Ep 223: Dowsing Rods & Decoder Rings
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
– Ep 222: Poetry Voice Classic, ft. Jonathan Farmer & Ep 172: Five Blade Mode, ft. Jonathan Farmer
– Graves by Hayden Carruth
– How to Read the Odyssey by Ryan Wilson
– The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fitzgerald
– The Aeneid, trans. Robert Fitzgerald
– Failed Essay on Privilege by Elisa Gonzalez
– Next Day by Randall Jarrell
– A Sunset of the City by Gwendolyn Brooks
– Secret Show Ep 168: A Real Chill
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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
