Ep 228: Bad Poet Fight
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
– Let me know if you’d like a review copy of my forthcoming chapbook The Soft Black Stars: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
– Silliman’s Blog: Friday, September 20, 2002
– Precise Instability: Introducing Joseph Massey by Rae Armantrout
– The Poet Joseph Massey Is an Abuser
– Poet Massey Withdraws Book from Wesleyan UP After Allegations Surface by Emmet Teran, Hannah Reale, and Molly Schiff
– The Poet Joseph Massey’s Disturbing History of Abuse by Rebekah Kirkman
– A MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet. This Is How I Survived by Joseph Massey
– Joseph Massey, the Unofficial Poet Laureate of Trump’s America by Peter Savodnik
– Jina Huh’s Kate Schapira Thread
– Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander
– One Today by Richard Blanco
– America Is the Poem by Joseph Massey
– There’s so much else. So much more stuff. Good Lord.
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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
