Ep 264: Potatoes, Small and Smaller

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Come see me at the D.C. Arts Center Poetry Series on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 3 p.m. EST. w/ Ned Balbo & Jonathan Fine – I’m going to see The Score Saturday the 26th, in case you want to see it too! – 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! – Hilary Menos’s review of The Soft Black Stars in The Orange County Review of Books – Tar River Poetry is open for submissions! – Literary Matters is also open for submissions! – The Byron Bay Option: On (Not) Giving Up Poetry by Alice Allan – New Verse Review’s Summer Sampler #2 – Boris Dralyuk’s note on Zina’s poem – So This Is Love by Zina Gomez-Liss – Thomas Jardine’s review of So This is Love – Zina’s response to Jardine’s review – The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden – Horace i.37 – Sundowner by Hilary Menos

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 – Alex McKeown

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