I'm coming out of my Shel, and I've been doing just fine. This week we talk about Shel Silverstein's total mix bag of a biography, assorted poems, and most famous children's book, The Giving Tree.

We welcome special guest Bex Goos as we all chat about The Goblin Market, which is (definitely) a poem about fruit by our homegirl Christina Rossetti. Content warning for sexual assault and, separately, incest.

It's a special episode featuring original poems from Reddit's writer community! Special thanks to Muneeb Ali, low-tie, and Liz Ringo for letting us read their poems on air, and also to r/OCPoetry for bringing together talented people from the many corners of the internet.

It finally happened! We talked about The Wars by Timothy Findley! We chat about this rad Canadian author, pacifism, homosocialism, and when to forgive someone for not giving back your book. Content warnings: war, violence, death (including both human and animal death), suicide, rape.

We're taking a trip back in time to the superior '20s: the roaring ones! This week we chat about Mrs. Dalloway, including: modernism, bland characters, and going back to our queer reading roots. Content warning for suicide.

Happy New Year! We're ringing in 2022 with a New Year's poem, your unpopular book opinions, and highbrow literature*! (*listicles)

It's our second holiday episode! We're talking about Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, with its festive theme of the birth of the Antichrist. (It's a Christmas thing. No need to fact check it.)

We're talking about Swift! No, English majors, not that one. This week we analyze Taylor Swift's All Too Well as the high art poem it is.

We chat about Octavia E. Butler's Kindred, including: when people think time travel is the most logical explanation, racism, and how to pronounce diaspora. Content warnings for slavery, rape, self-harm, violence, and suicide.

We talk about The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, Eurocentrism, and the link between slavery and the treatment of Indigenous communities. On a lighter note, we find it's impossible to say "no" in an Australian accent. Content warning for talk about slavery, abuse, child death, rape, and residential schools.