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
Night by Ellie Wiesel
Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia
After Apple-Picking and Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Egg and Dart by Matthew Buckley Smith
Deceptacon by Le Tigre
The Queen’s Gambit (2020)
My Best Game Ever: Vishy Anand vs. Judit Polgar
Judit Polgar tricks Magnus Carlsen in a game of blitz in the park
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
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Supernatural Horror and Literature by H.P. Lovecraft
Secret show notes
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
A Holy Dread by R. A. Villanueva
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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
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