Ep 230: The Christian Poetry Shell Game
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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
– The Christian Poetry Comeback by Paul J. Pastor
– Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia
– Poetry as Enchantment by Dana Gioia
– The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Narrative Verse by Sunil Iyengar
– Bill Hicks
– Air Force Academy cancels lecture after discovering speaker disparaged Trump by Mary Shinn
– CC hosts speaker whose appearance at USAFA was canceled by Ashley Eberhardt
– Intimacy by Paisley Rekdal
– To Crawl Under the Earth: The Persistence of Expansive Poetry by Brian Brodeur
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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
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