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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae

– Cain Named the Animal by Shane McCrae

– Stalker and Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky

– Patti Smith

– Wilfred Owen

– That time Elijah and I tried to scan a line

– Timothy Steele

– The Dream Songs by John Berryman

– The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

– My most recent conversation with Alexis Sears

– Wallace Stevens

– The mini-issue of West Branch that Shane edited

– Richard Howard

– Ernest Hilbert

– Liturgy

– Eternal Champion

– Metallica

– Of the Scythians by Katha Pollitt

– Beowulf

– That time Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the Temple

– The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

– Coleman Glenn

– Anthony Hecht

– Juvenal

– Horace

– James Merrill

– Alexander Pope

– John Dryden

– John Donne

– Ethan McGuire

– The Madness of Hercules by Seneca, trans. Dana Gioia

– Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

– High Windows by Philip Larkin

– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan

– Grendel by John Gardner

– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath

– That time Abraham smashed a bunch of icons

– That time the Taliban blew up a UNESCO World Heritage Site

– Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae

– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae

– The SLRCKTS ep about the Toby Martinez de las Rivas controversy

– From Titan/All Is Still by Toby Martinez de las Rivas

– Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas

– Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas

– Cornel West

– Christian Wiman

– Jay Wright

– Elizabeth Jennings

– Simone Weil

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