SLEERICKETS

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal

Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

NB: Attention, Baltimore! Alexis Sears and I will be giving a reading at Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, April 5. Come by to get a sticker and heckle my poetry voice!

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Benching Is the New Ghosting by Jason Chen

– Tiered rejections

– The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

– The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill

– When Prophecy Fails by Festinger, Riecken, and Schachter

– The Millerites

– Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

– Bladerunner

– Negative capability

– Double Consciousness

– Depressive Realism

– Self-Serving Bias

– Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud

– Funes the Memorious by Jorge Luis Borgesfune

– Holy Sonnet XIV

– The Wanderer

– Surprised by joy by William Wordsworth

– The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth

– Purchase by Shane McCrae

– Citizen by Claudia Rankine

– Help Review by Naveen Kumar

– A Poet Wore Three Outfits for Her Surprise Themed Wedding by Liana Satenstein

– It Was a Summer of Heavy But of Course I Had to Betray Her by Rachel Rabbit White

Twitter: @sleerickets

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The Daily Poem and Close Reads

– Goldberry Books

– 30 Poems to Memorize Before It’s Too Late ed. David Kern

– Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley

– Wild Mountain Thyme

– Doubt

– Welcome to the Moon

– Belfast

– Coda

– Henry V (the Olivier version)

– Hamlet (the Mel Gibson version)

– Fifty Shades of Grey

– The Fall

– Mary Poppins

– Edge of Tomorrow

– Melancholia

– Breaking the Waves

– Ides of March

– The Master

– Phantom Thread

– The Underground Railroad

– Shonda Rhimes

– Punch-Drunk Love

– Sonnet 30

– Holy Sonnets X and XIV

Twitter: @sleerickets

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Marriage Requires Amnesia by Heather Havrilesky

Twitter: @sleerickets

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The Great Game by Amit Majmudar

– What He Did in Solitary by Amit Majmudar

– The LARB

– My Hollywood by Boris Dralyuk

– Hard-Line Politics by Austin Allen

– A Lens that Doesn’t Veil the View: Amit Majmudar in Conversation with Caitlin Doyle

– The Sonnets

– James Dickey, Greg Williamson, John Hollander

– Lipograms

– Oulipo

– L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry

– The Michael Derrick Hudson scandal

– How Do You Say That, Where Is That From? by Amit Majmudar

– Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

– Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling

– Don Juan by Lord Byron

– On formal restlessness by Amit Majmudar

– Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny

– The Gita According to Marcus Aurelius by Amit Majmudar

– Invocation by Amit Majmudar

Twitter: @sleerickets

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Milton with Galileo, 1638 by Cameron Clark

– Carol Ann Duffy: Poems are a form of texting by Joanna Moorhead

– Poetry, Policing and Public Order (1) by Geoffrey Hill

– Mark Duggan

– Carol Ann Duffy and Geoffrey Hill: truly poetic heavyweights by Lemn Sissay

– Geoffrey Hill: On Reading Crowds and Power by Ange Mlinko

– The Onion

– Received Pronunciation (RP)

– The Old Fools by Philip Larkin

– General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE)

– Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy

– Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes by Thomas Gray

– The Great Game by Amit Majmudar

– Shorthand

– Grade 1 Braille & Grade 2 Braille

– BrailleNote

– Vowels by Arthur Rimbaud

– Correspondences by Charles Baudelaire

– The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy

– David Cameron’s football gaffe

– Eratosphere

– Commercial Poetry

– M. A. Griffiths

– The Movement

– L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry

– Ishion Hutchinson

Twitter: @sleerickets

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

NB: Minor recording snafu, so here’s a bonus ep to tide you over. Proper episode coming soon.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Now You Know It All by Joanna Pearson

– Adrienne Pearson, AuD

– Cool Musician Jeff

– The Tinder Swindler

– Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen

Twitter: @sleerickets

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

NB: Oops, the Tay Bridge collapsed in 1879, not 1979.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Alice’s podcast Poetry Says

– Terrance Hayes’ last three poems in the New Yorker

– Kevin Young & Paul Muldoon & Alice Quinn

– The Tay Bridge Disaster by William McGonagall

– Without a Worry in the World by Rod McKuen

– Eight Things I Hate About Me by Mark Leidner

– Ern Malley

– Opus 15 by Emmanuel Morgan

– Ocean Vuong

– Robert Hass

– Dubious rival podcast Commonplace

– Ryan Wilson

– E. E. Cummings

– Edgar Allan Poe

– Rupi Kaur

– The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Paterson

– Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

– Invictus by William Ernest Henley

– If— by Rudyard Kipling

– A Night Without Armor by Jewel

– Blinking With Fists by Billy Corgan

– Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass by Lana Del Rey

– What Is Minor Poetry? by T. S. Eliot

– Alice’s conversation with Jennifer Compton

Twitter: @sleerickets

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Out of Order by Alexis Sears

– Field Knowledge by Morri Creech

– Big-Eyed Afraid by Erica Dawson

– My cool wife is going to AWP

– Johns Hopkins people: Greg Williamson, Richie Hofmann, David Yezzi, Mary Jo Salter, Andrew Motion, James Arthur

– Introduction to Fiction and Poetry

– André 3000’s verse on the new Kanye West record

– Louder than a Bomb (the poetry festival)

– Louder than a Bomb (the documentary)

– The slam poetry scene from 22 Jump Street

– Peter Kahn’s intro to the Respect the Mic excerpts in Poetry Magazine

– Louder than a Bomb student poets: Nate Marshall, Adam Gottlieb, Lamar Jorden, Nova Venerable

– Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall

– The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

– Other bad inaugural poems by Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco

– Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

– The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht

– My conversation about Christians etc. with Kathleen Jones

– Elizabeth Bishop on how embarrassing it is to be a poet

– The Seafarer

– He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) by the Crystals

– The Lost Daughter

– Don’t Look Up

– Eratosphere

– Quincy Lehr

– Kim Bridgford

– The West Chester Poetry Conference

– Poetry by the Sea

– Alexis and I are giving a reading together in April at Johns Hopkins

– Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning

– Golden Years by Alexis Sears

Twitter: @sleerickets

Email: [email protected]

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

NB: I don’t usually do show notes for bonus episodes, but there were a few references in this one that felt kind of crucial, so I’m including them here.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– @BPlatzer on Twitter

– Ashton-Drake So Truly Real monkey dolls

– We Don’t Talk About Bruno

– The horrifying video my daughters lovingly refer to as “Crazy Hospital”

– What Elmo’s Viral Moment Tells Us about How Parents Watch Kids’ TV by Phillip Maciak

– Paw Patrol Is Contemptible Trash by Brian Platzer

– Champagne Sharks’ devastating takedown of Hamilton

– Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

Twitter: @sleerickets

Email: [email protected]

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith