Ep 238: AWP 2026
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
– Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!
– My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
– I’m reading this Saturday, March 14, at 6:00 p.m. at the Mettlesome Theater in Durham, NC
– Brian’s appearance on The Gist
– The Mysterious Case of Gothic Verse Narratives by Brian Brodeur
– Pre-order Sixteen Games of Hide and Seek by Stephen Bass and Steve Teare!
– Sofia Kavlin Castaneda of Unsent Letterbox
– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
– Poetry by Joseph Harrison
– The Same City by Terrance Hayes
– Maps by James Baker Hall
– Poetry Says Ep 294. The American Ecstatic
– Dan Kois
Frequently mentioned names:
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
