Advice From an Unknown Poet

What are the things that have turned out to be helpful for you?

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Eileen Myles

Poetry Says ep 212. with Paul Kane

Ronin (1998)

Elijah’s podcast Versecraft

Alice’s article about envy

Scared Shitless by Merlin Mann

Spiderman pointing at Spiderman

HEAT

SLEERICKETS

Tell me about a poet you admire.

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Lucille Clifton

won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton

The Ern Malley hoax

Pam Brown‘s book click here for what we do

The ALS gold medal

Poetry Says episodes with Pam: 104 (underprepared) and 175 (better prepared)

The satin bowerbird

Rae Armantrout

How do you promote your poetry and put yourself out there without going insane?

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Alice’s Substack

Alice’s book The Empty Show

The AWP conference

Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

At Length

What’s the point of poetry?

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Timothée Chalamet’s statement on opera and ballet

Ep 01. Fear

Asphodel, that Greeny Flower by William Carlos Williams

Poetry Says Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don’t think I love poetry.”

On Convention by Alan Shapiro

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop

Jane Kenyon

How do you manage your obligations to the people who appear in your poems?

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The Dolphin by Robert Lowell

Alice’s poem Bad Boys for Life

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott

The Hug by Thom Gunn

Can Love Last? by Stephen A. Mitchell

How to Be a Family by Dan Kois

The Night of the Gun by David Carr

Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by Peta Leith

Jonathan’s review of the Larkin biography

Jonathan’s review of Patricia Lockwood

How do you find your people?

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Bonny Cassidy

Marrickville by Louise Carter

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott

Jonathan’s essay “A Giving of the Self”: on Thom Gunn and Courtliness

Donald Hall

Melinda Bufton

The Alderman

Pam Brown

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Why do you have such a strong need to be productive?

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Merlin Mann

The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris

Getting Things Done by David Allen

The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Yelling at clouds (Alice on love hearts)

Which pieces of writing advice get on your nerves?

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On Writing by Stephen King

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Scrivener

The Artists Way by Julia Cameron

Eileen Myles

Ep 232: Mr Bones, ft. Shane McCrae

Joshua Mehigan

George Oppen

SLEERICKETS group chat!

Scared Shitless by Merlin Mann

How should we learn poetry?

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Siegfried Sassoon

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Open Yale Courses’ Modern Poetry taught by Langdon Hammer

Modern & Contemporary American Poetry taught by Al Filreis

The Orange by Wendy Cope

Asphodel that Greeny Flower by William Carlos Williams

Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats

In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)

If you could clear away all the striving and the desire for recognition, what would you want to make in your poems?

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Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth

The Other Side of Daylight by David Brooks

SLEERICKETS Ep 178: All the Supposedly Wonderful Poetry

Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler

Golden Repair by Louise Carter