NB: Alan Shapiro and I will be reading poems, or interviewing each other, or fighting to the death, or something, tomorrow, Thursday, April 14, at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC. Also, apparently the podcast is actually called SLEERICKET. Currently burning and reprinting 8,000 branded beer koozies…

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Accepting the Disaster and The Optimist by Joshua Mehigan

– Root Quarterly

– Schopenhauer

– Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell

– Class by Paul Fussell

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

– Morri Creech

– Shane McCrae

– Ryan Wilson

– Langston Hughes

– Large Bad Picture and Poem by Elizabeth Bishop

– Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

– Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke

– Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden

– What is Minor Poetry? by T. S. Eliot

– Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

– Poets & Writers

– Pequod

– Sonnets 15, 18, 29, 30, 73, and 116

– Keats’ odes

– Aaron Poochigian

– Hamlet

– King Lear

– David Yezzi’s performance of King Lear

– little joe gould by E. E. Cummings

–Michael Slip (sp?)

– Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden

Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith