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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Fugitive/Refuge by Philip Metres

– Dispatches from the Land of Erasure by Philip Metres

– Cameron’s new Substack, Minor Tiresias

– What the Hell Is the Presidency for? by Jonathan Farmer

– Svetlana Alexievich

– The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry, Ed. Rita Dove

– Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

– Fady Joudah

– Steven Salaita

– Norman Finkelstein

– Lawrence Joseph

– Heaven Looks Like Us (anthology of Palestinian Poetry)

– Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the 1960s by Philip Brian Harper

– Phil’s seelction of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry:

“End of a Talk with a Jailer” by Samih al-Qasim

https://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2007/07/samih-al-qasims-end-of-talk-with.html

“We Travel Like Other People” by Mahmoud Darwish

https://rihlajourney.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/mahmoud-darwish-b-palestine-1941-we-travel-like-other-people/

“State of Siege” by Mahmoud Darwish

http://www.alkalimah.net/Articles/Read/8027

“Against” by Rashid Hussein:

https://adimagazine.com/articles/three-poems-by-rashid-hussain/

“We” by Ghayath Almadoun

https://themarkaz.org/we-and-4978-and-one-nights-by-ghayath-almadhoun/

“Write My Name” by Zeina Azzam

https://www.arabamerica.com/palestinian-cry-from-gaza-write-my-name-goes-viral-in-poem-by-palestinian-american/

“Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” by Noor Hindi

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/154658/fuck-your-lecture-on-craft-my-people-are-dying

[…] by Fady Joudah

“Jerusalem” by Naomi Shihab Nye

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54296/jerusalem-56d2347ab7a20

“All Things Not Considered” by Naomi Shihab Nye

https://mayazmi.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/all-things-not-considered-naomi-shihab-nye-women-in-poetry/

“Variations on a Last Chance” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 

https://themarkaz.org/lena-khalaf-tuffaha-two-poems/

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: In Future

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: Minor Tiresias

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith