Ep 218: Fair Play
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
– Rattle
– Ion
– To my artist friends by Alice Allan
– The To My Artist Friends Versecraft Episode, Part 1 & Part 2
– A Sunset of the City by Gwendolyn Brooks
– Next Day by Randall Jarrell
– My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
– Ep 81: The Eliza Effect, ft. Carmine Starnino
– Crush by Richard Siken
– The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe
– The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Frequently mentioned names:
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus 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