SLEERICKETS

By Matthew Buckley Smith

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

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SLEERICKETS episodes:

January 04, 2023 Ep 89: Blood & Big Dicks
NB: (1.) Arguably the entire useful part of Matthew Walther’s thesis has already been articulated more pithily on numerous occasions by Matt Wall.
(2.) The reason I laughed at Eric Smith’s list of contemporary poets he loves is that instead of providing their names, he simply tags 11 Twitter handles.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month by Matthew Walther
– Amit Majmudar
– Twitter personality Eric Smith
– Good poet Eric Smith
– The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
– The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
– Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot
– Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
– The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth
– Sonnet—To Science by Edgar Allan Poe
– To the Muses by William Blake
– Lovejoy Street by A. E. Stallings
– Alan Shapiro
– Shane McCrae
– Joshua Mehigan
– Ethan McGuire
– Ryan Wilson
– Jonathan Farmer
– Donahue’s Sister by Thom Gunn
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 2min
December 29, 2022 Ep 88: Class Outside
NB: Also, we had to jury-rig the sound for this one, so it ends up being a little clippy at times. Sorry!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Car Crash While Hitchhiking by Denis Johnson
– Essay on Iron by Amit Majmudar
– Ep 78. I’m Charlemagne, ft. Amit Majmudar
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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58min
December 20, 2022 Ep 87: Death of a Goldfish, ft. Jonathan Farmer
NB: On the road tomorrow, so I’m releasing this now!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– That Peculiar Affirmative by Jonathan Farmer
– A Kindred Feeling: An Interview with Matthew Buckley Smith by Jonathan Farmer
– The Best American Poetry 2022, ed. David Lehman, guest ed. Matthew Zapruder
– Blackness Visible by Jonathan Farmer
– All We Can Say: On Politics by Jonathan Farmer
– Inaugural by Jericho Brown
– Weather by Claudia Rankine
– Bullet Points by Jericho Brown
– Zoom Rooms by Mary Jo Salter
– In the Cloud by Rachel Hadas
– The Stain A. E. Stallings
– My Life by Matthew Zapruder
– An Apology for Poetry by Philip Sidney
– A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 24min
December 15, 2022 Ep 86: Rankine v. Hoagland Revisited
NB: IT’S RYAN’S BIRTHDAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!!!!!!!!!!!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Versecraft: Paradiso XIV, 63 by Matthew Buckley Smith
– The I Hate Matt Wall Podcast: What is your Poetry? w/ Matthew Buckley Smith
– Ep 84: Ask Richard Pryor, ft. John Dilworth
– The Change by Tony Hoagland
– Open Letter: A Dialogue on Race and Poetry by Claudia Rankine
– Dear Claudia: A Letter in Response by Tony Hoagland
– The Health of Us by Claudia Rankine
– Weather by Claudia Rankine
– What It Is by Reginald Dwayne Betts
– White Like Me
– I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked. by Claudia Rankine
– The White Card by Claudia Rankine
– Red by John Logan
– Why Women Aren’t Funny by Christopher Hitchens
– [Even the most kindhearted white woman] by Terrance Hayes
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
...more
1h 5min
December 15, 2022 Ep 85: Dying Is Easy
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Front Row’s list of The 10 Biggest Risks in 21st Century Art
– Punk Prayer by Pussy Riot
– Big Brother
– Attempted 1.0 by Skengdo and AM
– salt. by Selina Thompson
– Jerry Springer: The Opera by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee
– Four Lions by Chris Morris
– Dead Soldier by Mark McGowan
– Lemonade by Beyonce
– Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
– The 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony
– The Real World
– Candid Camera
– The video for Lessons Learned by Matt & Kim
– The Birth of Venus by Botticelli
– The David by Michelangelo
– On my First Son by Ben Jonson
– Ariel by Silvia Plath
– Bed-Stuy Is Burning by Brian Platzer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h
December 07, 2022 Ep 85: Dying Is Easy
B, C, and M discuss the meaning of risk in art.
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1h
December 01, 2022 Ep 84: Ask Richard Pryor, ft. John Dilworth
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– A Collection of Collections: Black American Poetry by John F. Dilworth
– Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia
– Americans Have Never Loved Poetry More But They Call It Rap by John McWhorter
– Richard Pryor
– Aesop Rock
– The Calling of St. Matthew by Caravaggio
– Ep 82. The Statue of Responsibility (The one about Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl)
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 23min
November 23, 2022 Ep 83: Dumb Colonialist Baby
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles
– Manly Conclusions by Mary Hood
– Egnaro by M. John Harrison
– The Zahir by Jorge Luis Borges
– A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
– The Bear
– The White Lotus
– The Renegade by Shirley Jackson
– I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
...more
1h 16min
November 17, 2022 Ep 82: The Statue of Responsibility
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Sarah Silverman on Martin Luther King
– Berlin Diary by William Shirer
– In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
– Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
– Night by Elie Wiesel
– Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
– Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
– A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn
– How to Tell a True War Story by Tim O’Brien
– More Light! More Light! by Anthony Hecht
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 14min
November 10, 2022 Ep 81: The Eliza Effect, ft. Carmine Starnino
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Poetry Says Ep 200. Anti-Insights
– Elizabeth Morgan House
– I Hate Matt Wall Podcast Ep. 25 & 26 – Matthew Buckley Smith
– Ep 72 & 73: Let’s Get Difficult
– Ep 76: Fake Winners & Sore Losers
– Ep 60: Too Many Manifestos
– Joshua Mehigan’s poetry classes
– Carl Phillips
– Geoffrey Hill
– Aaron Irwin
– Carmine Starnino
– Dirty Words by Carmine Starnino
– Lazy Bastardism by Carmine Starnino
– Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference by Carmine Starnino
– Of Gods and Machines by Stephen Marche
– Peter Van Toorn
– Black Mirror S2E1: Be Right Back
– The Sokal Hoax
– The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
– Christian Bok
– Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges
– The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
– The Art of Recklessness by Dean Young
– The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
– Elegy by Edna St. Vincent Millay
– Mr. Flood’s Party by E. A. Robinson
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
...more
1h 23min

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