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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
Pretty Woman (1990)
Pretty Woman cut scenes
Insomnia by Elizabeth Bishop
Love Poem by John Forbes
A Gift by Don Paterson
90 North by Randall Jarrell
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz by W. B. Yeats
Heorot by Ryan WIlson
James McAuley
Ep 198: Shark Week
Dan Savage
Footloose (1984)
Secret show notes
Bodies by Drowning Pool
New Year’s: A Short Pantoum by Greg Williamson
Cold Turkey by Joshua Mehigan
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn by Ai Weiwei
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
Amy Hempel
Tired by Fenton Johnston
Sonnet 130
Priamel
Presto Manifesto! by A. E. Stallings
In Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter Kaufmann
Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton
Ogden Nash
The Brand New Catastrophe by Mike Scalise
Encomium
Florida by Lauren Groff
Travelling through the Dark by William Stafford
After Filing for Divorce by Chelsea Rathburn
The Soft Black Stars by Matthew Buckley Smith
Aubade by Philip Larkin
Omnibus Review of Terrance Hayes, Charles Martin, Natasha Trethewey by Matthew Buckley Smith
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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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
Pretty Woman (1990)
Pretty Woman cut scenes
Insomnia by Elizabeth Bishop
Love Poem by John Forbes
A Gift by Don Paterson
90 North by Randall Jarrell
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz by W. B. Yeats
Heorot by Ryan WIlson
James McAuley
Ep 198: Shark Week
Dan Savage
Footloose (1984)
Secret show notes
Bodies by Drowning Pool
New Year’s: A Short Pantoum by Greg Williamson
Cold Turkey by Joshua Mehigan
Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn by Ai Weiwei
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
Amy Hempel
Tired by Fenton Johnston
Sonnet 130
Priamel
Presto Manifesto! by A. E. Stallings
In Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter Kaufmann
Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton
Ogden Nash
The Brand New Catastrophe by Mike Scalise
Encomium
Florida by Lauren Groff
Travelling through the Dark by William Stafford
After Filing for Divorce by Chelsea Rathburn
The Soft Black Stars by Matthew Buckley Smith
Aubade by Philip Larkin
Omnibus Review of Terrance Hayes, Charles Martin, Natasha Trethewey by Matthew Buckley Smith
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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