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Ep 212: Girls! Girls! Girls! ft. Alexis Sears & Joanna Pearson
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
NB: Also the title of a good Liz Phair song. And Chloe Pirrie is Scottish.
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:
– Out of Order by Alexis Sears
– Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson
– The Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Frost Farm
– Too Much (2025)
– Girls (2012–2017)
– Megan Stalter
– Will Sharpe
– Lena Dunham
– Luis Felber
– Michael Zegen
– John Magaro
– Aubrey Plaza
– Sally Hawkins
– Chloe Pirrie
– Adele Exarchopoulos
– Emily Ratajkowski
– Jack Antonoff
– Rhea Perlman
– Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke, ft. T.I., Pharrell
– Got to Give It Up by Marvin Gaye
– Keith Moon
– Sonoya Mizuno
– Eudora Welty
– Edi Patterson as Judy Gemstone
– The White Lotus (2021–)
– A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
– Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abelard
– Her Ex Writes a Novel by Shashi Bhat
– Byung-Chul Han
– J. K. Rowling
– Michael B. Jordan
– S. E. Hinton
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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By Matthew Buckley Smith
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3939 ratings
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
NB: Also the title of a good Liz Phair song. And Chloe Pirrie is Scottish.
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:
– Out of Order by Alexis Sears
– Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson
– The Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Frost Farm
– Too Much (2025)
– Girls (2012–2017)
– Megan Stalter
– Will Sharpe
– Lena Dunham
– Luis Felber
– Michael Zegen
– John Magaro
– Aubrey Plaza
– Sally Hawkins
– Chloe Pirrie
– Adele Exarchopoulos
– Emily Ratajkowski
– Jack Antonoff
– Rhea Perlman
– Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke, ft. T.I., Pharrell
– Got to Give It Up by Marvin Gaye
– Keith Moon
– Sonoya Mizuno
– Eudora Welty
– Edi Patterson as Judy Gemstone
– The White Lotus (2021–)
– A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
– Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abelard
– Her Ex Writes a Novel by Shashi Bhat
– Byung-Chul Han
– J. K. Rowling
– Michael B. Jordan
– S. E. Hinton
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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