#50 - Lisa Marie Basile, Word Witch
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Marie Basile is a poet, essayist and editor who focuses on witchcraft, shadow work, and using the power of language to heal from trauma. She's author of the non-fiction book Light Magic for Dark Times: More Than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis and The Magical Writing Grimoire: Use the Word as Your Wand, for Magic, Manifestation, and Ritual which is out this month. She is also the founder and creative director of Luna Luna Magazine, an editor at Ingram’s poetry site Little Infinite, and co-host of the podcast, AstroLushes, which intersects astrology, literature, wellness, and culture. She’s written several books of a poetry, and the collection, NYMPHOLEPSY, which she co-authored was a finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards. She’s also been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and her essays and other work can be found in such places as The New York Times, Bust, Self, Refinery 29 and many more.
On this episode, Lisa discusses how to work with the shadow, rituals for crisis, and why poetry is in fact magic.
Pam also discusses the power of poetry in dark times, and answers a listener question about how to boost communication confidence.
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