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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Pre-order Brian’s new book The Optimists!

The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know by Scott Alexander

Poetry Demon Hunters

William James

Pascal’s wager

Ep 214: Serious Bad Catholic, ft. Steve Knepper

Night by Elie Wiesel

I Spent Years Searching for Magic—I Found God Instead by Tara Isabella Burton

Hail Satan? (2019)

Andrew Palmer

Thomas Aquinas

Brats (2024)

Reverse Cowgirl, Raving, and Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark

Kathy Acker

I'm very into you: Correspondence 1995-1996 by McKenzie Wark and Kathy Acker

Judith Butler

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