SLEERICKETS

Ep 201: I Am My Shelf of Books, ft. Brad Leithauser, Pt. 1


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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

The Old Current by Brad Leithauser

Rhyme’s Rooms by Brad Leithauser

– Forty-Five Years On by Brad Leithauser

Anthony Hecht

– A. E. Housman

Charlotte Mew

– Marianne Moore

– Katsushika Hokusai

– John Crowe Ransom

Robert Frost

John Milton

Iron John: A Book about Men by Robert Bly

Elizabeth Bishop

– Chidiock Tichborne

– Richard Kenney

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 Posts

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: Minor Tiresias

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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