SLEERICKETS

By Matthew Buckley Smith

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

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The podcast currently has 295 episodes available.

SLEERICKETS episodes:

June 16, 2023 Ep 113: Jiminy Rickets, ft. Shane McCrae, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– 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
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
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1h 17min
June 09, 2023 Ep 112: LIVE NUDE POEM$, ft. Matt Wall
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Blood Rag
– Let Us Bleed by Bunny Wilde and Matt Wall
– The Bloodshed Review
– On Submission Fees and the Belief that Editors Are Pirates by Jenna Rivieccio
– Narrative Magazine’s extravagant submission fee
– Ethan McGuire
– Joshua Mehigan
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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1h 34min
June 02, 2023 Ep 111: The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Manifesto
NB: Fuck, man, Horace didn’t write sonnets. He wrote odes. I have to get more sleep.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter by Ezra Pound
– The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter by Greg Williamson
– The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
– Root Quarterly
– Joshua Mehigan
– Zara Raab
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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48min
May 25, 2023 Ep 110: Both Sides Eventually, ft. Alexis Sears
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Out of Order by Alexis Sears
– Northwest Review
– Heartbreak Ghazal by Alexis Sears
– Ode to the Heartbreakers by Alexis Sears
– Owning the Masters by Marilyn Nelson
– LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
– The Atheist by Phillis Wheatley
– The Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
– The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
– Flying Home by Ralph Ellison
– Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
– I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
– Langston Hughes
– Husbandry by Matthew Dickman
– Bar Napkin Sonnets by Moira Egan
– Lapis Lazuli by W. B. Yeats
– Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
– Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
– Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell (which I mistakenly call Clouds)
– Lovejoy Street by A. E. Stallings
– The Grapes by Anthony Hecht
– Taylor Byas
– New Year’s by Greg Williamson
– Tritina for Susannah by David Yezzi
– PoetrySoup.com…
– In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz by W. B. Yeats
– Stephen Kampa
– Adam Vines
– The West Branch issue in question
– Franz Wright
– Ryan Wilson
– Zara Raab
– Jonathan Farmer
– Richie Hofmann
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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57min
May 18, 2023 Ep 109: Dog Wedding, ft. Alexis Sears
NB: The eight-line repeating form I for some reason could not recall to save my life is the triolet.
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:
– Out of Order by Alexis Sears
– Northwest Review
– Heartbreak Ghazal by Alexis Sears
– Ode to the Heartbreakers by Alexis Sears
– Owning the Masters by Marilyn Nelson
– Lovejoy Street by A. E. Stallings
– The Grapes by Anthony Hecht
– Taylor Byas
– New Year’s by Greg Williamson
– Tritina for Susannah by David Yezzi
– PoetrySoup.com…
– In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz by W. B. Yeats
– Stephen Kampa
– Adam Vines
– The West Branch issue in question
– Franz Wright
– Ryan Wilson
– Zara Raab
– Jonathan Farmer
– Richie Hofmann
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 3min
May 10, 2023 Ep 108: Getting It Wrong
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Grapes 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
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
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...more
55min
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
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
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1h 15min
April 26, 2023 Ep 106: A Winters Tale, Pt. 1, ft. Elijah Blumov
For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chat!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
– 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:
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...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
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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!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
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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1h 10min

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