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SLEERICKETS episodes

March 23, 2023 Ep 101: Lucky Ruins, ft. Stephen Marche
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche
– Carmine Starnino
– Before the Law by Franz Kafka
– The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
– The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
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 21 min
March 15, 2023 Ep 100: Poetry Is Not a Thing
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Shane McCrae
– Morri Creech
– The Performance by James Dickey
– Horace i.37
– Untitled by Katy Lederer
– Othello
– Hamlet
– The New Formalism episode and its Secret Show second half
– The Forbidden Episode 55
– Faust
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
Other ratbag poetry podcasts:
I Hate Matt Wall
Versecraft
1 hr 8 min
March 09, 2023 Ep 99: The Arthur C. Brooks Distinguished Professor of 4 Secrets to Happiness
NB: Sorry, the sound came out a little fucked up on this one. Tried to smooth it as much as possible in post. With luck it’s still intelligible.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– What Not to Ask Me About My Long COVID by Jennifer Senior
– John Fetterman and the Performance of Wellness by Jennifer Senior
– Matt Wall
– Poems about Fucking by Matt Wall
– Secret Show Ep 32. Give Up, Dash
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 14 min
March 04, 2023 Ep 98: Meaning What? Pt. 2
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Alderman by Marilyn Nelson
– Balance by Marilyn Nelson (included in Brian Brodeur’s mini-anthology, see link below)
– Do Not Delete! (Brian’s informal anthology of New Formalists)
– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
– Good Bones by Maggie Smith
– You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Dan Kois
– Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
– Fleishman Is in Trouble (TV Series)
– Brian & MBS discuss Thomas Ligotti
– The Malignant Matrix by Thomas Ligotti
– Soren Wheeler
– Richard Cory by E. A. Robinson
– Richard Cory by Simon & Garfunkel
– On Writing & Failure by Stephen Marche
– The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
– The Homeplace by Marilyn Nelson
– To Crawl Under the Earth: The Persistence of Expansive Poetry by Brian Brodeur
– Some Problems with Autobiography by Brian Brodeur
– Ep 90: Neo-Georgian Hellscape
– To an Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman
– Drawing Hands by Greg Williamson
– Elijah Blumofe
– Matt Wall
– Shane McCrae
– R. S. Gwynn
– Joshua Mehigan
– Austin Allen
– Ryan Wilson
– A. E. Stallings
– Marilyn Nelson
– Mary Jo Salter
– Anthony Hecht
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 1 min
March 02, 2023 Ep 97: Meaning What? Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Good Bones by Maggie Smith
– You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Dan Kois
– Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
– Fleishman Is in Trouble (TV Series)
– Brian & MBS discuss Thomas Ligotti
– The Malignant Matrix by Thomas Ligotti
– Soren Wheeler
– Richard Cory by E. A. Robinson
– Richard Cory by Simon & Garfunkel
– On Writing & Failure by Stephen Marche
– The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
– The Homeplace by Marilyn Nelson
– Alderman by Marilyn Nelson
– Balance by Marilyn Nelson (included in Brian Brodeur’s mini-anthology, see link below)
– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
– To Crawl Under the Earth: The Persistence of Expansive Poetry by Brian Brodeur
– Do Not Delete! (Brian’s informal anthology of New Formalists)
– Some Problems with Autobiography by Brian Brodeur
– Ep 90: Neo-Georgian Hellscape
– Elijah Blumofe
– Matt Wall
– Shane McCrae
– R. S. Gwynn
– Joshua Mehigan
– Austin Allen
– Ryan Wilson
– A. E. Stallings
– Marilyn Nelson
– Mary Jo Salter
– Anthony Hecht
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
56 min
February 23, 2023 Ep 96: We Love You Get Up Pt. 1, ft. Brian Brodeur
NB: The book I couldn’t remember the title of is Field Knowledge by Morri Creech. It’s so good. Buy it!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– To Crawl Under the Earth: The Persistence of Expansive Poetry by Brian Brodeur
