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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Fugitive/Refuge by Philip Metres

– The ALSCW Conference, where I’ll be reading with Mary Jo Salter and Christopher Childers

– The Will to Believe by William James

– 90 North by Randall Jarrell

– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan

– My poem Creed for Atheists

– Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens

– The Cleveland reading

– White Noise by Emma Cline

– My sight, which was my power, now blurs by Arseny Tarkovsky, trans. Philip Metres

– Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction by Wallace Stevens

– A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens

– The Auroras of Autumn by Wallace Stevens

– Jesus and the woman taken in adultery

– Padraig O Tuama

– St. John Chrysostrom

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