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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

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

– Let me know if you’d like a review copy of my forthcoming chapbook The Soft Black Stars: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

– The Christian Poetry Comeback by Paul J. Pastor

– Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia

– Poetry as Enchantment by Dana Gioia

– The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Narrative Verse by Sunil Iyengar

– Bill Hicks

– Air Force Academy cancels lecture after discovering speaker disparaged Trump by Mary Shinn

– CC hosts speaker whose appearance at USAFA was canceled by Ashley Eberhardt

– Intimacy by Paisley Rekdal

– To Crawl Under the Earth: The Persistence of Expansive Poetry by Brian Brodeur

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