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Ep 162: The Train There’s No Getting Off, ft. Derek Mong
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:
– When the Earth Flies into the Sun by Derek Mong
– At Length magazine
– 32 Poems No 43. Summer 2024
– There by Christopher Childers
– I Too Had a Childhood by Eleanor Stanford
– One of two poems of mine in the new 32 Poems
– The part in Tree of Life where (among other things) Jessica Chastain flies
– Marjorie Perloff’s review of The Birthday Letters
– The Two Ariels: The (Re)making of the Sylvia Plath Canon by Marjorie Perloff
– Ariel by Sylvia Plath
– Ariel: The Restored Edition
– Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
– Sylvia (2003)
– Pike by Ted Hughes
– Sharon Olds
– Anne Sexton
– Deborah Landau
– Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
– Adrienne Rich
– Helen Vendler
– Daddy by Sylvia Plath
– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
– Nick and the Candlestick by Sylvia Plath
– A Secret by Sylvia Plath
– You’re by Sylvia Plath
– William Heyen
– Swoop by Hailey Leithauser
– Transformations by Anne Sexton
– Kevin Young
– Life Studies by Robert Lowell
– Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell
– 13 Reasons Why (2017)
– Wintering by Sylvia Plath
– A rough approximation of a store in my town
– Purdah by Sylvia Plath
– Sheep in Fog by Sylvia Plath
– Honey’s Dead by The Jesus and Mary Chain
– Shaken Baby Syndrome
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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By Matthew Buckley Smith
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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:
– When the Earth Flies into the Sun by Derek Mong
– At Length magazine
– 32 Poems No 43. Summer 2024
– There by Christopher Childers
– I Too Had a Childhood by Eleanor Stanford
– One of two poems of mine in the new 32 Poems
– The part in Tree of Life where (among other things) Jessica Chastain flies
– Marjorie Perloff’s review of The Birthday Letters
– The Two Ariels: The (Re)making of the Sylvia Plath Canon by Marjorie Perloff
– Ariel by Sylvia Plath
– Ariel: The Restored Edition
– Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
– Sylvia (2003)
– Pike by Ted Hughes
– Sharon Olds
– Anne Sexton
– Deborah Landau
– Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
– Adrienne Rich
– Helen Vendler
– Daddy by Sylvia Plath
– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
– Nick and the Candlestick by Sylvia Plath
– A Secret by Sylvia Plath
– You’re by Sylvia Plath
– William Heyen
– Swoop by Hailey Leithauser
– Transformations by Anne Sexton
– Kevin Young
– Life Studies by Robert Lowell
– Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell
– 13 Reasons Why (2017)
– Wintering by Sylvia Plath
– A rough approximation of a store in my town
– Purdah by Sylvia Plath
– Sheep in Fog by Sylvia Plath
– Honey’s Dead by The Jesus and Mary Chain
– Shaken Baby Syndrome
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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