Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Poems about semen

– The book contest–industrial complex

– A competing theory of “y’all”

– foetry.com

– There’s no money in poetry

– It’s hard to publish a first (or second, or third) book of poetry

– PoBiz!

– The Jorie Graham Rule

– Alan Cordle, et al.

– The Yale Younger Poets Prize, The Contemporary Poetry Series, and the rest

– Auden and Ashbery

– A little bit of accounting for taste

– The CLMP Contest Code of Ethics

– Harriet vs. Scarriet

– The Poetry Hot 100!

– “Rappers React to Rich Brian ft. Ghostface Killah, Desiigner, Tory Lanez & More”

– Aristotle on lion drawings

– The priamel

– Sappho’s Fragment 16, translated by Sherod Santos as “To Anactoria”

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