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Ep 203: Gateway Drugs, ft. Mark Leidner, Pt. 1
NB: Oops, I meant 18th century. Also, Michael Haneke is Austrian after all.
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:
– Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize lecure
– Leopards in the Temple" by Franz Kafka (couldn’t find any good links, so here’s the text Mark copy-pasted to me: “Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.“)
– Returning the Sword to the Stone by Mark Leidner
– Mark’s Substack: Opaque Hourglass
– Recitatif by Tony Morrison
– Funny Games (1997 & 2007)
– Hamlet
– Julius Caesar
– Jack Handey
– Andy Kaufman
– Plato
– The Gettysburg Address
– Amleth
– The Tower of Babel
– The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
– Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize lecture
– Chelsey Minnis
– Juvenilia by Hera Lindsay Bird
– A Field of Telephones by Zach Savich
– Dogs of War by Mark Leidner
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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NB: Oops, I meant 18th century. Also, Michael Haneke is Austrian after all.
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:
– Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize lecure
– Leopards in the Temple" by Franz Kafka (couldn’t find any good links, so here’s the text Mark copy-pasted to me: “Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.“)
– Returning the Sword to the Stone by Mark Leidner
– Mark’s Substack: Opaque Hourglass
– Recitatif by Tony Morrison
– Funny Games (1997 & 2007)
– Hamlet
– Julius Caesar
– Jack Handey
– Andy Kaufman
– Plato
– The Gettysburg Address
– Amleth
– The Tower of Babel
– The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
– Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize lecture
– Chelsey Minnis
– Juvenilia by Hera Lindsay Bird
– A Field of Telephones by Zach Savich
– Dogs of War by Mark Leidner
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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