After our end of the year episode, in which we talked about the words we had chosen as our theme for the year, we asked a bunch of Emerging Form guests to tell us their word. We were overwhemed by the response! We had so many great submissions that we decided to make them into a stand alone episode. Here are the contributors, in order of appearance.
Andrea Barrett
Bonnie Tsui
Maria Kelson
Alison Luterman
Alex Hutchinson
Adam Becker
Bil Lepp
Chris Duffy
David Baron
David Epstein
Diana Hill
Kristin Pedemonti
Lisa Gardinier
Michael Kleber Diggs
Sherry Richert Belul
Starre Vartan
Todd Mitchell
Kyra Kopestonsky with us at KOTO radio recording the theme music for Emerging Form. We’re so grateful that we will continue to have a little piece of her on every show.
Lit
by Rosemerry
for Kyra
Tonight when I light the candle
and say your name, I notice
how you have lit me—
with your words, your voice,
the way you clap your hands
at the smallest of joys.
Because you’ve given me
light you’ve gathered from
the darkest of places,
I will never be the same.
Again and again, you have lit me
as if my life is beeswax
and love is the wick and
your courageous life is flame.
