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Ep 249: We Hogs Need This, Pt. 1
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 32 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!
– Join the Zoom conversation I’m having with Jimmy Pappas this Monday, June 8, at 7:00 p.m. US Eastern: Poems Against Hope
Zina Gomez-Liss
Can Art Teach? by David S. Wallace
Michel de Montaigne
The Pitt
Suits
Anthony Lane
J. M. Coetzee
A Few Words OnImproving Your Life Through the Great Books by Ethan McGuire
Secret show notes
Ep 246: A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper
Why Don't People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do They Like? by Daniel Cowper
Night by Elie Wiesel
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Plato's Republic
Giovanni’s Room and Notes of aNative Son by James Baldwin
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
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
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com
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 32 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!
– Join the Zoom conversation I’m having with Jimmy Pappas this Monday, June 8, at 7:00 p.m. US Eastern: Poems Against Hope
Zina Gomez-Liss
Can Art Teach? by David S. Wallace
Michel de Montaigne
The Pitt
Suits
Anthony Lane
J. M. Coetzee
A Few Words OnImproving Your Life Through the Great Books by Ethan McGuire
Secret show notes
Ep 246: A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper
Why Don't People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do They Like? by Daniel Cowper
Night by Elie Wiesel
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Plato's Republic
Giovanni’s Room and Notes of aNative Son by James Baldwin
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
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
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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