Ep 238: AWP 2026

 

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Ep 238
Matthew Buckley Smith

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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

– Rosanna Oh

– Sonnet 130

– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

– Poetry by Joseph Harrison

– Moira Egan

– Joe Osterhaus

– Robert Schreur

– Sunil Iyengar

– The Same City by Terrance Hayes

– Maps by James Baker Hall

– Michael Theune

– Kim Noriega

– Kim Addonizio

– Poetry Says Ep 294. The American Ecstatic

– Dan Kois

– The Martin Chronicles

– Lauren Wethers

– Reclaiming Jane

– Jordan Kisner

– Thresholds

– The Critic and Her Publics

– Michele Moses

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

– George David Clark

– Tristram Fane Saunders

– Philip Metres

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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