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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The excellent Versecraft episode Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero

– Jason Gray’s new poetry podcast, Drunk as Poet on Payday

– ICYMI: My recent appearance on A Mouthful of Air

– Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

– The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

– Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

– The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

– A lot of other books and poems

– The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

– A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

– The Last Messiah by Peter Zapffe

– Teeth by Matt Cardin

– Prometheus (2012)

– The Boys (2019)

– Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths by Bernard Evslin

– The God Who Loves You by Carl Dennis

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