NB: In case you do live in North Carolina and are for some reason interested in taking a writing class with me (or someone else), the company for which I’m going to be teaching is called Redbud Writing Project.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Robert Kolker’s article Who Is the Bad Art Friend?

– Teaching creative writing

– The 2021 Chess World Championship

– Garry Kasparov versus Deep Blue

– SLEERICKETS is kind of on Twitter, but mostly on Chess.com

– A rather tart listener email about Red Scare and Cum Town

– The William Logan dilemma

– The health of poetry

– Mark Edmundson’s essay Poetry Slam

– Amiri Baraka’s poem Somebody Blew Up America

– Michael Dickman’s poem Scholls Ferry Rd.

– The downfall of Don Share

– Anders Carlson Wee’s poem How-To

– Kirk Nesset’s poem One Place Is as Good as the Next

– Sherman Alexie’s selection of Yi-Fen Chou’s/Michael Derrick Hudson’s poem The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve for the 2015 edition of The Best American Poetry

– Roger Dodger

– Catullus ii & iii

– Kevin Young’s poem Interlude

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