Our hosts, but mostly Maq, discuss the art of poetry, the general terribleness of Ezra Pound, and the fact that Poetry is Good, Actually.

Maq chose a lot of poems for today's episode; below are some links from her show notes, including some poems we didn't get around to discussing but are worth reading nonetheless.

Reading List:

• Canto 2 from “Hang it all, Robert Browning” to the Greek. 11 lines only, that’s all we need to hate him. Found here: https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/poetry/canto-ii-pound/poem-text and here.
• From 2001, Alan Dugan’s Love Song: I & Thou
• From 1989, Haizi’s Looking out to sea, warmed by the spring air
• From 2010, Traci Brimhall’s Concerning Cuttlefish and Ugolino
• Let’s do a sonnet! From 1997, William Meredith’s The Illiterate
• Rania Kapoor’s (2016) The Introvert’s Banter
• Edwin Arlington Robinson’s (1914) Eros Turranos 
• Why I Haven’t Told You Yet by Emi Mahmoud
• A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts (1954)  by Wallace Stevens
• I Go Out on a Road Alone by Mikhail Lermentov
• Love One Another by Khalil Gibran
• Exeter Book Poem/Riddle 44  (approx  975)
• The Hallmark Poem  aka Easter Wings by George Herbert (only to complain about how shitty people existed even in the 17th century)
• Neil Hilborn’s OCD
• John Donne's The Flea, The Canonization, The Ecstasy, Satire III

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