SLEERICKETS

By Matthew Buckley SmithArts Books

SLEERICKETS episodes

April 19, 2024 Ep 149: Owls in the Desert
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:
– The Antarctica episode of Poetry Says
– Champagne Sharks
– Roadhouse (2024)
– A partial recording of Brian’s discussion with Angela Yee’s book club
– Secret Show Ep 88. Keeping the Wall Wet, ft. Versecraft
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 35 min
April 12, 2024 Ep 148: Tell Me You’re Not Starting a Reading Series, ft. Ernie Hilbert
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:
– Storm Swimmer by Ernest Hilbert
– Larry Robin
– Timothy Donnelly
– Fergie’s Pub
– 32 Poems
– No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
– Andrew Palmer
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– 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 1 min
April 06, 2024 Ep 147: The Sears & Pearson Dope Chill School for Wack Daughters, ft. Alexis & Joanna
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:
– Buy Out of Order by Alexis Sears!
– Rate Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson!
– The Friendship Challenge by Mary Gaitskill
– My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
– Michael B. Jordan interviewed by high school bully
– The Secret Show Episode previewed at the end
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– 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
March 29, 2024 Ep 146: How Gay Was Shakespeare?
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
We’ve got new stickers! Free for Secret Show subscribers.
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:
– Queering Shakespeare by Sandra Newman
– Was Shakespeare Gay? by Emma Glanfield
– Sonnet 18
– Sonnet 20
– Sonnet 73
– Sonnet 116
– The Secret Show episode where we talk about the trans letter
– ContraPoints on Twilight
– The Pine Planters by Thomas Hardy

Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– 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 9 min
March 24, 2024 Ep 145: Listen, Eavesdroppers, ft. Jonathan Farmer
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
We’ve got new stickers! Free for Secret Show subscribers.
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:
– Jonathan’s selection of poems by Lucille Clifton
– Unsparing Truths: On Lucille Clifton by Jordan Davis
– Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, ed. Charles Henry Rowell
– Kevin Young
– The Committee Weighs in by Andrea Cohen
– Katharine Cristiani
– The Secret Show episode previewed at the end

Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– 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 5 min
March 17, 2024 Ep 144: 32 Poems, No. 42, Winter 2024
NB: 32 Poems was in fact founded by *both* Deborah Ager and John Poch in 2003ish.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
We’ve got new stickers! Free for Secret Show subscribers.
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:
– My Upcoming Conversation w/ Jimmy Pappas & Friends this Thursday, March 21, at 7:00 p.m. US Eastern (Zoom Link)
– The Secret Show episode previewed at the end of the episode
– 32 Poems No. 42 Winter 2024
– Deborah Ager
– John Poch
– Hailey Leithauser
– Amit Majmudar
– Stephanie Staab
– Zoe Mays
– More Human Than Human by White Zombie
– Will Cordeiro
– Wayne Miller
– George David Clark
– Elisabeth Clark
– Kay Ryan
– Kevin Young
– The Bridal Morn (anonymous medieval fragment)
– Greg Williamson
– The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
– Caitlin Doyle
– Caitlin Doyle’s interview with Amit Majmudar
– Insomnia by Elizabeth Bishop
– Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae
– Sex Elegy by Terence Winch
– Sonnet 30
– In My Father’s Footsteps by Sebastian Matthews
– The Bar at the Andover Inn by William Matthews
– Coming Down in Ohio by Dave Smith
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Morri Creech
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– 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
March 08, 2024 Ep 143: The Problems of Three Little People
NB: Another good example of me using corollary wrong.
Also, apparently Airea D. Matthews has a conflict, but it should still be a pretty good show!
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
We’ve got new stickers! Free for Secret Show subscribers.
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:
– The E-Verse Equinox Reading in Philadelphia coming up on Wednesday, March 13 (Facebook event page)
– Past Lives
– Casablanca
– The Before Trilogy
– Dirty Pretty Things
– Reality Bites
– The Bridges of Madison County
– Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson
Frequently mentioned names:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
– Joanna Pearson
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 by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
1 hr 40 min
March 02, 2024 Ep 142: Burn After Weaving
NB: Apparently the Baron-Cohens are cousins, not brothers.
Also, apparently petit-maitre means fop. Fucking French.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
We’ve got new stickers! Free for Secret Show subscribers.
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:
– Poetry Says Ep 256. Antarctica
– Helena Feder
– The Empathy of Joseph Stalin by Boyd Tonkin
– Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
– The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
– Simon Baron-Cohen
– Henry V (1989)
– Henry V (1944)
– Henry V (1599)
– Batman (1989)
– The Stalin Epigram by Osip Mandelstam
– The new issue of 32 Poems
– Tres Riches Heures du duc de Berry
– Adrian Noble
– Sorrow-Acre by Isak Dinesen
– The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles by A. E. Stallings
– Penelope and the Watching Fire by Shane McCrae
– Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
– Quincy Lehr and the canon poem
– The Iliad
– The Odyssey
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
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 by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
1 hr 24 min
February 23, 2024 Ep 141: Placebo Workshop
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
We’ve got new stickers! Free for Secret Show subscribers.
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:
– The E-Verse Equinox Reading in Philadelphia coming up on Wednesday, March 13 (Facebook event page)
– Gwendolyn Brooks’ Selected
– Alcaeus 38a, trans. Christopher Childers
– Horace iv.7, trans. A. E. Housman
– Horace i.4, trans. Christopher Childers
– Past Lives
– The Before Trilogy
– Dirty Pretty Things
– Reality Bites
– The Bridges of Madison County
– The horrible wedding article
– Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
– Ernie Hilbert
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 by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
54 min
February 15, 2024 Ep 140: Demography Bee
NB: Ron Silliman is not a professor. He’s a retired market analyst.
Also, to be clear, what I meant was “…his brilliant and talented wife Angela, who [sic] I would love to get on [the show] sometime…” Obviously. Sorry, Angela.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here!
We’ve got new stickers! Free for Secret Show subscribers.
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:
– The E-Verse Equinox Reading in Philadelphia coming up on Wednesday, March 13 (Facebook event page)
– Ernie Hilbert
– Airea D. Matthews
– Timothy Donnelly
– Steve Teare
– Angela Fleury
– Don Share
– The Share/Dickman Debacle
– Catherine Tuffariello
– Commercial Poetry
– Eratosphere
– Kevin Young
– M. A. Griffiths
– Incel Jargon
– VIDA
– Ron Silliman
– Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
– Raphael
– Giorgio Vasari
– Publication — is the Auction by Emily Dickinson
Frequent topics:
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– A. E. Stallings
– Ryan Wilson
– Austin Allen
– Jonathan Farmer
– Zara Raab
– Ethan McGuire
– Coleman Glenn
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
– Alex Pepple
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 by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
1 hr 28 min