Welcome to Season 2 of Talkin' Story. In this first episode, "Writing in Place", Oceana sits down with author/poet Lisbeth White in a conversational ramble through writing grounded in relationship to the Earth, and what impact that can have on our individual and collective liberation.

Lisbeth White is an enchantivist writer based in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of American Sycamore (Perugia Press, 2022), and co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power (North Atlantic Books, 2023).

Her nonfiction chapbook, A Most Natural Thing: An Elemental Memoir (Red Mare Press, 2025), won The Master’s Review Open Chapbook contest.

Lisbeth has received support for her work from Artist Trust, VONA, Callaloo, Tin House, Roots.Wounds.Words., The Watering Hole, and Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference.

She is a 2025 Periplus fellow and is at work on her first novel.

Lisbeth's website:

http://www.lisbethwrites.com

Lisbeth's socials:

IG: @earthmaven,

Bluesky:@earthmaven.bsky.social

Dr. Daneil Black HBCU Commencement Address

https://youtu.be/F25OAzSzhfM?si=wm_zMrbKirbsxerK

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Music Credits, Episode 1:

Aguas de Cordillera, Paramúcura y Chirigüe

Effort, Katori Walker

höstlöv, bomull

månskensvals, bomull

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Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA.

https://well-organized.org/

Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund.

If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast.

Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.