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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– When the Earth Flies into the Sun by Derek Mong

– At Length

– Annie O. Fisher

– The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker

– Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker

– The Belle of Amherst by William Luce

– A Quiet Passion ()

– Being John Malcovich (1999)

– Laura Lippman

– Lewis Turco

– Carl Dennis

– Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright

– Vox by Nicholson Baker

– House of Holes by Nicholson Baker

– Funny, but Serious Too by Michael Dirda

– Poems: North & South; A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop

– Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop

– Specimen Days by Walt Whitman

– Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham

– Dead Souls by Sam Riviere

– Ep 32: Poets Without Poems, ft. Sam Riviere

– Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

– Practice by Rosalind Brown

– A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) (Is it a coincidence that her yellow coat and red hat match Amanda Gorman’s inauguration ensemble?)

– Lupita Nyong’o, great weirdo actor

– The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)

– Ep 126: Sassy Kids, ft. Alexis Sears, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

– A Teacher (2013)

– The American Poet at the Movies by Laurence Goldstein

– Paterson (2016)

– Ep 27: Baker’s Poetry, ft. Alice Allan

– Rhyme and Unreason by David Orr

– Jason Koo

– Meter in English by David Baker

– Paul Kiparsky

– Sara Teasdale

– Lullaby by W. H. Auden

– Ashes of Life by Edna St. Vincent Millay

– If you stick a stock of liquor by Norman Levy

– Susan Delaney Spear

– The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

– Sonnet 31 by Philip Sidney

– Marilyn Hacker

– Horace i.25

– The League of Moveable Type

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