All Soul's Day Poetries and Herbals
poetics / talks / pathways
with Alana Siegel, Deirdre Larkin, and Kodi Fabricant
Alana will deliver a poem. Deirdre will give a talk. Kodi will lead a meditation.
Deirdre Larkin, Talk: “Dark Green: Plants as agents of power, prophecy, and protection at the boundaries between worlds.”
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Alana Siegel is a poet living in Upstate New York. Her full-length collection of poetry, Archipelago, is published by Station Hill Press. In 2019, she completed a Three Year Retreat in Vajrayana Buddhism at Pema Osel Ling. In 2023, she received a NYSCA Rural and Traditional Arts grant to write, direct and act in Persephone’s Dream, a 12 hour play and meditation weaving together agricultural and theatrical practices drawn from Noh Theater, The Patrons of the Orders of Husbandry, and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Recent prose and essays can be found in editions of The Swan. This fall, for the Khyentse Foundation, she is teaching a poetry workshop centered around Sky and Speech. Please come talk to her if you are interested.
Deirdre Larkin is an horticulturist and historian of plants, with a special interest in their use in seasonal and ceremonial magic and ritual. Formerly in charge of the gardens of the Met Cloisters in Northern Manhattan, she was the originator and chief contributor to The Medieval Garden Enclosed, now archived on the Museum website at https://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/ She now gardens, lectures, and teaches upstate in Delaware County, New York, in the Western Catskills.
Kodi Fabricant was born and raised in South Florida. She is an artist, writer, and energy worker certified in Spiritual Response Therapy and Reiki. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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