Ep 256: The Giant Crab

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review! – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now! – Minor Tiresias on Cesar Vallejo – In Future Posts on Lana Del Ray – The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham – The Optimists by Brian Platzer – The End of the Affair by Graham Greene – In This Novel, It’s the Student Who Shapes the Teacher’s Life by Jean Hanff Korelitz – The Kinda Sorta Real-Life Larry (My memory was slightly inaccurate. It appears this modest Wikipedia page would have existed even if Maugham hadn’t written a book kinda sorta about this guy.) – Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty – The clip in question from the Stone–Parker lecture

Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan – Shane McCrae – A. E. Stallings – Ryan Wilson – Morri Creech – Austin Allen –Jonathan Farmer – Zara Raab – Amit Majmudar – Ethan McGuire – Coleman Glenn – Chris Childers – Alexis Sears – JP Gritton – Alex Pepple – Ernie Hilbert – Joanna Pearson – MattWall – Steve Knepper – Helena Feder – David Yezzi – Victoria Moul – Katie Dozier & Tim Green – George David Clark – Tristram Fane Saunders – Philip Metres – Helena Feder – Nida Sophasarun

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer

Alice: In Future Posts Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith