SLEERICKETS

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SLEERICKETS episodes

December 02, 2023 Ep 129: We Must Not Say So, ft. Andrew Wittstadt, Pt. 1
NB: Holy shit, my chair is creaking a lot in the intro. Sorry about that, I’ll try to turn down the input next time.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Heavy Bored by Andrew Wittstadt (also on Instagram, TikTok, and Patreon)
– Capital Improvements: The Initial Caps Wars by Maryann Corbett
– Dream Song 14 by John Berryman
– The editor’s note from the October issue of Poetry Magazine
– The DNC
– Button Poetry
– James Matthew Wilson
– Scribbled in the Dark by Charles Simic
– The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
– Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
– The Go to Horny Jail meme
– Glenn Loury
– John McWhorter
– Rupi Kaur
– Atticus
– Nancy Pelosi et al. kneeling in Kente cloth
– Feminine Chaos
– Jagged Little Pill
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
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
Ratbag Poetics
1 hr
November 23, 2023 Ep 128: First Thought Sexiest Thought
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
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Preorder Joanna’s new book!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Couplets by Maggie Millner
– Bluets by Maggie Nelson
– Blue (Three Colours)
– Compartment No. 6
– The Before Trilogy
– Chasing Amy
– The Undying by Anne Boyer
– The Bachelor by Andrew Palmer
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
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
Ratbag Poetics
1 hr 13 min
November 17, 2023 Ep 127: The Mercy Rule, Pt. 1
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Preorder Joanna’s new book!
– My poem for Cameron
– SLEERICKETS invades Versecraft: Part 1 & Part 2
– If I were built by Brian Platzer & Andrew Palmer
– Caitlin Moran fixes masculinity
– The Secret Show episode that talks about Neruda’s sexual predation
– In Praise of Boredom by Joseph Brodsky
– On Being Bored by Adam Phillips
– This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
– Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abelard
– The Malory Towers books
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
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
Ratbag Poetics
54 min
October 13, 2023 Ep 126: Sassy Kids, ft. Alexis Sears, Pt. 1
NB: The main show will be on hiatus for the next month or so. In the meantime, the Secret Show will stay up with weekly episodes!
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Out of Order by Alexis Sears
– The Kindergarten Teacher
– Maggie Gyllenhaal
– Parker Sevak
– Michael Chernus
– Gael Garcia Bernal
– Rosa Salazar
– Ocean Vuong
– Kaveh Akbar
– Party for One by Magic Al & Lou Hazel, ft. Amelia Meath
– The Macarena by Los Del Río
– Stephen Kampa
– Dominique Townsend
– The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
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
– Alexis Sears
– JP Gritton
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 2 min
October 04, 2023 Ep 125: The Reheater of Memories
NB: As Shane informed me after I released this episode, it turns out Pablo Neruda raped a woman. This is horrible, obviously.
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda, trans. Tomas Morin
– Howl by Allen Ginsberg
– Ars Poetica by Christian Wiman
– None by Hayden Carruth
– Declaration by Tracy K. Smith
– The Ferguson Report: An Erasure by Nicole Sealey
– Short Conversations with Poets: Ben Lerner by Jesse Nathan
– Eggtooth by Jesse Nathan
– The Giver by Lois Lowry
– The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin
– David Jalal/Motamed/Ratbag Poetics
– Franz Wright
– The Suffering Channel by David Foster Wallace
– Making the Cut Season 3
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
– Alexis Sears
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 13 min
September 29, 2023 Ep 124: Jesus Envy, Pt. 1
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
– Dr. Elizabeth Brient
– Alice Oswald
– The Guardian article on Nietzsche
– The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
– Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
– Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
– The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
– Oldest Mortal Myth by Joanna Pearson
– Jordan Peterson
– The Beatitudes
– Abortion ep w/ Matilda: Pt. 1 & Pt. 2
– That one old episode with Brian: Pt. 1 & Pt. 2
– The conversation with Elijah in which we discuss Homer (I think?): Pt. 1 & Pt. 2
– Macbeth
– Othello
– The Iliad
– Wilfred Owen
– Freud
– Marx
– Darwin
– Walter Kaufmann
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
– Alexis Sears
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 20 min
September 20, 2023 Ep 123: Come Back, Bill
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
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NB: Alice and I (and possibly Brian?) will be at Dick & Jane’s Cocktail Bar on Adelphi St. in Brooklyn on the evening of Wed, Sept 20. Come join us!
NB #2: For some reason I use in this episode the annoyingly-now-preferred expression “die by suicide” about which I’ve previously complained. What the fuck?
NB #3: Ha ha, just kidding. I’m literally leaving for the Dick & Jane’s the second I post this, so I hope you’re already on your way!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The God of This World to His Prophet by Bill Coyle
– Andre Hulet
– Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson
– My Special Fate by John Berryman
– Homage to Mistress Bradstreet by John Berryman
– The Wilmington Ghost Tour (ask for Anthony)
– Hakan Sandell
– Kolmarden Zoo by Billy Coyle
– The God of This World to His Prophet (poem) by Billy Coyle
– Aubade by Bill Coyle
– Pacific by Bill Coyle
– Disaster by Bill Coyle
– Sleeper by Bill Coyle
– Contra Dante (Kind of) by Bill Coyle
– Elijah’s Versecraft episode on Contra Dante
– To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing by W. B. Yeats
– Aubade by Philip Larkin
– Chicxulub by T. C. Boyle
– Now winter nights enlarge by Thomas Campion
– Don’t Look Up
– A Friend’s Work by Bill Coyle
– Lynn Chandhok
– The Soundman’s Funeral by Bill Coyle
– Improvisation by Bill Coyle
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
– Alexis Sears
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 15 min
September 14, 2023 Ep 122: The Sore Thumb Crisis, ft. Ernie Hilbert, Pt. 1
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
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NB: Alice and I (and possibly Brian?) will be at Dick & Jane’s Cocktail Bar on Adelphi St. in Brooklyn on the evening of Wed, Sept 20. Come join us!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Storm Swimmer by Ernest Hilbert
– The iTunes/Apple Podcasts SLEERICKETS page
– The cover of my forthcoming book, Midlife, designed by Daniel
– Rattle/Rattlecast/Timothy Green (the guy we’re talking about at the beginning of the show)
– Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
– The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
– Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Laud Montgomery
– A Colorful History of Judging Books by their Covers by Ernest Hilbert
– The Shocking Novels that Scared the Hell Out of America by Ernest Hilbert
– Lupercal by Ted Hughes
– Sixty Sonnets by Ernest Hilbert
– All of You on the Good Earth Ernest Hilbert
– Caligulan by Ernest Hilbert
– Last One Out by Ernest Hilbert
– Easter Wings by George Herbert
– The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy
– Maxwell Perkins
– Wave Books
– Faber & Faber
– Matthew Wright
– The Philadelphia Sun Oil Building
– Jantech Services (makers of the Caligulan sign)
– Ernie’s introduction to Classic Tales of Horror
– The Alien title sequence
– Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
– Franco Salas Borquez
– Anamorphosis
– The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger
– The Richard Wilbur Award
– The New Criterion Poetry Prize
– Waywiser Books
– Laid paper
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
– Alexis Sears
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 11 min
September 07, 2023 Ep 121: Fetal Poppy Syndrome, Pt. 1
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Never Rarely Sometimes Always
– 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
– Punch-Drunk Love
– Blackfish
– The Yeah Nah article
– John Forbes
– Helen Garner
– Kath Kenny
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
1 hr 10 min
August 31, 2023 Ep 120: Picking Up the Phone, ft. Dr. Taylor Byas
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
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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
1 hr 17 min