Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Poetry Says by Alice Allan

– The Ghost in the Martini by Anthony Hecht

– White Noise by Emma Cline

– The Assistant by Kitty Green

– Rhyme’s Reason by John Hollander

– The double dactyl (actually co-invented by Paul Pascal, not John Hollander!)

– One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzenitsyn

– Jeff Goldblum’s one line in Annie Hall

– Curb Your Enthusiasm’s mantra kerfuffle

– The Inferno

– Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

– The Watts family murders

– Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction by Zadie Smith

– Us by Jordan Peele

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith