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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Morri Creech won the Rattle Poetry Prize!

– Is it unethical for lit mags to conceal what portion of work is solicited? by Becky Tuch

– Tar River Poetry

– Literary Matters

– Tar River Poetry Reading Sunday, September 19, 2025

– Chelsea Rathburn

– Emily Dickinson

– Alex McKeown

– Ashley Anna McHugh

– A Heroic Death by Charles Baudelaire

– The first matador got the horn by Ernest Hemingway

– Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats

– Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats

– Dizzy by David Yezzi

– The Good News by David Yezzi

– The Chain by David Yezzi

– These Are the Poems, Folks by David Yezzi

– On the Marionette Theatre by Heinrich von Kleist

– Saeed Jones

– Woman Waits, Seething, Blooming by Dave Eggers

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