NB: At one point in this episode I say that the infamous essay The Briar Patch opposed the racial integration of schools. It actually opposed several different forms of integration.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Alice’s conversation with Cassandra Atherton

– Amit Majmudar

– George David Clark

– Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age by Dorothy Wickenden

– I’ll Take My Stand

– Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux

– Antiblurb by A. E. Stallings

– A Brief for the Defense by Jack Gilbert

– We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky

– Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

– 32 Poems

– A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight by Elisa Gabbert

– Carl Dennis

– Horace

– On Being Asked for a War Poem by W. B. Yeats

– Easter, 1916 by W. B. Yeats

– Among School Children by W. B. Yeats

– Kathleen’s William Goldman story (I make a dumb joke in this episode about the Make-A-Wish Foundation. As it happens, former guest Kathleen Jones was once a Make-A-Wish kid, and her wish was to meet William Goldman, a meeting that led to a rich and decades-long relationship.)

– The London Review of Books podcast

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