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Ep 185: Don’t Drown, ft. Naomi Kanakia, Pt. 1
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
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
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
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
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