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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– When I Mean I by Jonathan Farmer

– Locating Voice by Christopher Childers

– Too Horny for Hexameter: Ovid’s Epic Fail by Christopher Childers

– My essay on Joshua Beckman

– The Polyvocal Poet by Ryan Wilson

– What Voice Is, ft. Jonathan Farmer, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

– Horace i.25

– Horace ii.20

– The Whirligig of Time by Anthony Hecht

– Heart of Autumn by Robert Penn Warren

– Western Wind

– Whoso List to Hunt by Thomas Wyatt

– Ozymandias by Percy Byshe Shelley

– Horace iii.2

– The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson

– The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Matt Wall

– 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