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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!

– Danya Naroditsky

– Vasyl Ivanchuk

– The Dark Side of Chess

– Katie Dozier

– Tim Green

– Rattle

– The Poetry Space

– Gregory Orr

– Ion

– Anne Carson

– To my artist friends by Alice Allan

– The To My Artist Friends Versecraft Episode, Part 1 & Part 2

– A Sunset of the City by Gwendolyn Brooks

– Next Day by Randall Jarrell

– My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

– Ep 81: The Eliza Effect, ft. Carmine Starnino

– Crush by Richard Siken

– The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe

– The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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