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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