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September 14, 2022 Ep 73: Let’s Get Difficult, Pt. 2
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill
– The Art of Poetry No. 80, with Geoffrey Hill and Carl Philips
– Alvin Feinman
– Defining Difficulty in Poetry by Reginald Shepherd
– Why Poems Don’t Make Sense by Your Humble Servant
– Obscurity in Poetry — A Spectrum by Geoff Page
– The Poet Tasters by Ben Etherington (containing the paragraph redacted from Page’s essay)
– My Life by Lyn Hejinian
– Gertrude Stein
– The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
– Alice’s episode on Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer
– Michael Farrell
– George David Clark
– Emilia Philips
– Rebecca Watts on Hollie McNish
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 2 min
September 07, 2022 Ep 72: Let’s Get Difficult, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Love on the Spectrum
– Some Trees by John Ashbery
– The History of My Life by John Ashbery
– The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill
– The Art of Poetry No. 80, with Geoffrey Hill and Carl Philips
– Alvin Feinman
– Eric Smith
– Joshua Mehigan’s class on free verse
– The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
– Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
– Defining Difficulty in Poetry by Reginald Shepherd
– Why Poems Don’t Make Sense by Your Humble Servant
– Derek Jacobi
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 4 min
August 31, 2022 Ep 71: How to Get Banned from Poetry Free-for-All
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Preambles I by Alvin Feinman
– A Spell to Banish Grief by Saeed Jones
– Worldful by Shane McCrae
– Mercian Hymns VII by Geoffrey Hill
– Titan/All Is Still by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings
– As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden
– Eurydice on the Art of Poetry by Shane McCrae
– Pisgah by Geoffrey Hill
– Poetry Free-for-All
– What Is Minor Poetry? by T. S. Eliot
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 25 min
August 24, 2022 Ep 70: Tomato Fight
NB: This episode was suggested by Jeremy. Thanks, Jeremy!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Don’t Look Up
– The Deracination of Literature by Mary Gaitskill
– The Whistle by Eudora Welty
– Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
– Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor
– Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
– Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
– Secretary
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 27 min
August 17, 2022 Ep 69: One F***ing Poem
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Preambles I by Alvin Feinman
– Donnie Darko
– The Sacré-Coeur by Pablo Picasso
– Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 7 min
August 17, 2022 Ep 68: Something Stinkier
NB: Left my stupid computer in NC, so this is a real last-minute, bare-bones kind of operation.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Meridian Response by Ben Lerner
– With Dear Poetry Podcast… by Miles Parks
– The Silly Revolutionary… by Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman
– For Him the Poetic Was Political by Reeta Chakrabarti
– At the Met Protest and Poetry About Water by Holland Carter
– Ozymandias by Percy Byshe Shelley
– To Crawl Under the Earth by Brian Brodeur
– Ep 23: Rhymes Without Beats ft. James Nguyen
– Ep 32: Poets Without Poems ft. Sam Riviere
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
38 min
August 17, 2022 Ep 67: The Hastily Assembled Podcast*
*With apologies to Shane.
NB: Out of town so no real show notes this week. Sorry!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Poetry Says Ep. 186: Sensitive New Right Guy
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 2 min
August 17, 2022 Ep 66: Emotional Slapstick
NB: Fucked up the original listing of this episode so it disappeared for a while.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– A bunch of stuff
Twitter: @BPlatzer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 36 min
August 10, 2022 Ep 68: Something Stinkier
No laptop, no GarageBand, no music, no prep. Here's the show!
38 min
August 03, 2022 Ep 67: The Hastily Assembled Podcast*
I am once again an idiot.
1 hr 2 min