Ep 242: Not the Greatest Time to Be a Poet, ft. Horace & Friends, Pt. 1
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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’ll be doing the Rattlecast this Monday, April 13, at 8:00 p.m. US Eastern! Check it out!
– Kronos by Joshua Mehigan
– Does it help to be religious? by Victoria Moul
– Horace & Friends by Victoria Moul
– Poems Beautiful and Useful, ed. Victoria Moul
– Poetry, Poetics, Poesia by Tamarah Rockwood
– The Rattlecast went well, I think!
– Church Going by Philip Larkin
– The Poet’s Vision by Ryan Wilson
– As I Prefer Them Well Cooked Through (from the French of Valérie Rouzeau) trans. Victoria Moul
– A Deer Comes to Mind by Simon Armitage
– The Birth of the Sonnet (from the French of Nicolas Boileau) trans. Elijah Perseus Blumov
– My chapbook’s hatred-filled Goodreads page
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
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
