SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.

NB: Did I forget about Hitler? you ask. Did I forget about Stalin? On the one hand, yes, I temporarily did. On the other, there’s something about the notion that Gilles de Rais did all this personally in his own home for the explicit purpose of impressing the Devil with his evilness that really sickens the soul. But yes, good point, there’s always Hitler, who was, in his own way, the worst person who ever lived.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Paradise Lost by John Milton

– Conspiracy by ContraPoints

– Cameron’s travel notes

– This Pleasing Anxious Being by Richard Wilbur

– Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

– The Versecraft interview w/ James Matthew Wilson

– The Death of Cicero by James Matthew Wilson (compare the first line to the first line of Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats)

– The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

– How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm

– How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

– Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert

– ContraPoints’ comment on Gaza

– Ready or Not (2019) & The Babysitter (2017) (same concept, same cosmology, same leading lady, both pretty entertaining)

– The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

– Evil

– Rod Dreher

– La-bas by J.-K. Huysmans

– Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize lecure

– The Tower of Babel

– Canceling by ContraPoints

– We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky

– Mitchell & Webb’s Lucentio sketch

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