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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