sandwiches have in common? Find out in this episode about the duality of the critic (as informed by 19th-century journalist Margaret Fuller), the gravity of practice, and the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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14:59
S02:E11 | Creative Chat with Nychelle Schneider: Painting Worlds, Writing Through Trauma, and Creating in Community
It's time for another Creative Chat, this time with one of the kindest, most thoughtful people I've ever met: writer and game developer Nychelle Schneider. Nychelle and I sat down for a wonderful conversation about her creative backstory...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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40:04
S02:E10 | Little Reviews: Books About Fallout (feat. Joy Williams, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Nona Fernández, and Virginia Woolf)
It's Little Reviews time, and today we're talking about fallout: the space of personal crises in post-crucible societies. I've got four books on the docket, all of them book club picks:
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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15:25