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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
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:
– Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
– The new issue of the Birmingham Poetry Review (the review of Midlife is in there, it’s just annoyingly not listed online)
– Euphoric Recall at In Future Posts by Alice Allan
– The ALSCW conference
– Rachel Hadas
– Dick Davis
– Li Po Meets Oulipo by Michael Leong
– How to Think like a Poet by Ryan Wilson
– Literary Matters
– Poetry Says: Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas Part 1 & Part 2
– The AWP
– The MLA
– Wolf Hall (PBS)
– Roger Reeves
– Zina Gomez-Liss
– David Mikics
– Ruby LaRocca (the college student, not the slasher actress)
– Macbeth (2015)
– Tim Carroll
– Clip from the 2012 production of Twelfth Night at the Globe, courtesy of Amanda
– Henry V (1944)
– Henry V (1989)
– Twelfth Night (1996)
– Gerhard Richter’s 2007 stained glass window for Cologne Cathedral
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
– David Yezzi
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus 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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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
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:
– Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
– The new issue of the Birmingham Poetry Review (the review of Midlife is in there, it’s just annoyingly not listed online)
– Euphoric Recall at In Future Posts by Alice Allan
– The ALSCW conference
– Rachel Hadas
– Dick Davis
– Li Po Meets Oulipo by Michael Leong
– How to Think like a Poet by Ryan Wilson
– Literary Matters
– Poetry Says: Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas Part 1 & Part 2
– The AWP
– The MLA
– Wolf Hall (PBS)
– Roger Reeves
– Zina Gomez-Liss
– David Mikics
– Ruby LaRocca (the college student, not the slasher actress)
– Macbeth (2015)
– Tim Carroll
– Clip from the 2012 production of Twelfth Night at the Globe, courtesy of Amanda
– Henry V (1944)
– Henry V (1989)
– Twelfth Night (1996)
– Gerhard Richter’s 2007 stained glass window for Cologne Cathedral
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
– David Yezzi
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus 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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