Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The four types of poetry podcasts

– A recent episode of Alice Allan’s podcast Poetry Says

– Alice’s book The Empty Show

– Red Scare and The Garret

– George Orwell’s essay “Poetry and the Microphone”

– Mark Strand

– Bonny Cassidy

– Finding your voice as a poet

– Shane McCrae’s essay “My War with John Ashbery”

– David Shurman Wallace’s essay “Dead Poet Anxiety”

– Extremely online poets

– Alan Shapiro

– Shane McCrae’s poem “Jim Limber on Continuity in Heaven”

– Harold Bloom’s book The Anxiety of Influence

– Instagram poet Kate Baer

– Famous nonexistent Australian poet Ern Malley

– Nobody wants to write reviews

– Ben Marcus’ book Notable American Women

– Kaveh Akbar’s bad blurb for the inaccurately titled Best Poems of Jane Kenyon

– John Ashbery’s poem “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”

– John Ashbery’s poem “The Instruction Manual”

– John Ashbery’s poem “Some Trees”

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