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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Princess Shikishi

– The Poetry Says ep where Alice talks about her translations of Shikishi

– Sabrina Orah Mark

– The Rattle Chapbook contest

– Tim Green & Katy Dozier

– Gotham Chess

– Hikaru Nakamura

– Moby Dick by Herman Melville

– AlphaZero

– Stockfish

– A. O. Scott’s Poetry Lessons by Jonathan Farmer

– Two Extravagant Teachings by Neil Hertz

– On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt

– The episode on the AI poetry study, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

– The episode on AI poetry with Carmine Starnino

– The episode where I talk about luxury beliefs

– Big Ideas, Little Pictures by Jono Hey

– Richard Hamming

– Paul Muldoon

– The Symposium by Plato

– Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

– Aunt Imogen by E. A. Robinson

– Brian Brodeur’s essay on Robinson

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