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Ep 161: Handbook for the Recently Deceased Poet
NB3: Check out former guest Victoria Moul’s criticism of this episode here!
NB2: Speaking of Whoreywood, check out Matt Wall’s bananas unfinished memoir of making movies in Hollywood.
NB1: It turns out there is in fact some record of Heraclitus the poet, outside of Callimachus’ poem, but not much.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Material Witness: Remembering an Abiding Debt to Timothy Murphy by Maryann Corbett
– Wildfire Season by Maryann Corbett
– Timothy Murphy
– Maryann Corbett
– Alan Sullivan
– Eratosphere
– Aaron Poochigian
– Alex Pepple
– Richard Wilbur
– Quincy Lehr
– Lin-Manuel Miranda
– Champagne Sharks
– The West Wing
– Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
– Breakfast at Brennan’s by Timothy Murphy
– Prison Chaplain by Timothy Murphy
– The Failure by Timothy Murphy
– The Dead Poet by Timothy Murphy
– The Drowned Immortal by Timothy Murphy
– Only Poems
– Paging Dr. Platzmouth
– The Stars Shine Without Me by Matt Cardin
– Chris Childers
– The Dowser’s Ear by Wilmer Mills (the poem, I think, that Stallings read in memory of Mills at the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference)
– Heraclitus by William Johnson Cory
– Rachel Wetzsteon
– Hart Crane
– Jay Wright
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
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NB3: Check out former guest Victoria Moul’s criticism of this episode here!
NB2: Speaking of Whoreywood, check out Matt Wall’s bananas unfinished memoir of making movies in Hollywood.
NB1: It turns out there is in fact some record of Heraclitus the poet, outside of Callimachus’ poem, but not much.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Material Witness: Remembering an Abiding Debt to Timothy Murphy by Maryann Corbett
– Wildfire Season by Maryann Corbett
– Timothy Murphy
– Maryann Corbett
– Alan Sullivan
– Eratosphere
– Aaron Poochigian
– Alex Pepple
– Richard Wilbur
– Quincy Lehr
– Lin-Manuel Miranda
– Champagne Sharks
– The West Wing
– Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
– Breakfast at Brennan’s by Timothy Murphy
– Prison Chaplain by Timothy Murphy
– The Failure by Timothy Murphy
– The Dead Poet by Timothy Murphy
– The Drowned Immortal by Timothy Murphy
– Only Poems
– Paging Dr. Platzmouth
– The Stars Shine Without Me by Matt Cardin
– Chris Childers
– The Dowser’s Ear by Wilmer Mills (the poem, I think, that Stallings read in memory of Mills at the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference)
– Heraclitus by William Johnson Cory
– Rachel Wetzsteon
– Hart Crane
– Jay Wright
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
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