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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
NB: In case it needs saying, no, I don’t think people should just seize hold of one another’s genitals without asking.
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:
– Literary Matters 18.1
– Submit to LM (but ignore the submissions guidelines)
– Tar River Poetry
– Submit to Tar River Poetry
– New Verse Review
– Submit Halloween-themed poems to New Verse Review
– Come hear me read at the Frost Farm this Thursday, September 11, at 6:30!
– My recent appearance on Matt Wall’s Bukowski Pod
– Zina Gomez-Liss
– Helena Feder
– Matt Steinhafel
– Emily Grace
– The ALSCW
– The Poetry Space
– To the Reader by Charles Baudelaire, trans. Tristram Fane Saunders
– The Little Review
– Concerning The Wreck by T. O. Brandon
– Women’s Work by Maya Venters
– Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
– Chubby Checker by M. I. Devine
– The Bad Apple Sings by Hailey Leithauser
– Senryu at Zion National Park by Pedro Poitevin
– Eratosphere
– The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins
– Concerning Kipling by George Bradley
– Nightjar by James Midgley
– Yangtze Gorge by Nida Sophasarun
– A thing I wrote on another poem of Nida’s for 32 Poems
– 90 North by Randall Jarrell
– Narcissus by R. Nemo Hill
– The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
– Assurances by Sunil Iyengar
– Spoor by Forester McClatchey
– The End of the Age of Singing by Niall Campbell
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
– Steve Knepper
– Helena Feder
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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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
NB: In case it needs saying, no, I don’t think people should just seize hold of one another’s genitals without asking.
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:
– Literary Matters 18.1
– Submit to LM (but ignore the submissions guidelines)
– Tar River Poetry
– Submit to Tar River Poetry
– New Verse Review
– Submit Halloween-themed poems to New Verse Review
– Come hear me read at the Frost Farm this Thursday, September 11, at 6:30!
– My recent appearance on Matt Wall’s Bukowski Pod
– Zina Gomez-Liss
– Helena Feder
– Matt Steinhafel
– Emily Grace
– The ALSCW
– The Poetry Space
– To the Reader by Charles Baudelaire, trans. Tristram Fane Saunders
– The Little Review
– Concerning The Wreck by T. O. Brandon
– Women’s Work by Maya Venters
– Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
– Chubby Checker by M. I. Devine
– The Bad Apple Sings by Hailey Leithauser
– Senryu at Zion National Park by Pedro Poitevin
– Eratosphere
– The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins
– Concerning Kipling by George Bradley
– Nightjar by James Midgley
– Yangtze Gorge by Nida Sophasarun
– A thing I wrote on another poem of Nida’s for 32 Poems
– 90 North by Randall Jarrell
– Narcissus by R. Nemo Hill
– The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
– Assurances by Sunil Iyengar
– Spoor by Forester McClatchey
– The End of the Age of Singing by Niall Campbell
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
– Steve Knepper
– Helena Feder
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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