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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!
Timothee Chalamet's statements on ballet and opera, and on not having children
All Fours by Miranda July
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Night by Elie Wiesel
Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour on Versecraft
Reference Back by Philip Larkin
Donald Justice
Atmosphere in Eight Lines by Maryann Corbett
Down in the Valley by Joshua Mehigan
Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
Poetry Says Ep 242. with Joshua Mehigan
The Sponge by Joshua Mehigan on Versecraft
Secret show notes
Poetry Says Ep 219. This is scripture
Blues in Dallas, Old College Try, Going to Georgia, and This Year by The Mountain Goats (also No Children for Timothee)
Thomas Hardy
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Black Books: I Love Books guy
Black Sparrow Press
Faber
Literary Matters
HEAT
New Verse Review
Image Journal
London Review of Books
32 Poems
no more poetry
Everybody wants to waste your time by Drew Gooden
Wildflower and Barley by Hozier
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!
Timothee Chalamet's statements on ballet and opera, and on not having children
All Fours by Miranda July
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Night by Elie Wiesel
Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour on Versecraft
Reference Back by Philip Larkin
Donald Justice
Atmosphere in Eight Lines by Maryann Corbett
Down in the Valley by Joshua Mehigan
Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
Poetry Says Ep 242. with Joshua Mehigan
The Sponge by Joshua Mehigan on Versecraft
Secret show notes
Poetry Says Ep 219. This is scripture
Blues in Dallas, Old College Try, Going to Georgia, and This Year by The Mountain Goats (also No Children for Timothee)
Thomas Hardy
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Black Books: I Love Books guy
Black Sparrow Press
Faber
Literary Matters
HEAT
New Verse Review
Image Journal
London Review of Books
32 Poems
no more poetry
Everybody wants to waste your time by Drew Gooden
Wildflower and Barley by Hozier
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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