Ep 247: Listener Crit #11
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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!
– The Frost Farm Prize results
– Why Don’t People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do People Like? by Daniel Cowper
– Ep 246: The Case for Didactic Poetry Part 1 & Part 2
– L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas by John Milton
– Odysseus’ Last Return to Ithaca by Pedro Poitevin
– XXIV by Philip Larkin
– Dune by Frank Herbert
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
