NB: Next week, Brian Platzer and I will be discussing I’m Thinking of Ending Things, the novel and the movie. Read/Watch it now to pre-empt spoilers!

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– A recent episode of Poetry Says

– More poetry readings!

– The Trolley Problem

– Ekphrasis

– Rodin’s sculpture Toilette of Venus and Andromeda

– Dante’s Inferno

– Michelangelo’s mural The Last Judgment

– Diego Rivera’s mural Man at the Crossroads

– “The Wanderer”

– Another good question from Coleman

– Keats’ poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

– Euripides’ Bacchae

– Donna Tartt’s novel The Secret History

– Joshua Mehigan’s poem “Cold Turkey”

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