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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Making the Cut

– Placebo poems

– Maya Angelou’s poem “Phenomenal Woman”

– Housman’s poem “Here dead lie we because we did not choose”

– More Shashi Bhat!

– Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage

– Tertullian’s condemnation of rock ‘n’ roll

– The entertainingly merciless review of Woodstock 99 on a recent episode of Struggle Session

– The very bad definition of ‘corniness’ on a recent episode of Very Bad Wizards

– Plato’s exclusion of TV and the internet from his ideal city

– Tall, friendly men Jonathan Farmer and Ryan Wilson

– A smart, critical email I got from Andrew Palmer about my treatment of Ben Lerner’s poem “The Lights”

– Andrew Palmer’s novel The Bachelor

– Me on Brian Platzer on me on him on the sublime

– Smart and good poet/editor Armen Davoudian

– Elizabeth Bishop’s clairvoyant citation of Alan Shapiro’s book That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration

– Some encouragement to ignore all the dumb stuff I say, like, for example, “Pronunciation doesn’t matter”

– Michael Robbins’ review of Postmodern American Poetry

– Smart and good poet/editor Eric Smith

– Eliot’s essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

– James Wright’s poem “St. Judas”

– Shane McCrae’s poem “Jim Limber on Continuity in Heaven”

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Art by Daniel Alexander Smith