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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Poetry Says Ep 256. Antarctica

– Ars Poetica by Horace

– The inaugural issue of New Verse Review (ft. work by Zara, Victoria, Michael, Marly, Katie, JMW (da-da-dummmm), Ethan, Elijah, Amit, and Maryann Corbett, among many others!)

– The Iliad by Homer

– The Aeneid by Virgil

– The Metamorphoses by Ovid

– Their Lonely Betters by W. H. Auden

– Horace iii.25 (the one Elijah says is atypical)

– Horace i.11

– Burton Raffel

– Christopher Smart

– David Ferry

– The Greeks and the Irrational by E. R. Dodd

– The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

– Ion by Plato

– The Bacchae by Euripides

– The Oresteia by Aeschylus

– Charles Baudelaire

– T. S. Eliot

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