SLEERICKETS

By Matthew Buckley Smith

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

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SLEERICKETS episodes:

February 05, 2022 BONUS: Big Fat Hypotheticals
Twitter: @sleerickets
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 29min
February 02, 2022 Ep 42: A Range of Concerning Behaviors, ft. Kathleen Jones
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The William Goldman episode of Kathleen’s podcast
– Succession
– The Parable of the Talents
– Attachment Theory
– RCIA
– Veep
– The Death of Stalin
– Journalist Orion Jones
– The Kellogg’s strike
– Bad working conditions at Amy’s
– Dr. Patrick Tuite
– Cordelia
– Henry V
– Fred Trump
– Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
– The Real Housewives of New York City
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 23min
January 26, 2022 Ep 41: All Styles Welcome, ft. Austin Allen
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Hard Line Politics by Austin Allen
– Pleasures of the Game by Austin Allen
– Subjects in Poetry by Daniel Brown
– Virginia Woolf and Poetry by Emily Kopley
– If by Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d by John Keats
– The Real Reason All the Top Chess Players Are Men by Wei Ji Ma
– Christian Wiman
– Darwin!
– Cameron!
– Kamau Brathwaite
– Derek Walcott
– My Hollywood by Boris Drayluk
– Out of Order by Alexis Sears
– Swan Song by Armen Davoudian
– Marilyn Nelson
– A Vertical Art by Simon Armitage
– Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
– Audre Lorde
– Kenneth Clark
– Piss Christ by Andres Serrano
– Grapefruit by Yoko Ono
– The Order of Her Room by Austin Allen
– Lovejoy Street by A. E. Stallings
– Living in Sin by Adrienne Rich
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
– The Thistles in Sweden by William Maxwell
– Betrayal by Harold Pinter
– Invitation to the Voyage by Charles Baudelaire
– Bed of Letters by Mary Jo Salter
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 12min
January 19, 2022 Ep 40: Here's What I Wish You Would Read, ft. Mary Jo Salter
NB: SLEERICKETS is looking for a social media intern! If you (or someone you know) enjoy this show and understand Twitter, please send the names of three podcasts you like and three poems you like to [email protected]!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Zoom Rooms by Mary Jo Salter
– The Norton Anthology of Poetry
– No more letters of recommendation
– The Sewanee Writers’ Conference
– Poetry by the Sea
– The West Chester Poetry Conference
– James Arthur is a good guy
– What might have been by Carmine Starnino
– Ripostes by Michael Robbins
– Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
– The New Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Helen Gardner
– Hard Line Politics by Austin Allen
– A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
– The Writers’ Almanac by Garrison Keillor
– April in Spain by John Banville
– The Stuffed Owl, ed. Charles Lee and D. B. Wyndham Lewis
– The Surveyors by Mary Jo Salter
– Straight Man by Richard Russo
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 21min
January 14, 2022 BONUS: Homer-Style, ft. Alice Allan
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Poetry Says by Alice Allan
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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26min
January 12, 2022 Ep 39: Handsome Cool Dudes, ft. Alice Allan
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Poetry Says by Alice Allan
– The Ghost in the Martini by Anthony Hecht
– White Noise by Emma Cline
– The Assistant by Kitty Green
– Rhyme’s Reason by John Hollander
– The double dactyl (actually co-invented by Paul Pascal, not John Hollander!)
– One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzenitsyn
– Jeff Goldblum’s one line in Annie Hall
– Curb Your Enthusiasm’s mantra kerfuffle
– The Inferno
– Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
– The Watts family murders
– Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction by Zadie Smith
– Us by Jordan Peele
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h
January 05, 2022 Ep 38: Your Time Has Come, ft. Jeff Colosino
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Jeff Colosino!
– Encanto
– The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
– The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
– Ep 156. Quitting by Poetry Says
– The Stamp-Collecting Device by Nick Hay
– Universal Paperclips
– Your Time Has Come by Joshua Beckman
– Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa
– Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara
– Actual Air by David Berman
– The Day Lady Died by Frank O’Hara
– Born Yesterday by Philip Larkin
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 3min
December 30, 2021 Ep 37: Seize the Dayquil
NB: I mistakenly say that Robin Williams killed himself in 2015. In fact it was in 2014. Also, I don’t have COVID, but my sinuses are congested. Sorry for sniffing on mic so much.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– My opinionated little brother
– My beautiful, charming wife saw me writing these notes and requested this item verbatim.
– The Alt-Right
– Joe Biden!
– Austin Allen’s essay Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse
– Chess.com’s hilarious new promotional gimmick
– Dead Poets Society vs. World’s Greatest Dad
– Chris M. Arnone’s article How Poetry Made my Corporate Job Awesome
– Randall Jarrell’s poem Next Day
– David Yezzi’s poem The Chain
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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51min
December 23, 2021 Ep 36: Hell Yeah, ft. JP Gritton
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– JP Gritton’s novel Wyoming
– Another good story by JP
– My earlier interview with JP (in transcript form)
– FBoy Island
– Alice McDermott’s book What About the Baby?
– LitHub’s interview with Mat Johnson, All Fiction Is Crime Fiction
– Edgar Allan Poe’s story Murders in the Rue Morgue
– David Yezzi’s essay These are the poems, folks
– Oedipus the King
– Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem Sunday Afternoons
– Walter Mosley’s novel Devil in a Blue Dress
– Chinatown
– Billy Collins’ poem Hangover
– The story of Ugolino in the Inferno
– Jorie Graham’s book Sea Change
– Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 28min
December 15, 2021 Ep 35: Bad Things
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– My recent appearance on Poetry Says
– My class at the Redbud Writing Project
– Good writer Jonathan Farmer
– The 2021 Chess World Championship
– Yeats’ poem Adam’s Curse
– The Touch-Move Rule
– Good writer Shane McCrae
– Frederick Seidel’s poem Victory Parade
– Jay Wright
– Austin Allen’s essay Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse
– Lyn Hejinian, Jorie Graham, Ishion Hutchinson, Martin Corless-Smith
– Anthony Hecht’s poem A Letter
– Oh, no, more Bad Art Friend
– The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man
– Nietzsche’s whole God Is Dead thing
– Karl Jasper’s book Man in the Modern Age
– Philosopher and Nazi Martin Heidegger
– Auden’s poem In Memory of W. B. Yeats
– The Poetic Edda
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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1h 16min

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