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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:
– Donate to Matt’s Seasons of the Muse Indiegogo fundraiser!
– Bukowski Pod
– Matt’s Art
– Poetic Anarchy Press
– Shaylynn Marks
– When I Was a Poet by David Meltzer
– Neeli Cherkovski
– Charles Bukowski
– Allen Ginsberg
– Martin Esslin
– The Meat Poets
– The Beat Generation
– The Theatre of the Absurd
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
– Gregory Corso
– The San Francisco Renaissance
– Jack Kerouac
– Ocean Vuong
– Andrea Long Chu’s review of Ocean Vuong
– Tom Crewe’s review of Ocean Vuong
– The Black Mountain Poets
– So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
– Ben Jonson
– Robert Herrick
– The Tribe of Ben
– The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
– Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
– Douglas Blazek
– Weird Mask Magazine
– Arthur Rimbaud
– Holly Day
– Adam Crawford
– Francois Villon
– The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
– The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
– Black Square by Kazimir Malevich
– On the Beach by Nevil Schutes
– Every Day Is Like Sunday by Morrissey
– New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
– I Am 25 by Gregory Corso
– Pier Paolo Pasolini
– The Portrait Gallery Called Existence by Neeli Cherkovski
– Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
– Seventh Circle of Earth by Ocean Vuong
– An Epistle Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben by Ben Jonson
– Without by Donald Hall
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
– Matt Wall
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
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:
– Donate to Matt’s Seasons of the Muse Indiegogo fundraiser!
– Bukowski Pod
– Matt’s Art
– Poetic Anarchy Press
– Shaylynn Marks
– When I Was a Poet by David Meltzer
– Neeli Cherkovski
– Charles Bukowski
– Allen Ginsberg
– Martin Esslin
– The Meat Poets
– The Beat Generation
– The Theatre of the Absurd
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
– Gregory Corso
– The San Francisco Renaissance
– Jack Kerouac
– Ocean Vuong
– Andrea Long Chu’s review of Ocean Vuong
– Tom Crewe’s review of Ocean Vuong
– The Black Mountain Poets
– So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
– Ben Jonson
– Robert Herrick
– The Tribe of Ben
– The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
– Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
– Douglas Blazek
– Weird Mask Magazine
– Arthur Rimbaud
– Holly Day
– Adam Crawford
– Francois Villon
– The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
– The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
– Black Square by Kazimir Malevich
– On the Beach by Nevil Schutes
– Every Day Is Like Sunday by Morrissey
– New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
– I Am 25 by Gregory Corso
– Pier Paolo Pasolini
– The Portrait Gallery Called Existence by Neeli Cherkovski
– Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
– Seventh Circle of Earth by Ocean Vuong
– An Epistle Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben by Ben Jonson
– Without by Donald Hall
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
– Matt Wall
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
By Matthew Buckley Smith4.8
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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:
– Donate to Matt’s Seasons of the Muse Indiegogo fundraiser!
– Bukowski Pod
– Matt’s Art
– Poetic Anarchy Press
– Shaylynn Marks
– When I Was a Poet by David Meltzer
– Neeli Cherkovski
– Charles Bukowski
– Allen Ginsberg
– Martin Esslin
– The Meat Poets
– The Beat Generation
– The Theatre of the Absurd
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
– Gregory Corso
– The San Francisco Renaissance
– Jack Kerouac
– Ocean Vuong
– Andrea Long Chu’s review of Ocean Vuong
– Tom Crewe’s review of Ocean Vuong
– The Black Mountain Poets
– So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
– Ben Jonson
– Robert Herrick
– The Tribe of Ben
– The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
– Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
– Douglas Blazek
– Weird Mask Magazine
– Arthur Rimbaud
– Holly Day
– Adam Crawford
– Francois Villon
– The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
– The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
– Black Square by Kazimir Malevich
– On the Beach by Nevil Schutes
– Every Day Is Like Sunday by Morrissey
– New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
– I Am 25 by Gregory Corso
– Pier Paolo Pasolini
– The Portrait Gallery Called Existence by Neeli Cherkovski
– Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
– Seventh Circle of Earth by Ocean Vuong
– An Epistle Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben by Ben Jonson
– Without by Donald Hall
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
– Matt Wall
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
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:
– Donate to Matt’s Seasons of the Muse Indiegogo fundraiser!
– Bukowski Pod
– Matt’s Art
– Poetic Anarchy Press
– Shaylynn Marks
– When I Was a Poet by David Meltzer
– Neeli Cherkovski
– Charles Bukowski
– Allen Ginsberg
– Martin Esslin
– The Meat Poets
– The Beat Generation
– The Theatre of the Absurd
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
– Gregory Corso
– The San Francisco Renaissance
– Jack Kerouac
– Ocean Vuong
– Andrea Long Chu’s review of Ocean Vuong
– Tom Crewe’s review of Ocean Vuong
– The Black Mountain Poets
– So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
– Ben Jonson
– Robert Herrick
– The Tribe of Ben
– The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
– Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
– Douglas Blazek
– Weird Mask Magazine
– Arthur Rimbaud
– Holly Day
– Adam Crawford
– Francois Villon
– The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
– The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
– Black Square by Kazimir Malevich
– On the Beach by Nevil Schutes
– Every Day Is Like Sunday by Morrissey
– New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
– I Am 25 by Gregory Corso
– Pier Paolo Pasolini
– The Portrait Gallery Called Existence by Neeli Cherkovski
– Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
– Seventh Circle of Earth by Ocean Vuong
– An Epistle Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben by Ben Jonson
– Without by Donald Hall
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
– Matt Wall
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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