Show Notes
NB: Sideways was actually co-written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne.
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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! – Poems Beautiful and Useful, ed. Victoria Moul – To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace – Greater Metropolitan Shatador, ft. Victoria Moul – The Matrix (1999) – Jenny, the Halloween Spy by Lillie Patterson – The Statue of Responsibility (the one about Man’s Search for Meaning) – The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker – Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham – The Optimists by Brian Platzer – The Mattering Instinct by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein – The Last Messiah by Peter Zapffe – The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti – Inferno I, 32 by Jorge Luis Borges – Sideways (2004) – The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche – Big in Romania, ft. Versecraft (the one where Elijah talks with Alice about The Denial of Death) – St. Judas by James Wright – The Mountain Pass, ft. Philip Metres, Part 1 & Part 2 – Tichborne’s Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne – Happy were he could finish forth his fate by Robert Devereaux – Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope – Ars Poetica by Horace – Epode ii by Horace – The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden – Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
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 – Matt Wall – 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 Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts Brian: @BPlatzer Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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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.