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SLEERICKETS episodes

July 27, 2022 Ep 66: Emotional Slapstick
In which I fail to identify the rhyme scheme of a straightforwardly constructed sonnet.
1 hr 36 min
July 20, 2022 Ep 65: In the limelight cuz I rhyme tight
NB: Oops, I said “Shelley’s Apology for Poetry” when I meant to say “Sidney’s…” Sorry about that. Also, the clicking sounds you might notice come from the amazing machine Cameron uses to read, which is both a marvel of engineering in itself and requires extraordinary manual and verbal skill to operate.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Rules of Rhyme by Adam Gopnik
– What’s Good by Daniel Levin Becker
– Cain Named the Animal by Shane McCrae
– The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat
– Illmatic by Nas
– Juicy by The Notorious B.I.G.
– Big Poppa by The Notorious B.I.G.
– None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock
– Gopher Guts by Aesop Rock
– Public Service Announcement by Jay-Z
– Alright by Kendrick Lamar
– How to Think Like a Poet by Ryan Wilson
– Don Juan by Lord Byron
– Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope
– Presto Manifesto! by A. E. Stallings
– Abel as Cain by Camille Ralphs
– Empty by Juice WRLD
– Bojack Horseman
– Gerard Manley Hopkins
– Anne-Marie Thompson
– Ian Brandon
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Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 31 min
July 13, 2022 Ep 64: The Rabbit Hole, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Theology by Paul Laurence Dunbar
– Nothing in Heaven Functions as It Ought by X. J. Kennedy
– Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
– Science, Prayer, and the Density of Being by James Matthew Wilson
– Nihilism for the Ironhearted by Algis Valiunas
– Ryan’s Letter to the Editor and Valiunas’ Letter to the Letter to the Editor
– Dan Kois’ disdain for stay-at-home parents
– Ricky Gervais: SuperNature
– Chapo Trap House
– The Boston Comment essays by Joan Houlihan
– James Matthew Wilson’s essays in The Contemporary Poetry Review
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Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 8 min
July 06, 2022 Ep 63: Sex World vs. Money World, ft. Andrew Palmer
NB: Oops, I forgot to mention that Keep the Aspidistra Flying was recommended by Joshua Mehigan on a previous episode!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Bachelor by Andrew Palmer
– Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
– The Dream Songs by John Berryman
– Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson
– A Merry War
– 1 Corinthians 13
– Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
– The White Card by Claudia Rankine
– Red by John Logan
– When I Watch the Living Meet by A. E. Housman
– The Writer’s Almanac
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Sister Podcast (Alice): Poetry Says
Eratosphere (Cameron): W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 17 min
June 29, 2022 Ep 62: The Pervy Irishman Blues
NB: Yeah, yeah, I know, Dostoevsky didn’t go to “the Gulag,” he went to a prison camp in Siberia.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Dogdom of the Dead by A. E. Stallings
– L. Receives Honorable Mention in Late Middle Age by Jason Sommer
– The Guttural Muse by Seamus Heaney
– The Rat by Don Paterson
– Antaeus by Seamus Heaney
– Persephone Writes a Letter to Her Mother by A. E. Stallings
– The Dead by James Joyce
– To My Comrade, Moses J. Jackson, Scoffer at This Scholarship by A. E. Housman, trans. A. E. Stallings
– Alan Shapiro
– Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
– Why I Am Not a Painter by Frank O’Hara
– When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton
– E. A. Robinson
– Arthur Rimbaud
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
– Everette Maddox
– Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney
– Digging by Seamus Heaney
– My Tea Ceremony by Henri Cole
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Sister Podcast: Poetry Says
Eratosphere: W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
52 min
June 27, 2022 BONUS: A History of Everything, Including Y’all
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Beowulf
– This Kill Bill Scene Has Me Thinking About Weave and Girl Fights by Taylor Byas
– Bloodwarm by Taylor Byas
– Hail, the Invisible Watchman by Alexandra Oliver
– The Bride vs. O-Ren Ishii
– A History of Everything, Including You by Jenny Hollowell
– Radiolab
– Friend of the podcast Soren Wheeler
– Incarnations of Burned Children by David Foster Wallace
– The Entire History of You
– Synecdoche, NY
– The National Anthem (the pig-fucking one)
– Something by the Beatles
– Something in the Way She Moves by James Taylor
– Fire and Rain by James Taylor
– Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
– The opening scene of Up
– Tree of Life
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Sister Podcast: Poetry Says
Eratosphere: W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 5 min
June 22, 2022 Ep 61: The One with Brad Listi
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Be Brief and Tell Them Everything by Brad Listi
– Otherppl with Brad Listi
– Lightness by Italo Calvino
– Shel Silverstein
– Bob Marley
– Franz Wright
– Chapo Trap House
– Grill Stream by Matt Christman
– Giotto
– Philip Roth
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Sister Podcast: Poetry Says
Eratosphere: W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 7 min
June 13, 2022 BONUS: The Presbyterian Goodnight
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Bad Vegan
– The Perpetual Pup Ad
– Grasshopper by Alan Shapiro
– Hamilton
– Hamlet
– The Tinder Swindler
– NXIVM
– FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
– Martha Marcy May Marlene
– Sarma Melngailis’ blog
– The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
– Washington Square by Henry James
– Selling Sunset
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Sister Podcast: Poetry Says
Eratosphere: W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
45 min
June 08, 2022 Ep 60: Too Many Manifestos
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Joshua Mehigan’s sold-out Free Verse Class
– Christian Wiman
– Poetry Says
– The Final Manifesto by Joshua Mehigan
– Manifesto of the Flying Mallet by Michael Hofman
– Manifest Aversions, Conceptual Conundrums, & Implausibly Deniable Links by Charles Bernstein
– The Eighties, Glory of by Ange Mlinko
– Annie Get Your Gun by D. A. Powell
– The New Perform-a-Form: A Page Vs. Stage Alliance by Thomas Sayers Ellis
– Presto Manifesto! by A. E. Stallings
– Leave the Manifesto Alone: A Manifesto by Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr on behalf of Hate Socialist Collective ()
– The Futurist Manifesto by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
– Personism by Frank O’Hara
– Glory of the 80s by Tori Amos
– Mending Wall by Robert Frost
– The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost
– Home Burial by Robert Frost
– Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
– The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
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Eratosphere: W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 31 min
June 01, 2022 Ep 59: The Martinez Debarkle, ft. Cameron Clark
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Terror and Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– from “Titan/All Is Well” by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Black Sun: An Interview with Toby Martinez de las Rivas by Lucy Mercer
– On the Pale Sun of Toby Martinez de las Rivas by Dave Coates
– The Black Sun Notebooks: 1. Owning the Post-Libs by Giacbelolli
– Fishing for Fascists: A Letter to Dave Coates by Chris Edgoose
– A Response by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Poetry and Fascism: Dave Coats v. Toby Martinez de las Rivas by Rob A. Mackenzie
– Eleven Addresses to the Lord by John Berryman
– 90 North Randall Jarrell
– in that the Soul standeth: Randall Jarrell’s 90 North and John Berryman’s A Prayer for the Self by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer, @poetry_says
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Eratosphere: W T Clark
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
56 min