SLEERICKETS

By Matthew Buckley Smith

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

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The podcast currently has 239 episodes available.

SLEERICKETS episodes:

May 06, 2023 Ep 107: Another Dark Forest
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NB: Sorry this is so late. Sick and swamped. I’ll get back to doing show notes soon.
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
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...more
1h 15min
April 26, 2023 Ep 106: A Winters Tale, Pt. 1, ft. Elijah Blumov
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– Come heckle me Saturday April 29th at The Newburyport Literary Festival!
– Alice’s beautifully turned episode on The Mountain Goats
– Versecraft
– Zara Raab
– Preliminary Problems by Yvor Winters
– Elijah’s excellent notes on Preliminary Problems
– On Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats
– Tears, Idle Tears by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
– Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden
– Mending Wall by Robert Frost
– The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
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 36min
April 19, 2023 Ep 105: Les Enfants Sour Patch
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– The Newburyport Literary Festival
– Zara Raab
– Send me your questions for Shane McCrae!
– The NYT article in question
– The Twits by Roald Dahl
– Rudyard Kipling
– Joseph Conrad
– One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent by Not Dr. Seuss
– The lesbian romance my wife loved
– The inscrutable Super Mario Bros. Movie
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:
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...more
1h 1min
April 13, 2023 Ep 104: Tough-Guy Night at the Poetry Bar
NB: Sorry, no show notes for this one. Off to the doctor now!
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW!
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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:
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I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 10min
April 07, 2023 Ep 103: Most Excellent Schmancy, ft. Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Unreadability, Pts. I, II, and III by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
– Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
– Nightboat Books
– Futurepoem
– birth school work death by Alice Allan
– David Melnick
– Three Poems by John Ashbery
– Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
– Fernando Pessoa
– Robert Hayden
– Dennis Cooper
– James Schuyler
– Air the Trees by Larry Eigner
– Douglas Kearney
– Fonograf Editions
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 14min
March 30, 2023 Ep 102: Cosmic Drop Bear Pt. 1, ft. Elijah Perseus Blumov
To hear the rest of this conversation, check out the SLEERICKETS Secret Show!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Elijah’s podcast Versecraft
– The Pathetic Fallacy by Anthony Hecht
– The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
– Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
– Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
– Brand by Henrik Ibsen
– A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
– The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
– Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
– The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth
– The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
– The Ghost in the Martini by Anthony Hecht
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
Other ratbag poetry podcasts:
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 2min
March 27, 2023 BONUS: The Masturbuilders Pt. 1, ft. Jimmy Smith
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
– Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis Kahn by John Lobell
– Frank Gehry
– Frank Lloyd Wright
– George Costanza, Architect
– Mister Ed
– The Brady Bunch
– 500 Days of Summer
– Jungle Fever
– Louis Kahn
– Giuseppe Terragni
– The Danteum
– Albert Speer
– Thomas Jefferson
– The Divine Comedy
– On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche
– Philip Metres
– Viktor Frankl
– Santiago Calatrava Valls
– The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
– Fallingwater
– Taliesin
– Le Corbusier (Sometimes my dad calls him Corbu because he’s hip and in the know)
– Zaha Hadid
– Claude Levi-Strauss
– Ferdinand de Saussure
– Jacques Derrida
– Michelangelo
– Alexander Pope
– The Dunciad by Alexander Pope
– The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
– Counterpart
– Looper
– The Magus by John Fowles
– Amit Majmudar
– Knives Out and Glass Onion
– Hermann Goering
– Nomadland
– The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
– Kiss & Tell by Alain de Botton
– The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
– Emily Dickinson Letter 459a (couldn’t find the full text online when I looked for it the second time)
– Democracy and Poetry by Robert Penn Warren
– Alice in the Looking Glass by A. E. Stallings
– Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
– Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
– A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles
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
Other ratbag poetry podcasts:
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
41min
March 23, 2023 Ep 101: Lucky Ruins, ft. Stephen Marche
Hear more on the SLEERICKETS Secret Show!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche
– Carmine Starnino
– Before the Law by Franz Kafka
– The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
– The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
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
Other ratbag poetry podcasts:
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 21min
March 15, 2023 Ep 100: Poetry Is Not a Thing
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Shane McCrae
– Morri Creech
– The Performance by James Dickey
– Horace i.37
– Untitled by Katy Lederer
– Othello
– Hamlet
– The New Formalism episode and its Secret Show second half
– The Forbidden Episode 55
– Faust
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
Other ratbag poetry podcasts:
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
...more
1h 8min
March 09, 2023 Ep 99: The Arthur C. Brooks Distinguished Professor of 4 Secrets to Happiness
NB: Sorry, the sound came out a little fucked up on this one. Tried to smooth it as much as possible in post. With luck it’s still intelligible.
Get bonus episodes by subscribing to the SLEERICKETS Secret Show!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– What Not to Ask Me About My Long COVID by Jennifer Senior
– John Fetterman and the Performance of Wellness by Jennifer Senior
– Matt Wall
– Poems about Fucking by Matt Wall
– Secret Show Ep 32. Give Up, Dash
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
...more
1h 14min

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