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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Even My Sex Is Dust (Review of The Penguin Anthology of Spiritual Verse, ed. Kaveh Akbar) by Zara Raab

– Ep 177: Alice & Elijah vs. the Abyss, ft. Versecraft Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

– Churchgoing by Marilyn Nelson

– Church Going by Philip Larkin

– Were You There (traditional)

– Address to the Atheist by Phyllis Wheatley

– On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phyllis Wheatley

– Accepting the Disaster by Joshua Mehigan (poem)

– The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden

– Aubade by Philip Larkin 

– Why I am now a Christian by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

– Why I am not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

– Ross Douthat

– Jonathan Rauch

– Ep 64: The Rabbit Hole, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

– Luxury beliefs are the latest status symbol for rich Americans by Rob Henderson

– The Daily’s interview with Curtis Yarvin

– Poetry Says Ep 186. Sensitive New Right Guy

– Poetry Says Ep 294. The American Ecstatic

– Tar River Poetry

– What is art? by Leo Tolstoy

– The Dark Mountain Manifesto

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