Ep 114: The Manliness of Men, ft. Derek Mong, Pt. 1

 
 
Sleerickets Ep 114
Matthew Buckley Smith

NB: Here is the poem I thought of when I dumbly confused blasons with ballades.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Anne O. Fisher’s husband, Derek Mong!

– Derek’s book The Identity Thief

– Derek’s essay-review on Whitman, Bly, & Kempf

– Derek’s essay/op-ed about teaching Emily Dickinson to men

– Chris Kempf’s poem about playing Call of Duty

– Midnight Arrythmia by Derek Mong

– To Assemble This Poem Properly by Derek Mong

– At Length Magazine

– Jonathan Farmer

– Valerie Solanas

– Sonnet 130

– Men by John Crowe Ransom

– Alice’s great AMA episode, w/ roast of SLRKTS

– David Baker

– What I Lost When I Stopped Crying by Benjamin Perry

– Beowulf

– The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

– Coleman Glenn

– Anthony Hecht

– Horace

– Ethan McGuire

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

Frequent topics:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Austin Allen

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