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SLEERICKETS episodes

November 22, 2024 Ep 170: New Advances in Quitting Poetry, ft. Versecraft
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Promise of Words by Laura Riding
– Elijah’s notes on the essay
– Beyond Poetry by Blake Smith
– The Republic by Plato
– On Portents by Robert Graves
– No Second Troy by W. B. Yeats
– Versecraft on Riding & Graves, on John Martin Finlay, on Cameron
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Chris Childers
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 15 min
November 12, 2024 Ep 169: Thunder & Rain
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
NB: Oops, forgot to mention all the non-voting/protest voting listeners out there. I see you, too.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Leila’s recommendations:
- "Dedication" by Fady Joudah, who is also American but with a personal connection to Gaza, many of whose family members have indeed been killed there: 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize Reading: Fady Joudah in Conversation With Pádraig Ó Tuama (recorded here beginning at minute 50)
- "Not Just Passing" and "I Grant You Refuge" by Heba Abu Nada, who was killed in Gaza: Not Just Passing: In Honor of Heba Abu Nada - Mizna; I Grant You Refuge • Protean Magazine
- "My mother once said" and "The land fights, too" by Nour Khalil Abu Shammala, writing from Gaza: My mother once said | The Electronic Intifada; The land fights, too | The Electronic Intifada
- "A Request," "Right or Left," and others contained in this interview with Mosab Abu Toha, who is from Gaza and some of whose experience is also recounted here: “Forest of Noise”: Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on New Book, Relatives Killed in Gaza & More | Democracy Now!
- "It Always Starts with Words" and "Four Poems" by Olivia Elias, born in Palestine and writing from the diaspora: It Always Starts with Words - Mizna; FOUR POEMS by Olivia Elias, trans. Jérémy Victor Robert – FOUR WAY REVIEW
- "Gazan Despair" and "When a Missile Lands" by Yahya Ashour, who is outside of Gaza and unable to return: Gazan Despair - Mizna; New Poetry in Translation: Yahya Ashour’s ‘When a Missile Lands’ – ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY
- Poems from "Ash and Air" by Nadine Murtaja, writing from Gaza: Ash and Air: a Poetry Folio from Gaza - Mizna

– Padraig O Tuama
– Julie Steiner
– Ep 167: Poetry Magazine, October 2024
– Ceasefire Haiku by Faisal Mohyuddin
– The Tea and Sage Poem by Fady Joudah
– Mimesis by Fady Joudah
– Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha
– Brian Cox’s rendition of If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer
– If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer
– Sunlight on the Garden by Louis MacNeice
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 17 min
November 06, 2024 Ep 168: What Are Houses For?, ft. James Haverty Smith
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– James Haverty Smith
– Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
– Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure—Then Gave It a Violent Remix by Ian Parker
– Ep 167: Poetry Magazine, October 2024
– My appearance on Drunk as Poet on Payday
– Jason Gray
– Tadao Ando
– Frank Gehry
– Zaha Hadid
– Santiago Calatrava
– Colin Rowe
– Tesla Cybertruck (and the phony DeLorean logo on the one we saw)
– Boston Dynamics Dogs
– Paradise Lost by John Milton
– Manuel Cadrecha
– Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace (the perfect courtyard)
– Jorge Silvetti (the professor who assigned the analysis of the Villa La Rotonda)
– Villa La Rotonda (the most famous building in the world)
– Donato Bramante
– Andrea Palladio
– Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
– Notre-Dame du Haut (Le Corbusier’s chapel in Ronchamp)
– Bauhaus
– Collage City by Fred Koetter and Colin Rowe
– Philip Johnson
– Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Frank Gehry’s building inspired by the shipyards)
– Heydar Aliyev Centre (Zaha Hadid’s building dedicated to a tyrant but beloved by skateboarders)
– Santa Maria de la Tourette
– Villa Savoye
– The Paideia School (my weird high school)
– A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
– Margaret Pepperdene (my mentor Jane)
– The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
– John’s Mountie Boots by Marilyn Levine
– Chuck Close
– Louis Kahn (not Thomas Kuhn)
– Thomas Kuhn (the paradigm shift guy)
– John Barth (not Roland Barthes)
– The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes
