Ep 231: Insidious Tendencies, ft. Steven Searcy
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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
– A Crown for the Kings by Zina Gomez-Liss
– The things you’ve said and done: Jeremy Wikeley’s review of Midlife
– Limiting Poetry’s Feedback Loop by Steven Searcy
– Below the Brightness by Steven Searcy
– On Fear by Alice Allan
– The Christian Poetry Comeback by Paul J. Pastor
– Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia
– Poetry as Enchantment by Dana Gioia
– When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton
– On first looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats
– Decorum by Stephen Dunn
– Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
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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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