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SLEERICKETS episodes

January 19, 2023 Ep 91: We’re Dying, Mate
NB: I twice, inexplicably claim that the name “Sestius” doesn’t appear in David Ferry’s translation of Horace i.4. It obviously does.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Hyperbole by Belinda Rule
– Pam Brown
– Ken Bolton
– John Forbes
– Louise Gluck
– The Sewanee Review
– Good poet and editor Eric Smith
– Sick Leave
– Harry Reid
– Mitch Hedberg
– Steven Wright
– William Logan
– Alice’s conversation with Harry Reid
– Horace ii.14
– Horace i.6
– Horace iv.2
– Horace i.4
– Alice’s fantastic two-part John Forbes Episode
– The Odes of Horace trans. David Ferry
– The Essential Horace trans. Burton Raffel
– Death, an Ode by John Forbes
– The David Ferry interview in Literary Matters
– Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
– Andrew Zawacki
– Brian Henry
– A. E. Housman
– Philip Larkin
– A. E. Stallings
– Alan Shapiro
– Shane McCrae
– Joshua Mehigan
– Ethan McGuire
– Ryan Wilson
– Jonathan Farmer
– Pindar
– Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
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Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 4 min
January 12, 2023 Ep 90: Neo-Georgian Hellscape
NB: At one point I say Housman when I obviously mean Larkin.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Neo-Formalism: A Dangerous Nostalgia by Ira Sadoff
– To Crawl Under the Earth: The Persistence of Expansive Poetry by Brian Brodeur
– What you look hard at tends to look hard at you by Geoffrey Hill
– The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
– The Country I Remember: A Narrative by David Mason
– A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
– L’Estraneo by Ryan Wilson
– Authority by Ryan Wilson
– Eratosphere
– Ishion Hutchinson
– Amit Majmudar
– Aaron Poochigian
– The Vigil by Aaron Poochigian
– R. S. Gwynn
– Crow by Ted Hughes
– A. E. Housman
– Philip Larkin
– John Whitworth
– William Blake
– A. E. Stallings
– Rapper’s Delight by The Sugar Hill Gang
– Alan Shapiro
– Shane McCrae
– Joshua Mehigan
– Ethan McGuire
– Ryan Wilson
– Jonathan Farmer
– Here dead lie we… by A. E. Housman
– This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin
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Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 20 min
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
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Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 2 min
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
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Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
58 min
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
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Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 24 min
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
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Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 5 min
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
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Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr
December 07, 2022 Ep 85: Dying Is Easy
B, C, and M discuss the meaning of risk in art.
1 hr
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)
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Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 23 min
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
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Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 16 min