Ep 219: Listener Crit #7
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
Resume by Dorothy Parker
The Subalterns by Thomas Hardy
Fragment 16 by Sappho
Insomnia by Elizabeth Bishop
A Letter by Anthony Hecht
A Letter by Donald Justice
Irresponsible Tune by Dirty Projectors
The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
Aubade by Bill Coyle
Jelly Roll: a blues by Kevin Young
Elegy by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The House on the Hill by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field by Richard Hugo
The Great British Bake Off
Secret show notes
Rhymes Rooms by Brad Leithauser
Freddie deBoer
Funny Games (1997)
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
