SLEERICKETS

Ep 247: Listener Crit #11


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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!

The Frost Farm Prize results

Why Don’t People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do People Like? by Daniel Cowper

– Ep 246: The Case for Didactic Poetry Part 1 & Part 2

L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas by John Milton

– Odysseus’ Last Return to Ithaca by Pedro Poitevin

– XXIV by Philip Larkin

– Dune by Frank Herbert

– Dune (2021)

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

 MattWall

– 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

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