Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook

– What makes a writing manual worth reading

– Too much talking, not enough poems!

– The SLEERICKETS logo

– Van Gogh’s “Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette”

– Daniel Alexander Smith: designer, artist, measurably cooler sibling

– Steve Jobs ruined fonts

– Janet Loxley Lewis’ poem “Days”

– Eratosphere exists and is good

– Some well-reasoned dissent re: the teachability of dessert and the artistic value of ASMR, podcasts, and (maybe) porn

– Young people love/tolerate/acknowledge the existence of SLEERICKETS!

– Robert Hayden’s poem “Paul Laurence Dunbar”

– Paul Muldoon and Kevin Young are talented and have at least two other things in common

– The New Yorker Poetry Podcast’s February 17, 2016 edition

– Donald Justice’s poem “There is a gold light in certain old paintings”

– Uncle Vanya

– Louis Malle’s porn-free last movie, Vanya on 42nd Street (Don’t be fooled by the trailer on YouTube, which badly misrepresents the tone, pacing, and atmosphere of the movie!)

– What the fuck “sleerickets” means

– Anthony Hecht’s poem “A Letter”

– Ashley Anna McHugh’s poem “The Unquarried Blue of Those Depths Is All But Blinding”

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