Evening Oracle is a 2015 poetry collection by Brandon Shimoda, published by Letter Machine Editions.

The Colorado Review observed the center of gravity in the book through its "large blocks of prose—personal communications to and from friends, family, other poets and artists", among them Etel Adnan and Mary Ruefle.

The reviewer specifically pointed out their utility in exposing broader questions of aging, elders, family, and the divide between life and death which permeates much of Shimoda's work as a whole.

"[3] Cha similarly observed Shimoda's "mode of bedtime writing—he casts a dreamy gauze over a poem's emotional centre, obscures the view by eschewing punctuation and mixing vague language and syntax among his concrete images."

It enacts or performs a protestation common to elegy—that of the recognition that death is ineffable, and that the inexpressibility of the depth of one's sincerity makes elegy often seem trite to its writer.