Ep 221: ALSCW 2025
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
– The new issue of the Birmingham Poetry Review (the review of Midlife is in there, it’s just annoyingly not listed online)
– Euphoric Recall at In Future Posts by Alice Allan
– Li Po Meets Oulipo by Michael Leong
– How to Think like a Poet by Ryan Wilson
– Poetry Says: Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas Part 1 & Part 2
– The AWP
– The MLA
– Ruby LaRocca (the college student, not the slasher actress)
– Clip from the 2012 production of Twelfth Night at the Globe, courtesy of Amanda
– Gerhard Richter’s 2007 stained glass window for Cologne Cathedral
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
