NB: Sideways was actually co-written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne.

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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!

– Poems Beautiful and Useful, ed. Victoria Moul

– To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace

– Greater Metropolitan Shatador, ft. Victoria Moul

– The Matrix (1999)

– Jenny, the Halloween Spy by Lillie Patterson

– The Statue of Responsibility (the one about Man’s Search for Meaning)

– The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

– Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

– The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

– The Optimists by Brian Platzer

– The Mattering Instinct by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

– The Last Messiah by Peter Zapffe

– The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti

– Inferno I, 32 by Jorge Luis Borges

– Sideways (2004)

– The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

– Big in Romania, ft. Versecraft (the one where Elijah talks with Alice about The Denial of Death)

– St. Judas by James Wright

– The Mountain Pass, ft. Philip Metres, Part 1 & Part 2

– Tichborne’s Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne

– Happy were he could finish forth his fate by Robert Devereaux

– Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope

– Ars Poetica by Horace

– Epode ii by Horace

– The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden

– Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

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

– Helena Feder

– Nida Sophasarun

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov

Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer

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