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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Wolf Trees by Katie Hartsock

– The Old and the New by Katie Hartsock

– Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot

– Kafka and His Precursors by Jorge Luis Borges

– An Organ of Extreme Perfection & Another Achilles (what has two thumbs and likes…)

– The Tradition by Jericho Brown

– Duplex by Jericho Brown

– Invention (essay on the duplex form) by Jericho Brown

– Ep 118: Obvious Boobies, ft. Ashley Anna McHugh

– Paradelle for Susan by Billy Collins

– Proofs and Theories by Louise Gluck

– Motherhood by Cecily Park

– The Circe / Mud Poems by Margaret Atwood

– The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

– Punishment by Seamus Heaney

– Eurydice by Caroline Duffy

– The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

– Agamemnon by Aeschylus

– The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus

– Hamlet by William Shakespeare

– The Iliad by Homer

– The Aeneid by Virgil

– The Metamorphoses by Ovid

– The Trojan Women by Euripides

– The Trojan Women by Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno

– Greeking Out

– Horace & Friends by Victoria Moul

– Alcestis by Euripides

– Richard Feynman

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