NB: Sorry some of these episodes have been so quiet. It’s a problem I’ve been working on, and I think I finally figured out how to fix it! Unfortunately, that was just after I finished recording this week’s episode. Next week I should finally be audible!

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Freddie de Boer on making a living in publishing

– Cameron’s smart email

– Kaveh Akbar’s book Pilgrim Bell

– Man-of-many-hats Ryan Wilson

– My bad college workshop poetry

– Lyn Hejinian’s edition of The Best American Poetry

– Ocean Vuong’s poem “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”

– Frank O’Hara’s poem “Katy”

– Roger Reeves’ poem “Someday I’ll Love Roger Reeves”

– Andrew Epstein on the New York School roots of “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”

– Ocean Vuong’s book Night Sky with Exit Wounds

– Wolfgang Iser’s article “The Reading Process”

– Baudelaire’s mean prose poems

– Philip Larkin’s poem “The Old Fools”

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