Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– My recent appearance on Poetry Says

– My class at the Redbud Writing Project

– Good writer Jonathan Farmer

– The 2021 Chess World Championship

– Yeats’ poem Adam’s Curse

– The Touch-Move Rule

– Good writer Shane McCrae

– Frederick Seidel’s poem Victory Parade

– Jay Wright

– Austin Allen’s essay Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse

– Lyn Hejinian, Jorie Graham, Ishion Hutchinson, Martin Corless-Smith

– Anthony Hecht’s poem A Letter

– Oh, no, more Bad Art Friend

– The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man

– Nietzsche’s whole God Is Dead thing

– Karl Jasper’s book Man in the Modern Age

– Philosopher and Nazi Martin Heidegger

– Auden’s poem In Memory of W. B. Yeats

– The Poetic Edda

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith