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SLEERICKETS episodes

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
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
57 min
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.
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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
– 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
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 3 min
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:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
55 min
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:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 15 min
April 26, 2023 Ep 106: A Winters Tale, Pt. 1, ft. Elijah Blumov
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– 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:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 36 min
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
More Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 1 min
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!
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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
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 10 min
April 07, 2023 Ep 103: Most Excellent Schmancy, ft. Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Unreadability, Pts. I, II, and III by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
– Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
– Nightboat Books
– Futurepoem
– birth school work death by Alice Allan
– David Melnick
– Three Poems by John Ashbery
– Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
– Fernando Pessoa
– Robert Hayden
– Dennis Cooper
– James Schuyler
– Air the Trees by Larry Eigner
– Douglas Kearney
– Fonograf Editions
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
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 14 min
March 30, 2023 Ep 102: Cosmic Drop Bear Pt. 1, ft. Elijah Perseus Blumov
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Elijah’s podcast Versecraft
– The Pathetic Fallacy by Anthony Hecht
– The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
– Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
– Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
– Brand by Henrik Ibsen
– A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
– The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
– Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
– The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth
– The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
– The Ghost in the Martini 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
Other ratbag poetry podcasts:
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 2 min
March 27, 2023 BONUS: The Masturbuilders Pt. 1, ft. Jimmy Smith
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
– Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis Kahn by John Lobell
– Frank Gehry
– Frank Lloyd Wright
– George Costanza, Architect
– Mister Ed
– The Brady Bunch
– 500 Days of Summer
– Jungle Fever
– Louis Kahn
– Giuseppe Terragni
– The Danteum
– Albert Speer
– Thomas Jefferson
– The Divine Comedy
– On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche
– Philip Metres
– Viktor Frankl
– Santiago Calatrava Valls
– The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
– Fallingwater
– Taliesin
– Le Corbusier (Sometimes my dad calls him Corbu because he’s hip and in the know)
– Zaha Hadid
– Claude Levi-Strauss
– Ferdinand de Saussure
– Jacques Derrida
– Michelangelo
– Alexander Pope
– The Dunciad by Alexander Pope
– The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
– Counterpart
– Looper
– The Magus by John Fowles
– Amit Majmudar
– Knives Out and Glass Onion
– Hermann Goering
– Nomadland
– The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
– Kiss & Tell by Alain de Botton
– The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
– Emily Dickinson Letter 459a (couldn’t find the full text online when I looked for it the second time)
– Democracy and Poetry by Robert Penn Warren
– Alice in the Looking Glass by A. E. Stallings
– Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
– Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
– A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles
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
Other ratbag poetry podcasts:
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
41 min