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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
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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! – Join the Zoom conversation I’m having with Jimmy Pappas this Monday, June 8, at 7:00 p.m. US Eastern: Poems Against Hope Zina Gomez-Liss Can Art Teach? by David S. Wallace Michel de Montaigne The Pitt Suits Anthony Lane J. M. Coetzee A Few Words OnImproving Your Life Through the Great Books by Ethan McGuire
Secret show notes Ep 246: A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper Why Don't People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do They Like? by Daniel Cowper Night by Elie Wiesel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois Plato's Republic Giovanni’s Room and Notes of aNative Son by James Baldwin Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
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
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NB: Right, right, right, actually “nights” and “ignites” don’t make a true rhyme but rather an identical rhyme.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
NB: Yes, yes, yes, of course I meant to mention Putin. Putin also, yes.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.