Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Out of Order by Alexis Sears

– Field Knowledge by Morri Creech

– Big-Eyed Afraid by Erica Dawson

– My cool wife is going to AWP

– Johns Hopkins people: Greg Williamson, Richie Hofmann, David Yezzi, Mary Jo Salter, Andrew Motion, James Arthur

– Introduction to Fiction and Poetry

– André 3000’s verse on the new Kanye West record

– Louder than a Bomb (the poetry festival)

– Louder than a Bomb (the documentary)

– The slam poetry scene from 22 Jump Street

– Peter Kahn’s intro to the Respect the Mic excerpts in Poetry Magazine

– Louder than a Bomb student poets: Nate Marshall, Adam Gottlieb, Lamar Jorden, Nova Venerable

– Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall

– The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

– Other bad inaugural poems by Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco

– Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

– The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht

– My conversation about Christians etc. with Kathleen Jones

– Elizabeth Bishop on how embarrassing it is to be a poet

– The Seafarer

– He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) by the Crystals

– The Lost Daughter

– Don’t Look Up

– Eratosphere

– Quincy Lehr

– Kim Bridgford

– The West Chester Poetry Conference

– Poetry by the Sea

– Alexis and I are giving a reading together in April at Johns Hopkins

– Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning

– Golden Years by Alexis Sears

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