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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Out of Order by Alexis Sears

– Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson

– When Defending Your Writing Becomes Defending Yourself by Matthew Salesses

– Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Ungrateful Black Writer by Saeed Jones

– Ethan’s excellent graphs of the last 10 winners of 10 big poetry prizes

– Send your literary conference blind items to SLEERICKETS [at] GMAIL [dot] COM !

– Secret Show Ep 94. Who’s Winning the Poetry Prizes?

– The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat

– MFA vs. POC by Junot Diaz

– Stephanie Macias

– The Humpty Dance by Digital Underground

– Wyatt Prunty

– Caki Wilkinson

– Jonathan Heinen

– Tim Robinson

– There There by Tommy Orange

– Questlove

– VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

– SLEERICKETS Ep 5: Ars Foetica

– Jerry Saltz

– Curvy Wife Guy

– Widespread Bias Found in Home Appraisals by Debra Kamin

– Sherman Alexie’s introduction to the 2015 Best American Poetry

– The Unquiet Grave

– Daniel Handler

– Jacqueline Woodson

– Citizen by Claudia Rankine

– Pretendians

– Heartbreak Ghazal by Alexis Sears

– MFA Draft

– Do ghazals work in English? by Victoria Moul

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