– Donald Barthelme
– The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills by Joanna Pearson (my wife’s YA novel)
– The Daily: How Air-Conditioning Conquered the World
– One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
– Dear Derrida by David Kirby
– Mozart’s Requiem
– The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
– Westworld (1973) by Michael Crichton
– Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
– Timeline by Michael Crichton
– CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 30 min
October 30, 2024 Ep 167: Poetry Magazine, October 2024, Pt. 1
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Poetry Magazine, October 2024 (all of the poems discussed appear herein)
– Allegory by Morri Creech
– The 400-Pound CEO by George Saunders
– My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
– The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
– Trust by Hernan Diaz
– Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 8 min
October 23, 2024 Ep 166: Three Bird Mafia, ft. Jonathan Farmer
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Cameron’s opening reading for the Critical Path Symposium (w/ Elijah, too!) October 24 at 11:00 a.m. US Eastern
Welcome Session (Thu 10/24)                    https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/99723229304?pwd=8PxJRe3eaLx9SV3BzZOTyFUbhw99qN.1
Symposium Sessions (Thu/Fri/Sat)            https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/93979607180?pwd=MfaFbLZWNLZJAxcOY3cm6eTsJESVqL.1
Readings (Thu/Fri/Sat)                                   https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/92469126577?pwd=ZMYw1sFP889LzAgkkzlRrSD1hA1gqz.1
– That Peculiar Affirmative by Jonathan Farmer
– The Battle for Attention by Nathan Heller
– Jonathan’s review of Promises of Gold by Jose Olivarez
– The Lottery in Babylon by Jorge Luis Borges
– American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
– Robert Wilson
– The Way of the Gun (2000)
– Football Club Bruno’s Magpies
– Ned Kelly
– Oulipo
– Italo Calvino
– Portlandia
– Alan Shapiro
– The episode of Poetry Says in which Alice and I did indeed end up talking about Gwen Harwood’s Krote poems, among other things
– The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
– Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
– Wendy Cope’s Strugnell poems
– Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
– Barry (2018)
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
51 min
October 15, 2024 Ep 165: The Mountain Pass, ft. Philip Metres, Pt. 1
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
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SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Fugitive/Refuge by Philip Metres
– The ALSCW Conference, where I’ll be reading with Mary Jo Salter and Christopher Childers
– The Will to Believe by William James
– 90 North by Randall Jarrell
– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
– My poem Creed for Atheists
– Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens
– The Cleveland reading
– White Noise by Emma Cline
– My sight, which was my power, now blurs by Arseny Tarkovsky, trans. Philip Metres
– Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction by Wallace Stevens
– A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens
– The Auroras of Autumn by Wallace Stevens
– Jesus and the woman taken in adultery
– Padraig O Tuama
– St. John Chrysostrom
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 16 min
October 07, 2024 Ep 164: The Quiet Part
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The ALSCW Conference
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
– The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
– My ill-advised poem Overheard at a Reading, from the new issue of 32 Poems
– Translation by Roy Fuller
– A Colleague Confesses by Carl Dennis
– Poetry Says Ep 283. Tool time
– Ep 163. How Racist Is Creative Writing?, ft. Alexis Sears & Joanna Pearson
– Victoria’s essay referencing SLRKTS
– Ep 161. Handbook for the Recently Deceased Poet
– Ep 111. Obvious Boobies, ft. Ashley Anna McHugh, Pt. 1
– Secret Show Ep 110. Water Power!
– The Simpson Season 6, Ep 18: A Star Is Burns
– The Shining (1980)
– When Defending Your Writing Becomes Defending Yourself by Matthew Salesses
– Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Ungrateful Black Writer by Saeed Jones
– Ethan’s excellent graphs of the last 10 winners of 10 big poetry prizes
– Send your literary conference blind items to SLEERICKETS [at] GMAIL [dot] COM !
– Secret Show Ep 94. Who’s Winning the Poetry Prizes?
