Ep 246: A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper, Pt. 1
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NB: Another poem (one of Jonathan’s favorites) about having an orange and not wanting to kill yourself.
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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!
– Why Don’t People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do People Like? by Daniel Cowper
– Kingdom of the Clock by Daniel Cowper
– A Review of The Soft Black Stars by Sunil Iyengar
– On Not Knowing How to Start by Sunil Iyengar
– What He Really Wanted by Zina Gomez-Liss
– If by Rudyard Kipling
– Ep 245: The Tuna Incident, ft. Nida Sophasarun
– Giving the Devil His Due by Elijah Perseus Blumov
– September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
– On the Inner Nature of Art by Arthur Schopenhauer
– On the origin of poetry by Friedrich Nietzsche
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
