Ep 232: Mr Bones, ft. Shane McCrae
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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
– Only Sing by John Berryman, ed. Shane McCrae
– New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
– Dream Song 26 by John Berryman
– Dream Song 14 by John Berryman
– Dream Song 29 by John Berryman
– Dream Song: For Louis MacNeice by John Berryman
– A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck by Greg Williamson
– Cynara by Ernest Dowson
– Fallout
– Robert Frost’s original inaugural poem, Dedication
– Democracy and Poetry by Robert Penn Warren
– Fall of the Star High School Running Back by The Mountain Goats
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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
