Ep 249: We Hogs Need This, 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!
Can Art Teach? by David S. Wallace
A Few Words On Improving Your Life Through the Great Books by Ethan McGuire
Secret show notes
Ep 246: A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper
Why Don't People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do They Like? by Daniel Cowper
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Giovanni’s Room and Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
