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November 17, 2022 Ep 82: The Statue of Responsibility
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Sarah Silverman on Martin Luther King
– Berlin Diary by William Shirer
– In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
– Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
– Night by Elie Wiesel
– Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
– Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
– A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn
– How to Tell a True War Story by Tim O’Brien
– More Light! More Light! by Anthony Hecht
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Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 14 min
November 10, 2022 Ep 81: The Eliza Effect, ft. Carmine Starnino
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Poetry Says Ep 200. Anti-Insights
– Elizabeth Morgan House
– I Hate Matt Wall Podcast Ep. 25 & 26 – Matthew Buckley Smith
– Ep 72 & 73: Let’s Get Difficult
– Ep 76: Fake Winners & Sore Losers
– Ep 60: Too Many Manifestos
– Joshua Mehigan’s poetry classes
– Carl Phillips
– Geoffrey Hill
– Aaron Irwin
– Carmine Starnino
– Dirty Words by Carmine Starnino
– Lazy Bastardism by Carmine Starnino
– Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference by Carmine Starnino
– Of Gods and Machines by Stephen Marche
– Peter Van Toorn
– Black Mirror S2E1: Be Right Back
– The Sokal Hoax
– The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
– Christian Bok
– Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges
– The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
– The Art of Recklessness by Dean Young
– The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
– Elegy by Edna St. Vincent Millay
– Mr. Flood’s Party by E. A. Robinson
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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 23 min
November 10, 2022 Ep 80: The Marathon, ft. Skyzoo
NB: I briefly fucked up the RSS feed, so this episode came down for a minute, but now it’s back! Sorry about that.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Skyzoo
– All the Brilliant Things by Skyzoo
– St. James Liquors by Skyzoo
– Bed-Stuy Is Burning by Brian Platzer
– Bed-Stuy Is Burning by Skyzoo
– Humble Brag by Skyzoo
– Spike Lee Was My Hero, ft. Talib Kweli by Skyzoo
– Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
– URL (Ultimate Rap League)
– Supernatural
– Mos Def
– Talib Kweli
– Spike Lee
– Eminem
– Nas
– Jay-Z
– Black Thought
– Black Thought’s 10-minute freestyle on Hot 97
– Tupac
– Notorious B.I.G.
– Andre 3000
– Miles Davis
– John Coltrane
– Lee Morgan
– Wayne Shorter
– McCoy Tyner
– Clifford Brown
– Cannonball Adderley
– Stanley Turrentine
– Art Blakey
– Freddie Hubbard
– Dexter Gordon
– Champagne Sharks
– Hamilton
– The Rules of Rhyme by Adam Gopnik
– Nina Simone
– Pink Floyd

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Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 6 min
November 03, 2022 Ep 80: The Marathon, ft. Skyzoo
It's not a sprint.
1 hr 6 min
October 26, 2022 Ep 79: French Fries & Urine Pt. 1, ft. Matt Wall
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Matt Wall
– The ALSCW
– Christian Wiman
– Josiah Cox
– Eleanor’s video I go to poetry for clarity and other funny things I heard this week.
– Poetry as Enchantment by Dana Gioia
– Poetry Says Ep 193. Prize Fight
– Dog on a British Airways Airbus 319-100 by Louisa Campbell
– Whoso List to Hunt, I Know Where Is an Hind by Thomas Wyatt
– Rime 190 by Petrarch
– Priamel
– Sappho 16
– The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
– Robert Penn Warren
– Philomela
– The Nymph’s Reply by Walter Ralegh
– They that Haue Power to Hurt by J.H. Prynne
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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
October 20, 2022 Ep 78: I’m Charlemagne, ft. Amit Majmudar
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Essay on Repetition by Amit Majmudar
– Godsong by Amit Majmudar
– Brown Readers, White Classics: A Dialogue
– The Flicker, Not the Flame: E. A. Robinson’s Narrative Compression by Brian Brodeur
– The ALSCW
– Ep 48: Crying Emoji, Fire Emoji, ft. Amit Majmudar
– Ethan McGuire
– Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope
– Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abelard
– A Letter by Anthony Hecht
– The Absurd by Thomas Nagel
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Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 15 min
October 12, 2022 Ep 77: The Flophouse
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Eleanor’s video mocking our difficulty episode!
– Whiplash
– Kim Stafford
– Our Dumb Gender Episode
– Matt Wall
– Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
– Zara Raab
– Shane McCrae
– Joshua Mehigan
– Jonathan Farmer
– Alex McKeown
– Dreamsong 147 by John Berryman
– Dreamsong 150 by John Berryman
– Poetry Says Ep 196. James Jiang
– Poetry Says Ep 194. Learning to Read
– A Momentary Longing to Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead by Kenneth Koch
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Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
59 min
October 05, 2022 Ep 76: Fake Winners & Sore Losers
NB: I neglected to clarify that the other Brad Leithauser essay, The Space of One Breath, was not about the Fifth World Chess Championship but rather the Fifth World Computer Chess Championship. Great essay!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Body Politic by Brian Platzer
– Matt Wall
– Kasparov Beats Deep Thought by Brad Leithauser
– The Space of One Breath by Brad Leithauser
– The Sinquefield Cup
– Magnus Carlsen
– Hans Niemann
– Ding Liren
– Ian Neponiachtchi
– Hikaru Nakamura
– Alireza Firouzja
– Richard Rapport
– Judit Polgar
– The If I Speak I Am in Big Trouble Meme
– Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference by Carmine Starnino
– Elon Musk’s Tweet re Anal Chess Cheating
– My delightful former student the violin prodigy, Amy Oh (@lankyhunchback on TikTok)
– Bobby Fischer’s legendary game against Donald Byrne (The Game of the Century)
– Six-Figure Artworks, by a Fifth Grader by Alex Hawgood
– Of Gods and Machines by Stephen Marche
– Jimmy Chin
– The Alpinist
– Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
September 28, 2022 Ep 75: A Good But Stupid Place
NB: The sonneteer whose name I couldn’t remember was Trumbull Stickney. Also, he didn’t live in the mid-twentieth century, he died in 1904. Anyway, he’s great!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Making Meaning by Garth Greenwell
– The Guardian view on Dante
– Robert Lowell at 100
– Jay Wright
– Danez Smith
– The Poetry Magazine/Dickman Dustup
–The The Nation/Carlson-Wee Dustup
– Shane’s interview on Commonplace
– Dizzy by David Yezzi
– Poetry, Disability, and Vigilance by Raymond Antrobus
– The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World by Paul Guest
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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 22 min
September 21, 2022 Ep 74: Nonviolent Femmes
NB: I neglected to cite the line in full: “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!”
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Godsong (The Bhagavad Gita) trans. Amit Majmudar
– Heteropessimism
– In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried by Amy Hempel
– The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
– The Shameful Profession by James Laughlin
– About a Boy by Nick Hornby
– ContraPoints
– Alice’s conversation with Ursula Robinson-Shaw
– Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
– The Black Art by Anne Sexton
– Pastor Coleman!
– Men by John Crowe Ransom
– The Tempest
– Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
– King Lear
– Promises by Robert Penn Warren
– Traveling Through the Dark by William E. Stafford
– Traveling Through the Yard by Rae Armantrout
– Manly Conclusions by Mary Hood
– The Seeker (episode of Poetry Off the Shelf ft. Kim Stafford)
– Motherhood by Sheila Heti
– Commonplace w/ Rachel Zucker
– Adam by Anthony Hecht
– Ubi Sunt Qui Ante Nos Fuerunt
– Commonplace w/ Rachel Zucker
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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 34 min