– Do Not Delete! (Brian’s informal anthology of New Formalists)
– Some Problems with Autobiography by Brian Brodeur
– Ep 90: Neo-Georgian Hellscape
– Mrs. Baumeister by Brian Brodeur
– Gerard Manley Hopkins
– Bill Coyle
– R. S. Gwynn
– Rhina Espaillat
– Joshua Mehigan
– David Mason
– Austin Allen
– Alexis Sears
– Taylor Byas
– Ryan Wilson
– Dana Gioia
– A. E. Stallings
– David Yezzi
– Jenna Le
– Nausheen Eusef
– Natasha Trethewey
– Erica Dawson
– Alexander Pepple
– Alfred Nicol
– Marilyn Nelson
– Mary Jo Salter
– Sharon Olds
– Herbert White by Frank Bidart
– First Death in Nova Scotia by Elizabeth Bishop
– Anthony Hecht
– Able Muse Winter 22/23
– The Grapes by Anthony Hecht
– Jonathan Farmer
– Lana Turner Has Collapsed by Frank O’Hara
– James Wright
– The Dead by James Joyce
– Two Tramps in Mud Time by Robert Frost
– A Letter to Leena by Mary Jo Salter
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 15 min
February 16, 2023 Ep 95: The Great Indoor Fight
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde
– Lines by Alice Oswald
– Geoffrey Hill’s Oxford lectures
– Simon Armitage’s Oxford lectures
– Ange Mlinko’s essay on Adrienne Rich
– Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
– Eratosphere
– Old Joy
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 15 min
February 10, 2023 Ep 94: Ice-Nine Time, ft. Austin Allen
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Pleasures of the Game by Austin Allen
– The Amateur, The Professional, and The Citizen by Austin Allen
– Death to the Death of Poetry by Donald Hall
– Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month by Matthew Walther
– Kwame Alexander
– Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
– Brad Leithauser
– Walt Whitman
– Seamus Heaney
– John Ashbery
– Ishion Hutchinson
– Vahni Capildeo
– Marilyn Hacker
– Martin Corless-Smith
– The Rat by Don Paterson
– The Swing by Don Paterson
– A. E. Stallings
– Joshua Mehigan
– Shane McCrae
– Ashley Anna McHugh
– Billy Coyle
– Marilyn Nelson
– What Is Minor Poetry? T. S. Eliot
– Good Bones by Maggie Smith
– Rape Joke Patricia Lockwood
– Bullet Points by Jericho Brown
– Summa Vitae Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam by Ernest Dowson
– Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson
– The Fury of Aerial Bombardment by Richard Eberhart
– The Groundhog by Richard Eberhart
– The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
– This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin
– The Lake-Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats
– Larkin at Sixty by Eric McHenry
– Philip Metres
– John T. Irwin
– Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
– Mary Jo Salter
– Literary Matters
– Ryan Wilson
– Amit Majmudar
– David Rakoff
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 19 min
February 01, 2023 Ep 93: Intellectual Cooties
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Has Academia Ruined Literary Criticism? by Merve Emre
– Nic Pizzolato
– Alice McDermott
– David Milch
– The Madman by Friedrich Nietzsche
– Purity by Thomas Ligotti
– Matt Wall
– A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
– The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim
– Into the Woods
– Duplex by Kathryn Davis
– Donald Barthelme
– George Saunders
– James Baldwin
– Toni Morrison
– Mary Jo Salter
– Able Muse Review
– A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
– The Banshees of Inisherin
– Dogtooth
– A Serious Man
– H. P. Lovecraft
– Struggle Session’s discussion of Thomas Ligotti
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 31 min
January 26, 2023 Ep 92: The Good Word, ft. Philip Metres
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Shrapnel Maps by Philip Metres
– Versecraft by Elijah Blumhofe
– (More) News from Poems: Investigative / Documentary / Social Poetics On the Tenth Anniversary of the Publication of From Reznikoff to Public Enemy by Philip Metres
– Black Lives Matter and the Poetics of Justice by Philip Metres
– If We Must Die by Claude McKay
– Writers in Residence
– Jonathan Farmer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Email (Cameron): CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 29 min