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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