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Also, apparently petit-maitre means fop. Fucking French.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Poetry Says Ep 256. Antarctica

– Helena Feder

– The Empathy of Joseph Stalin by Boyd Tonkin

– Against Empathy by Paul Bloom

– The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

– Simon Baron-Cohen

– Henry V (1989)

– Henry V (1944)

– Henry V (1599)

– Batman (1989)

– The Stalin Epigram by Osip Mandelstam

– The new issue of 32 Poems

– Tres Riches Heures du duc de Berry

– Adrian Noble

– Sorrow-Acre by Isak Dinesen

– The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles by A. E. Stallings

– Penelope and the Watching Fire by Shane McCrae

– Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden

– Quincy Lehr and the canon poem

– The Iliad

– The Odyssey

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

– Ernie Hilbert

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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