Ep 253: A Little-Known, Much-Hated Poet
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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!
– Pumpkin Chucking by Stephen Scaer
– The Sidewalk Steve page on the Transgender Map
– Say Nothing but Good by Stephen Scaer
– Gold Is the Last to Leave by Stephen Scaer
– Backyard Triumph by Stephen Scaer
– Mentor by Stephen Scaer
– Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
– 4trans by Naomi Kanakia
– My weird omnibus: I Reviewed 99 Recent Poetry Collections—Here’s What I Found
– No by A. M. Juster
– Stephen Scaer’s comment on Maine LD 1735
– Make Believe by Stephen Scaer
– Johnson and Nietzsche on Criticism and Critics by Ethan McGuire
– Ozark Elegy by Ethan McGuire
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
