Ep 213: Listener Crit #5
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Morri Creech won the Rattle Poetry Prize!
– Is it unethical for lit mags to conceal what portion of work is solicited? by Becky Tuch
– Tar River Poetry Reading Sunday, September 19, 2025
– A Heroic Death by Charles Baudelaire
– The first matador got the horn by Ernest Hemingway
– Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats
– Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats
– Dizzy by David Yezzi
– The Good News by David Yezzi
– The Chain by David Yezzi
– These Are the Poems, Folks by David Yezzi
– On the Marionette Theatre by Heinrich von Kleist
– Woman Waits, Seething, Blooming by Dave Eggers
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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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Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
