SLEERICKETS

Ep 166: Three Bird Mafia, ft. Jonathan Farmer


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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Cameron’s opening reading for the Critical Path Symposium (w/ Elijah, too!) October 24 at 11:00 a.m. US Eastern

Welcome Session (Thu 10/24)                    https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/99723229304?pwd=8PxJRe3eaLx9SV3BzZOTyFUbhw99qN.1

Symposium Sessions (Thu/Fri/Sat)            https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/93979607180?pwd=MfaFbLZWNLZJAxcOY3cm6eTsJESVqL.1

Readings (Thu/Fri/Sat)                                   https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/92469126577?pwd=ZMYw1sFP889LzAgkkzlRrSD1hA1gqz.1

That Peculiar Affirmative by Jonathan Farmer

– The Battle for Attention by Nathan Heller

Jonathan’s review of Promises of Gold by Jose Olivarez

The Lottery in Babylon by Jorge Luis Borges

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

– Robert Wilson

– The Way of the Gun (2000)

Football Club Bruno’s Magpies

Ned Kelly

Oulipo

Italo Calvino

Portlandia

Alan Shapiro

The episode of Poetry Says in which Alice and I did indeed end up talking about Gwen Harwood’s Krote poems, among other things

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning

Wendy Cope’s Strugnell poems

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope

Barry (2018)

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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