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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Emily Dickinson’s fascicles

Susan Howe

Charles Dickens

Our first AMA: Pt. 1 & Pt 2

Dave Eggers

Robert Penn Warren

Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Walt Whitman

Heinrich von Kleist

Elena Ferrante

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Frederick Seidel

Anthony Hecht

HAL 9000

Merve Emre

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry by Harold Bloom

Secret show: 

Bob Dylan

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy's Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century by Vincenzo Barney

John Berryman

Timothée Chalamet

Hart Crane

Ep 80: The Marathon, ft. Skyzoo

Ep 23: Rhymes Without Beats, ft. James Nguyen

Charles Harpur

Banjo Paterson

A. D. Hope

Tenebrae by Geoffrey Hill

Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Red Meat Republic by Joshua Specht

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Past Lives (2023)

Ikiru (1952)

Ep 178: All the Supposedly Wonderful Poetry, ft. Jonathan Farmer

Jeanne Dielman (1975)

Inside Out 2 (2024)

Centuries by Joel Brouwer

Matthew’s movie list: 

Acute Misfortune (2018)

A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)

American Honey (2016)

Boiling Point (2021)

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Mope (2020)

Nope (2022)

The Shining (1980) 

Sicario (2015)

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