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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Woman of Letters by Naomi Kanakia

– Is literary criticism just a school of sophistry? by Naomi Kanakia

– English class teaches students to be afraid of literature by Naomi Kanakia

– Is literature a false God? by Naomi Kanakia

– The new issue of Literary Matters!

– My poem Letter to a Middle-Aged Poet in First Things

– The Versecraft episode where we all traded poems, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

– AWP 2025

– What is art? by Leo Tolstoy

– The Secret Show episode on What is art?, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

– The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

– Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl

– Naomi’s review of James by Percival Everett in The Metropolitan Review

– Moby Dick by Herman Melville

– Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag

– The Case of the Wolf Man from the History of Infantile Neurosis by Sigmund Freud

– Mary Jo Salter

– The Norton Anthology of Poetry

– The Poem’s Heartbeat by Alfred Corn

– The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

– On Close Reading by John Guillory

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