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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
Leave the show a rating here!
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:
– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
– Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!
– My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
– I’m reading this Saturday, March 14, at 6:00 p.m. at the Mettlesome Theater in Durham, NC
– Brian’s appearance on The Gist
– The Mysterious Case of Gothic Verse Narratives by Brian Brodeur
– Pre-order Sixteen Games of Hide and Seek by Stephen Bass and Steve Teare!
– Sofia Kavlin Castaneda of Unsent Letterbox
– Rosanna Oh
– Sonnet 130
– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
– Poetry by Joseph Harrison
– Moira Egan
– Joe Osterhaus
– Robert Schreur
– Sunil Iyengar
– The Same City by Terrance Hayes
– Maps by James Baker Hall
– Michael Theune
– Kim Noriega
– Kim Addonizio
– Poetry Says Ep 294. The American Ecstatic
– Dan Kois
– The Martin Chronicles
– Lauren Wethers
– Reclaiming Jane
– Jordan Kisner
– Thresholds
– The Critic and Her Publics
– Michele Moses
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
– Victoria Moul
– Katie Dozier & Tim Green
– George David Clark
– Tristram Fane Saunders
– Philip Metres
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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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
Leave the show a rating here!
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:
– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
– Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!
– My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
– I’m reading this Saturday, March 14, at 6:00 p.m. at the Mettlesome Theater in Durham, NC
– Brian’s appearance on The Gist
– The Mysterious Case of Gothic Verse Narratives by Brian Brodeur
– Pre-order Sixteen Games of Hide and Seek by Stephen Bass and Steve Teare!
– Sofia Kavlin Castaneda of Unsent Letterbox
– Rosanna Oh
– Sonnet 130
– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
– Poetry by Joseph Harrison
– Moira Egan
– Joe Osterhaus
– Robert Schreur
– Sunil Iyengar
– The Same City by Terrance Hayes
– Maps by James Baker Hall
– Michael Theune
– Kim Noriega
– Kim Addonizio
– Poetry Says Ep 294. The American Ecstatic
– Dan Kois
– The Martin Chronicles
– Lauren Wethers
– Reclaiming Jane
– Jordan Kisner
– Thresholds
– The Critic and Her Publics
– Michele Moses
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
– Victoria Moul
– Katie Dozier & Tim Green
– George David Clark
– Tristram Fane Saunders
– Philip Metres
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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