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June 16, 2024 UNLOCKED: AMA #1, Pt. 2
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Body Politic by Brian Platzer
– If by Rudyard Kipling
– An If for Girls by Elizabeth Lincoln Otis
– i carry your heart with me… by E. E. Cummings
– Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
– Sonnet 73
– Paradise Lost by John Milton
– Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor
– Stay by Rihanna
– Umbrella by Rihanna
– Dixie by Daniel Decatur Emmett
– Rod Keating
– Joshua Mehigan
– Jonathan Farmer
– Jessica Wilkinson
– Jane Pepperdene
– Bonny Cassidy
– Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
– In Her Shoes
– WFAN Sports Radio 101.9 FM/66 AM New York
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 13 min
June 16, 2024 UNLOCKED: AMA #1, Pt. 1
NB: Shashi Bhat asked one of these questions, and I forgot to credit her! Buy her book here!
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!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Body Politic by Brian Platzer
– If by Rudyard Kipling
– An If for Girls by Elizabeth Lincoln Otis
– i carry your heart with me… by E. E. Cummings
– Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
– Sonnet 73
– Paradise Lost by John Milton
– Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor
– Stay by Rihanna
– Umbrella by Rihanna
– Dixie by Daniel Decatur Emmett
– Rod Keating
– Joshua Mehigan
– Jonathan Farmer
– Jessica Wilkinson
– Jane Pepperdene
– Bonny Cassidy
– Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
– In Her Shoes
– WFAN Sports Radio 101.9 FM/66 AM New York
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 19 min
June 09, 2024 UNLOCKED: Shane McCrae Interview, Pt. 3
NB: After I recorded the intro and edited the three parts together, Squarespace informed me that it couldn’t host the entire interview in one post, or even in two, so I’m breaking it back up into three pieces, which I’m posting here together.
I’m reading with George David Clark and Ryan Wilson at Loganberry Books on June 13, at 6:00 pm, hosted by Elijah Blumov.
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!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae
– 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
– The Madness of Hercules by Seneca, trans. Dana Gioia
– Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
– High Windows by Philip Larkin
– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
– Grendel by John Gardner
– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
– That time Abraham smashed a bunch of icons
– That time the Taliban blew up a UNESCO World Heritage Site
– Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae
– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae
– The SLRCKTS ep about the Toby Martinez de las Rivas controversy
– From Titan/All Is Still by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Cornel West
– Christian Wiman
– Jay Wright
– Elizabeth Jennings
– Simone Weil
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
55 min
June 09, 2024 UNLOCKED: Shane McCrae Interview, Pt. 2
NB: After I recorded the intro and edited the three parts together, Squarespace informed me that it couldn’t host the entire interview in one post, or even in two, so I’m breaking it back up into three pieces, which I’m posting here together.
I’m reading with George David Clark and Ryan Wilson at Loganberry Books on June 13, at 6:00 pm, hosted by Elijah Blumov.
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!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae
– 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
– The Madness of Hercules by Seneca, trans. Dana Gioia
– Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
– High Windows by Philip Larkin
– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
– Grendel by John Gardner
– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
– That time Abraham smashed a bunch of icons
– That time the Taliban blew up a UNESCO World Heritage Site
– Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae
– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae
– The SLRCKTS ep about the Toby Martinez de las Rivas controversy
– From Titan/All Is Still by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Cornel West
– Christian Wiman
– Jay Wright
– Elizabeth Jennings
– Simone Weil
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
53 min
June 09, 2024 REPOST: Shane McCrae Interview, Pt. 1
NB: After I recorded the intro and edited the three parts together, Squarespace informed me that it couldn’t host the entire interview in one post, or even in two, so I’m breaking it back up into three pieces, which I’m posting here together.
I’m reading with George David Clark and Ryan Wilson at Loganberry Books on June 13, at 6:00 pm, hosted by Elijah Blumov.
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!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae
– 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
– The Madness of Hercules by Seneca, trans. Dana Gioia
– Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
– High Windows by Philip Larkin
– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
– Grendel by John Gardner
– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
– That time Abraham smashed a bunch of icons
– That time the Taliban blew up a UNESCO World Heritage Site
– Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae
– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae
– The SLRCKTS ep about the Toby Martinez de las Rivas controversy
– From Titan/All Is Still by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Cornel West
– Christian Wiman
– Jay Wright
– Elizabeth Jennings
– Simone Weil
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
June 01, 2024 UNLOCKED Secret Show Ep: Paging Dr. Platzmouth
NB: The reading is at 6:00 pm! The reading is at 6:00 pm!
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!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– I’m reading with George David Clark and Ryan Wilson at Loganberry Books on June 13, at 6:00 pm, hosted by Elijah Blumov
– Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
– HGTV
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 10 min
May 24, 2024 UNLOCKED Secret Show Ep: Give up, Dash
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– 32 Poems
– The Oracles by A. E. Housman
– On the Rocks by Christopher Childers
– The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde
– Eratosphere
– All Up in Your Ears (Jonathan’s old podcast)
– Sappho / Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments, trans. Aaron Poochigian
– Ethan McGuire
– Zara Raab
– Matt Wall
– The Newburyport Literary Festival
– The Great Outdoor Fight
– The West Chester Poetry Conference
– Poetry by the Sea
– Able Muse
– Alex Pepple
– Shane McCrae
– Jeff Colosino
– The Banshees of Inisherin
– Michael Collins
– The Wind that Shakes the Barley
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 12 min
May 17, 2024 UNLOCKED Secret Show Ep: Bat Sh*t
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Come see a slew of poets, including me, at Suite in Morningside Heights in NYC on Sunday May 19 at 3:00 p.m. and join afterward for food/drinks!
– A. E. Stallings’ Oxford Professor of Poetry lecture that definitely wasn’t inspired by this episode
– The Northman Takes History, Spirituality, and Young Men Seriously by Ethan McGuire
– What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel
– The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell
– Snark & Blurb: A Dialogue by A. E. Stallings
– The Art of the Blurb by Jason Guriel
– Frank the Bunny Man
– Jacob and Esau
– All I Do Is Win by DJ Khaled
– Larry King asks DJ Khaled a thoughtful question
– Who Gets to Write What? by Kaitlyn Greenidge
– Lionel Shriver’s sombrero speech
– The Bohr model of the atom
– Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O’Neill
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer, @poetry_says
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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 26 min
May 11, 2024 Ep 151: The Sand Trap
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Come see a slew of poets, including me, at Suite in Morningside Heights in NYC on Sunday May 19 at 3:00 p.m. and join afterward for food/drinks!
– Near the Summer Pavilion by Morri Creech
– The Sentence by Morri Creech
– For My Father: A Sonnet Redouble by Alexis Sears
– The Swimmer by John Cheever
– Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
– American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
– Mr. Flood’s Party by E. A. Robinson
– Sonnet 60
– Sir Thomas Wyatt
– The nightmarish antlion
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 25 min
April 27, 2024 Ep 150: Against Literary Citizenship, ft. Only Poems
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Only Poems
– The Only Poems Newsletter
– The Only Poems Prize
– Karan Kapoor
– Shannan Mann
– Sea Oak by George Saunders
– Rattle
– Tim Green
– William Logan
– December (magazine)
– Maggie Smith
– Nikki Giovanni’s interview with James Baldwin
– Sylvia Plath
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s final book
– Smokelong Quarterly
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 21 min