Ep 50: Tiered Rejection Purgatory

 
 
Sleerickets Ep 50
Matthew Buckley Smith

NB: Attention, Baltimore! Alexis Sears and I will be giving a reading at Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, April 5. Come by to get a sticker and heckle my poetry voice!

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Benching Is the New Ghosting by Jason Chen

– Tiered rejections

– The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

– The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill

– When Prophecy Fails by Festinger, Riecken, and Schachter

– The Millerites

– Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

– Bladerunner

– Negative capability

– Double Consciousness

– Depressive Realism

– Self-Serving Bias

– Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud

– Funes the Memorious by Jorge Luis Borgesfune

– Holy Sonnet XIV

– The Wanderer

– Surprised by joy by William Wordsworth

– The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth

– Purchase by Shane McCrae

– Citizen by Claudia Rankine

– Help Review by Naveen Kumar

– A Poet Wore Three Outfits for Her Surprise Themed Wedding by Liana Satenstein

– It Was a Summer of Heavy But of Course I Had to Betray Her by Rachel Rabbit White

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Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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