SLEERICKETS

Ep 114: The Manliness of Men, ft. Derek Mong, Pt. 1


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NB: Here is the poem I thought of when I dumbly confused blasons with ballades.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Anne O. Fisher’s husband, Derek Mong!

– Derek’s book The Identity Thief

– Derek’s essay-review on Whitman, Bly, & Kempf

– Derek’s essay/op-ed about teaching Emily Dickinson to men

– Chris Kempf’s poem about playing Call of Duty

Midnight Arrythmia by Derek Mong

To Assemble This Poem Properly by Derek Mong

At Length Magazine

Jonathan Farmer

Valerie Solanas

Sonnet 130

Men by John Crowe Ransom

Alice’s great AMA episode, w/ roast of SLRKTS

David Baker

What I Lost When I Stopped Crying by Benjamin Perry

Beowulf

The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

Coleman Glenn

Anthony Hecht

Horace

Ethan McGuire

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

Frequent topics:

Joshua Mehigan

Shane McCrae

A. E. Stallings

Ryan Wilson

Austin Allen

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