NB: Next week, Alice Allan of the Poetry Says podcast will be joining me to discuss the 2016 Jim Jarmusch poetry movie Paterson, but not the insanely long William Carlos Williams poem of the same name. Watch it now to pre-empt spoilers!

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– More Alice!

– Good advice from Ocean Vuong

– Michael Robbins’ poem “Alien vs. Predator”

– Michael Robbins’ review of Postmodern American Poetry

– Michael Robbins’ essay on atheism

– Michael Robbins’ book Walkman

– José Ortega y Gasset’s book The Revolt of the Masses

– Another smart email from Coleman

– An interview with Melissa Lovada-Oliva

– Helena Feder’s interview with Stephen Dunn

– “Sun Under Wood”

– Sonnet 73

– Sappho 31

– Catullus 51

– Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen

– Sam Riviere’s essay “In Defense of Poetic Plagiarism”

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