In this final installment of the season-opening three-parter, we look at personal obligation (in a good way) and how to say goodbye to creative stasis with a handful of stagnancy-busting strategies (and even some creative prompts!). ...

In this spontaneous emergency episode in response to the 2024 U.S. election, I'm calling out your creative spirit: in times like these, we need mourners, we need menders, we need makers. We need your creative revolution.We'll res...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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, ...

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...

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

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,"

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: 

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

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: ...

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...

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: 

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...

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...

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...

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 ...