Ep 237: If it doesn’t taste good, you can’t serve it

 

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!

My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!

– Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
Queen of Chess (2026)

Poetry Says Ep 296. Gena Rowlands Poetics

Adam Curtis

Night by Ellie Wiesel

Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia

Marie Kondo

After Apple-Picking and Mending Wall by Robert Frost

Malcolm Gladwell

Tim Ferriss

Julie Steiner

Egg and Dart by Matthew Buckley Smith

Deceptacon by Le Tigre

The touch move rule

The Queen’s Gambit (2020)

Judit’s TED talk

My Best Game Ever: Vishy Anand vs. Judit Polgar

Judit Polgar tricks Magnus Carlsen in a game of blitz in the park

Nigel Short vs. Judit Polgar

Two Catholic sonnets by Julie Steiner

On Noticing How Many Pro-Life Men Are Smokers by Julie Steiner

Julie’s Sapphics thread on Eratosphere

Secret Show notes

The Sparrow by Mary Roia Russell

Dana Gioia

Weldon Kees

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Supernatural Horror and Literature by H.P. Lovecraft

Secret show notes

Meanjin lives!

Tropical Skiing by John Forbes

Limiting Poetry’s Feedback Loop by Steven Searcy

Ep 231: Insidious Tendencies, ft. Steven Searcy

A Caveat-Filled Case for Atheism

The Via Negativa of R.S. Thomas on Versecraft

Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files Issue #265

The Siberian unicorn

A Holy Dread by R. A. Villanueva

Bill Hicks: Pro Life


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

Chris Childers

Alexis Sears

JP Gritton

Alex Pepple

Ernie Hilbert

Joanna Pearson

– Matt Wall

– Steve Knepper

Helena Feder

– David Yezzi

– Victoria Moul

– Katie Dozier & Tim Green

Tristram Fane Saunders

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed

Alice: In Future Posts

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: Minor Tiresias

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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