Ep 222: Poetry Voice Classic, ft. Jonathan Farmer
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
Louise Gluck
Louise Gluck's Nobel lecture
Lionel Shriver
Ep 207: Wild Ernestness on Ernest Hemingway
Against Remembrance: On Louise Gluck by Eliza Gonzalez
Education of the Poet by Louise Gluck
Poetry Says Ep. 294 The American Ecstatic
Ep 166: Three Bird Mafia on the Order of the Third Bird
The Uneasy Friendship of Poets by Matthew Buckley Smith
Robert Macfarlane's blurb for Jorie Graham
Secret show notes
Song in the Grass by Kate Fagan
praise song by Nate Marshall
Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander
The Defense of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney
Ripostes by Michael Robbins
The Optimist by Joshua Mehigan
Ep 14: M*****f****r of the Arts on what an MFA in poetry gets you
Ep 48: Crying Emoji, Fire Emoji, ft. Amit Majmudar
The New American Poetry 1945-1960 edited by Donald Allen
New Ohio Review's cover artwork
The Cows on Killing Day by Les Murray
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
