SLEERICKETS

By Matthew Buckley Smith

Welcome to SLEERICKETS, a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.

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How many episodes does SLEERICKETS have?

The podcast currently has 253 episodes available.

SLEERICKETS episodes:

August 31, 2023 Ep 120: Picking Up the Phone, ft. Dr. Taylor Byas
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas
– The poems of Jessie Redmon Fauset
– Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset
– Edith M. Thomas
– The Flea by John Donne
– Alice’s two-parter on an Aeneid-related poem: Part 1 & Part 2
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
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 17min
August 26, 2023 Ep 119: Hard Cases, ft. Emmalea Russo, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Purity-Policing Is Poison to Poetry by Emmalea Russo
– Matt Wall’s episode on the controversy
– Magenta by Emmalea Russo
– An article to which Emmalea and had somewhat different reactions
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
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 4min
August 16, 2023 Ep 118: Obvious Boobies, ft. Ashley Anna McHugh, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Into These Knots by Ashley Anna McHugh
– The Dyer’s Hand by W. H. Auden
– The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
– Richard Wilbur
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
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 4min
August 10, 2023 Ep 117: 0 Days Since Last Cry
NB: Happy birthday to my dad!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Men Are Lost by Christine Emba
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
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 3min
August 03, 2023 Ep 116: We All Have Dick Blood on Our Hands
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Peter Vertacnik
– The New Criterion
– The Secret Show episode about an earlier iteration of this mess
– The article on the Cambodian Poet Chin Meas
– The article on the Lunar Codex
– Greg Gutfeld invokes Viktor Frankl
– The penis article
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
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 3min
July 01, 2023 Ep 115: Outrageous Nonsense
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The brain magnets Secret Show episode referred to in the cold open
– The bigot-platforming Secret Show episode referred to in the cold open
– The Clown Puppet by Thomas Ligotti
– Bloodchild by Octavia Butler
– The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
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
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 13min
June 27, 2023 BONUS: The Bros of Yesteryear
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– My Intro to Horror class
– The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
– The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
– The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffman
– Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
– A Small Good Thing by Raymond Carver
– Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis by Francois Villon
– Sonnet 130
– Ubi Sunt Qui Ante Nos Fuerunt
– The Wanderer
– The Ballad of the Goodly Fere by Ezra Pound
– Sex Elegy Terence Winch
– Horace i.25
– No Second Troy by W. B. Yeats
– Wild Oats by Philip Larkin
– Blue Girls by John Crowe Ransom
– To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
– Sonnet about P. by Donald Justice
– Anthony Hecht
– Horace
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
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 7min
June 22, 2023 Ep 114: The Manliness of Men, ft. Derek Mong, Pt. 1
NB: Here is the poem I thought of when I dumbly confused blasons with ballades.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Anne O. Fisher’s husband, Derek Mong!
– Derek’s book The Identity Thief
– Derek’s essay-review on Whitman, Bly, & Kempf
– Derek’s essay/op-ed about teaching Emily Dickinson to men
– Chris Kempf’s poem about playing Call of Duty
– Midnight Arrythmia by Derek Mong
– To Assemble This Poem Properly by Derek Mong
– At Length Magazine
– Jonathan Farmer
– Valerie Solanas
– Sonnet 130
– Men by John Crowe Ransom
– Alice’s great AMA episode, w/ roast of SLRKTS
– David Baker
– What I Lost When I Stopped Crying by Benjamin Perry
– Beowulf
– The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
– Coleman Glenn
– Anthony Hecht
– Horace
– Ethan McGuire
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
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 17min
June 16, 2023 Ep 113: Jiminy Rickets, ft. Shane McCrae, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Cain Named the Animal by Shane McCrae
– Stalker and Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky
– Patti Smith
– Wilfred Owen
– That time Elijah and I tried to scan a line
– Timothy Steele
– The Dream Songs by John Berryman
– The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
– My most recent conversation with Alexis Sears
– Wallace Stevens
– The mini-issue of West Branch that Shane edited
– Richard Howard
– Ernest Hilbert
– Liturgy
– Eternal Champion
– Metallica
– Of the Scythians by Katha Pollitt
– Beowulf
– That time Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the Temple
– The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
– Coleman Glenn
– Anthony Hecht
– Juvenal
– Horace
– James Merrill
– Alexander Pope
– John Dryden
– John Donne
– Ethan McGuire
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
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 17min
June 09, 2023 Ep 112: LIVE NUDE POEM$, ft. Matt Wall
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Blood Rag
– Let Us Bleed by Bunny Wilde and Matt Wall
– The Bloodshed Review
– On Submission Fees and the Belief that Editors Are Pirates by Jenna Rivieccio
– Narrative Magazine’s extravagant submission fee
– Ethan McGuire
– Joshua Mehigan
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
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 34min

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