Sophie Strand

Episode 17 August 21, 2021 01:33:28
Sophie Strand
Apricot Jam
Sophie Strand

Aug 21 2021 | 01:33:28

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Show Notes

Bio: 

Sophie Strand is a poet, historical-fiction writer, and essayist based in the Hudson Valley with a focus on the intersection of spirituality and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming from Inner Traditions. She has three chapbooks: Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan) Her writing has been published by The Dark Mountain Project, www.poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way Magazine, Creatrix Magazine, and Your Impossible Voice. And you can continue to follow her work and poetry on Facebook or Instagram: cosmogyny. 

 
What daily practice do you currently find most nourishing?
 
Every morning I call on every being - ancestor, plant, mushroom, type of stone, animal, geological formation, river, bird, invasive species, weather system - in a twenty mile radius of my home. I gather around me the beings that "constitute" me so that when I make decisions throughout my day I know my choices include more than just the "fiction" of an individual me. 
 
What are you reading? As much or as little as you would like to share.
The list is insane. But currently I am enjoying a return to Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality paired with Bayo Akomolafe's These Wilds Beyond Our Fences. 
 

Big thanks to our sponsor The Apricot Grove! 

Eternal gratitude to Bart Matthews for our amazing intro music!
 
Check out our FB page if you roll like that.
 
For books!
 
https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037

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