SLEERICKETS

Ep 22: The Truth Is Probably Not Out There


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NB: (1.) I meant to say “Aristotle,” not “aerosol.” (2.) Yeah, I know, it’s not Mattie Lee’s family but her friends who pass judgment on/express concern for her.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Derek DelGaudio’s taped magic show In & Of Itself

– Piero della Francesca’s fresco cycle The Legend of the True Cross

– Coleman Glenn’s good poem “Antipodes”

– Alice Allan’s good poetry podcast Poetry Says

– Robert Frost’s poems “Putting in the Seed,” “The Silken Tent,” and “Home Burial”

– Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

– Danielle Rose’s utterly anodyne and bizarrely controversial tweet and Barren Magazine’s stupid and histrionic response

– George Orwell’s essay “Poetry and the Microphone”

– Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death”

– Rebecca Hazelton’s essay in which she argues for the importance of mastering scansion by demonstrating that she has not mastered it

– Robert Hayden’s poem “Unidentified Flying Object”

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