Ep 211: Literary Matters 18.1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Submit to LM (but ignore the submissions guidelines)
– Submit Halloween-themed poems to New Verse Review
– Come hear me read at the Frost Farm this Thursday, September 11, at 6:30!
– My recent appearance on Matt Wall’s Bukowski Pod
– To the Reader by Charles Baudelaire, trans. Tristram Fane Saunders
– Concerning The Wreck by T. O. Brandon
– Women’s Work by Maya Venters
– Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
– Chubby Checker by M. I. Devine
– The Bad Apple Sings by Hailey Leithauser
– Senryu at Zion National Park by Pedro Poitevin
– The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins
– Concerning Kipling by George Bradley
– Nightjar by James Midgley
– Yangtze Gorge by Nida Sophasarun
– A thing I wrote on another poem of Nida’s for 32 Poems
– 90 North by Randall Jarrell
– Narcissus by R. Nemo Hill
– The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
– Assurances by Sunil Iyengar
– Spoor by Forester McClatchey
– The End of the Age of Singing by Niall Campbell
Frequently mentioned names:
– Steve Knepper
– Helena Feder
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
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
