Ep 206: Feels Good While It’s Happening, ft. Matt Wall
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Donate to Matt’s Seasons of the Muse Indiegogo fundraiser!
– When I Was a Poet by David Meltzer
– The San Francisco Renaissance
– Andrea Long Chu’s review of Ocean Vuong
– Tom Crewe’s review of Ocean Vuong
– So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
– The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
– Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
– The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
– The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
– Black Square by Kazimir Malevich
– On the Beach by Nevil Schutes
– Every Day Is Like Sunday by Morrissey
– New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
– I Am 25 by Gregory Corso
– The Portrait Gallery Called Existence by Neeli Cherkovski
– Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
– Seventh Circle of Earth by Ocean Vuong
– An Epistle Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben by Ben Jonson
– Without by Donald Hall
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Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
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