NB: Brian informs me that Yarvin’s interviewer was actually David Marchese, not Michael Barbaro, which might explain why I found him so much less insufferable than usual! Also, male mainstream liberal podcasters sure do all have the same voice, don’t they?

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The Daily’s interview with Curtis Yarvin

– Yarvin’s embarrassing thoughts on the Passage Prize

– Yarvin’s less less embarrassing thoughts on a Poetry Daily poem

– Alice’s two poems in New Verse Review

– Violent Femmes by Nida Sophasarun

– My short essay on the 32 Poems website

– My poem Melancholia in Ploughshares (just ask if you want to read it)

– Poetry Says Ep 186. Sensitive New Right Guy

– Poetry Says Ep 294. The American Ecstatic

– Sex Elegy by Terence Winch

– Tar River Poetry

– Nik Prassas’ transcriptions of Geoffrey Hill’s lectures

– Ep 49: Handsome People Can Be Sad, ft. David Kern

– What is art? by Leo Tolstoy

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