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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Come see a slew of poets, including me, at Suite in Morningside Heights in NYC on Sunday May 19 at 3:00 p.m. and join afterward for food/drinks!

– A. E. Stallings’ Oxford Professor of Poetry lecture that definitely wasn’t inspired by this episode

– The Northman Takes History, Spirituality, and Young Men Seriously by Ethan McGuire

– What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel

– The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell

– Snark & Blurb: A Dialogue by A. E. Stallings

– The Art of the Blurb by Jason Guriel

– Frank the Bunny Man

– Jacob and Esau

– All I Do Is Win by DJ Khaled

– Larry King asks DJ Khaled a thoughtful question

– Who Gets to Write What? by Kaitlyn Greenidge

– Lionel Shriver’s sombrero speech

– The Bohr model of the atom

– Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O’Neill

Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer, @poetry_says

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Amit Majmudar

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

– Ernie Hilbert

– Joanna Pearson

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith