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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Ethan’s response to this episode

– Ding Liren

– Wei Yi

– Wei Yi’s poem for Ding Liren w/ Ethan McGuire’s literal rendering, transliteration, and preliminary translation into rhyming pentameter

– Gukesh Dommaraju

– Poetry Says Ep 263. Water-dragon blues

– Poetry Says Ep 97. What makes poets lucky

– World Chess Championship 2024, Game 1

– Dreaming of Li Bai by Du Fu

– Chess24/Chess.com

– Gotham Chess

– Take Take Take

– On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche

– The Stephen Marche episode

– The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

– Sorrow and Words by Li Qingzhao

– The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats

– Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

– Ethan’s NVR newsletter

– An Alley in Avignon by Mary Jo Salter

– Ethan’s recent thematically cohesive commonplace book

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

– Chris Childers

– 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