SLEERICKETS

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SLEERICKETS episodes

May 25, 2022 Ep 58: Never-Never Land, ft. David Yezzi
NB: Here is the link to the SLEERICKETS Secret Show. Please go and see.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– My Beautiful Never-Nevers: Yoko Ono’s Poetry Revisited by Austin Allen
– More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems by David Yezzi
– Grapefruit by Yoko Ono
– Cut-Piece by Yoko Ono
– Instant Karma by Plastic Ono Band
– Tulipmania by Austin Allen
– Hamlet and His Problems by T. S. Eliot
– King Lear
– King Leir
– Woman Holding a Fox by David Yezzi (kind of hard to read on this website, but I couldn’t find a better one)
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer, @poetry_says
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
51 min
May 18, 2022 Ep 57: Selling Out!
NB: Here is the link to the SLEERICKETS Secret Show. Please go and see.
Also, I mistakenly referred to Chris Hemingsworth as Chris Hemmings. I apologize to both men, but especially to Chris Hemingsworth.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon
– Ada Limon Is the Poet of Our Lonely Terrifying Time by David L. Ulin
– Ada Limon: Every Book Is a New Way of Looking at the World by Nicole Chung
– In her new poems, Ada Limon argues for turning a delicate attention to the world by Jeevika Verma
– To Learn from the Natural World. On Ada Limon’s Brilliant Poetic Project by Sara B. Franklin
– Poem: Joint Custody by Ada Limon, ed. Victoria Cheng
– The End of Poetry by Ada Limon
– John T. Irwin
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer, @poetry_says
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 8 min
May 11, 2022 Ep 56: Whoa-Neat-Fact-Man Poems
NB: The house of Sabrina Orah Mark and Reg McKnight just burned down with their library inside it. Please donate money to help them replace it here.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Brian!
– Check the Doors: On Alexandra Oliver’s Hail the Invisible Watchman by Maryann Corbett
– Bloodwarm by Taylor Byas
– The Violin by Matthew Olzmann
– Eric Smith
– Vievee Francis
– A Little Cloud by James Joyce
– Araby by James Joyce
– The Dead by James Joyce
– Men at Forty by Donald Justice
– To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire by Steve Scafidi
– Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets by James Pogue
– Shane McCrae
– Digging by Seamus Heaney
– This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
– On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author, and Very Dear to Him by Lord Byron
– 90 North by Randall Jarrell
– Big Pussy
– Peter Vertacnik
– Ethan McGuire
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer, @poetry_says
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 12 min
May 04, 2022 Ep 55: How Should We Pay for Poetry?
A cool genius with lots of good ideas.
55 min
April 30, 2022 BONUS: Brian Hates Poetry Month
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Champagne Sharks on Black History Month
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer, @poetry_says
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
11 min
April 28, 2022 Ep 54: NaGriftDocoMo, ft. Alice Allan
NB: Sorry this one’s late, but there’s a lot here, from start to finish.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– @poetry_says
– Alice’s recent interview with an important Australian poetry editor
– Alice’s recent episode on poetic insignificance
– Adrian Matejka takes over Poetry
– Waiting for the Poetry by Ange Mlinko
– Robinson by Weldon Kees
– Edwin Arlington Robinson
– Robinson’s Resignation by Simon Armitage
– The angel in Love & Death
– Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
– Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson
– Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
– Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich
– An Anniversary by Adrienne Rich
– Power by Adrienne Rich
– Living in Sin by Adrienne Rich
– Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
– Ryan Wilson
– Joshua Mehigan
– Austin Allen
– Safer than Ambien by Ange Mlinko
– Bad Vegan–
– Pastor Coleman
– A Puzzlement
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 39 min
April 21, 2022 Ep 53: Beauty & Revenge, ft. Mark McGuinness
N.B. It’s been a trying week, so the notes are pretty minimal for this episode. If we mention something you have trouble finding, just write me and I’ll help you out.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– A Mouthful of Air by Mark McGuinness
– He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved by W. B. Yeats
– Poetry as Enchantment by Dana Gioia
– Charmless and Interesting by Robert Archambeau
– Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 22 min
April 13, 2022 Ep 52: Singsongy Chimey Doggerel, ft. Joshua Mehigan
NB: Alan Shapiro and I will be reading poems, or interviewing each other, or fighting to the death, or something, tomorrow, Thursday, April 14, at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC. Also, apparently the podcast is actually called SLEERICKET. Currently burning and reprinting 8,000 branded beer koozies…
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Accepting the Disaster and The Optimist by Joshua Mehigan
– Root Quarterly
– Schopenhauer
– Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell
– Class by Paul Fussell
– A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering that Hides in Plain Sight by Elisa Gabbert
– Morri Creech
– Shane McCrae
– Ryan Wilson
– Langston Hughes
– Large Bad Picture and Poem by Elizabeth Bishop
– Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
– Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
– Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
– What is Minor Poetry? by T. S. Eliot
– Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
– Poets & Writers
– Pequod
– Sonnets 15, 18, 29, 30, 73, and 116
– Keats’ odes
– Aaron Poochigian
– Hamlet
– King Lear
– David Yezzi’s performance of King Lear
– little joe gould by E. E. Cummings
–Michael Slip (sp?)
– Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 8 min
April 07, 2022 Ep 51: On Being Asked to Write a Yoga Poem, ft. Alice Allan
NB: At one point in this episode I say that the infamous essay The Briar Patch opposed the racial integration of schools. It actually opposed several different forms of integration.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Alice’s conversation with Cassandra Atherton
– Amit Majmudar
– George David Clark
– Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age by Dorothy Wickenden
– I’ll Take My Stand
– Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux
– Antiblurb by A. E. Stallings
– A Brief for the Defense by Jack Gilbert
– We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky
– Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
– 32 Poems
– A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight by Elisa Gabbert
– Carl Dennis
– Horace
– On Being Asked for a War Poem by W. B. Yeats
– Easter, 1916 by W. B. Yeats
– Among School Children by W. B. Yeats
– Kathleen’s William Goldman story (I make a dumb joke in this episode about the Make-A-Wish Foundation. As it happens, former guest Kathleen Jones was once a Make-A-Wish kid, and her wish was to meet William Goldman, a meeting that led to a rich and decades-long relationship.)
– The London Review of Books podcast
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
1 hr 4 min
April 04, 2022 BONUS: Everything in Me Wants to Disagree
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart by Jennifer Senior
Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer
Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
57 min