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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The YouTube footage of the big Cleveland reading/conference/shouting match: Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

– My recent appearance on A Mouthful of Air, w/ Mark McGuinness

– The recent episode of Poetry Says ft. Jonathan Farmer

– The recent episode of Poetry Says all about Horace iv.1

– A slew of poems (mentioned, not read!) from my dumb book Midlife

– Catullus ci

– Catullus li

– Sappho 31 (trans. Chris Childers!)

– Archaischer Torso Apollos by Rainer Maria Rilke

– The Unquarried Blue of Those Depths Is All But Blinding by Ashley Anna McHugh

– A Letter by Anthony Hecht

– A se stesso by Giacomo Leopardi

– Antigone by Sophocles, trans. Jean Anouilh

– Translation by Roy Fuller

– Halcyon by Alcman, trans. A. E. Stallings

– Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae by Ernest Dowson

– Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam by Ernest Dowson

– Cold Turkey by Joshua Mehigan

– Back in Your Head by Tegan & Sara

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

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

– Ernie Hilbert

– Joanna Pearson

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed

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