– The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat
– MFA vs. POC by Junot Diaz
– VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
– SLEERICKETS Ep 5: Ars Foetica
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 16 min
September 30, 2024 Ep 163: How Racist Is Creative Writing?, ft. Alexis Sears & Joanna Pearson
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Out of Order by Alexis Sears
– Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson
– When Defending Your Writing Becomes Defending Yourself by Matthew Salesses
– Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Ungrateful Black Writer by Saeed Jones
– Ethan’s excellent graphs of the last 10 winners of 10 big poetry prizes
– Send your literary conference blind items to SLEERICKETS [at] GMAIL [dot] COM !
– Secret Show Ep 94. Who’s Winning the Poetry Prizes?
– The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat
– MFA vs. POC by Junot Diaz
– Stephanie Macias
– The Humpty Dance by Digital Underground
– Wyatt Prunty
– Caki Wilkinson
– Jonathan Heinen
– Tim Robinson
– There There by Tommy Orange
– Questlove
– VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
– SLEERICKETS Ep 5: Ars Foetica
– Jerry Saltz
– Curvy Wife Guy
– Widespread Bias Found in Home Appraisals by Debra Kamin
– Sherman Alexie’s introduction to the 2015 Best American Poetry
– The Unquiet Grave
– Daniel Handler
– Jacqueline Woodson
– Citizen by Claudia Rankine
– Pretendians
– Heartbreak Ghazal by Alexis Sears
– MFA Draft
– Do ghazals work in English? by Victoria Moul
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 8 min
September 19, 2024 Ep 162: The Train There’s No Getting Off, ft. Derek Mong
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– When the Earth Flies into the Sun by Derek Mong
– At Length magazine
– 32 Poems No 43. Summer 2024
– There by Christopher Childers
– I Too Had a Childhood by Eleanor Stanford
– One of two poems of mine in the new 32 Poems
– The part in Tree of Life where (among other things) Jessica Chastain flies
– Marjorie Perloff’s review of The Birthday Letters
– The Two Ariels: The (Re)making of the Sylvia Plath Canon by Marjorie Perloff
– Ariel by Sylvia Plath
– Ariel: The Restored Edition
– Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
– Sylvia (2003)
– Pike by Ted Hughes
– Sharon Olds
– Anne Sexton
– Deborah Landau
– Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
– Adrienne Rich
– Helen Vendler
– Daddy by Sylvia Plath
– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
– Nick and the Candlestick by Sylvia Plath
– A Secret by Sylvia Plath
– You’re by Sylvia Plath
– William Heyen
– Swoop by Hailey Leithauser
– Transformations by Anne Sexton
– Kevin Young
– Life Studies by Robert Lowell
– Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell
– 13 Reasons Why (2017)
– Wintering by Sylvia Plath
– A rough approximation of a store in my town
– Purdah by Sylvia Plath
– Sheep in Fog by Sylvia Plath
– Honey’s Dead by The Jesus and Mary Chain
– Shaken Baby Syndrome
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 23 min
September 07, 2024 Ep 161: Handbook for the Recently Deceased Poet
NB3: Check out former guest Victoria Moul’s criticism of this episode here!
NB2: Speaking of Whoreywood, check out Matt Wall’s bananas unfinished memoir of making movies in Hollywood.
NB1: It turns out there is in fact some record of Heraclitus the poet, outside of Callimachus’ poem, but not much.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Material Witness: Remembering an Abiding Debt to Timothy Murphy by Maryann Corbett
– Wildfire Season by Maryann Corbett
– Timothy Murphy
– Maryann Corbett
– Alan Sullivan
– Eratosphere
– Aaron Poochigian
– Alex Pepple
– Richard Wilbur
– Quincy Lehr
– Lin-Manuel Miranda
– Champagne Sharks
– The West Wing
– Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
– Breakfast at Brennan’s by Timothy Murphy
– Prison Chaplain by Timothy Murphy
– The Failure by Timothy Murphy
– The Dead Poet by Timothy Murphy
– The Drowned Immortal by Timothy Murphy
– Only Poems
– Paging Dr. Platzmouth
– The Stars Shine Without Me by Matt Cardin
– Chris Childers
– The Dowser’s Ear by Wilmer Mills (the poem, I think, that Stallings read in memory of Mills at the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference)
– Heraclitus by William Johnson Cory
– Rachel Wetzsteon
– Hart Crane
– Jay Wright
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 22 min