NB: Oh man, I should have clarified this during the episode, but the ex-girlfriend in the poem is NOT the ex-girlfriend in the anecdote. Different exes. Jesus Christ, the fact that this is a note is even necessary. As James Wright once observed while lying in a hammock at William Duffy’s farm in Pine Island, Minnesota…

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– My book Midlife now exists.

– My Rattlecast thing went well, I think?

– Anseo by Paul Muldoon

– Promises of Gold by Jose Olivarez

– The Poetry Gods

– World Too Loud to Hear by Stephen Kampa

– Cracks in the Invisible by Stephen Kampa

– Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot

– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

– Il Estraneo by Ryan Wilson (no copy online, so this is a link to Brian Brodeur’s essay that discusses it)

– Authority by Ryan Wilson

– My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

– Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning

– Saint Worm by Hailey Leithauser

– Able Muse

– The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse ed. & trans. Christopher Childers

– Otto Jespersen

– The Nature of Things Fragile by Peter Vertacnik

– Modern Love, Ancient War by William Logan

– The Nickname by Stephen Kampa (no copy online, appears in Cracks in the Invisible)

– Vellum by Chelsea Woodard

– The Best by MBS

Frequent topics:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

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

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Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed