NB: (1.) Arguably the entire useful part of Matthew Walther’s thesis has already been articulated more pithily on numerous occasions by Matt Wall.

(2.) The reason I laughed at Eric Smith’s list of contemporary poets he loves is that instead of providing their names, he simply tags 11 Twitter handles.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month by Matthew Walther

– Amit Majmudar

– Twitter personality Eric Smith

– Good poet Eric Smith

– The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot

– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

– The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

– Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot

– Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

– The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth

– Sonnet—To Science by Edgar Allan Poe

– To the Muses by William Blake

– Lovejoy Street by A. E. Stallings

– Alan Shapiro

– Shane McCrae

– Joshua Mehigan

– Ethan McGuire

– Ryan Wilson

– Jonathan Farmer

– Donahue’s Sister by Thom Gunn

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