Ep 263: 100 kg, ft. Niall Campbell, pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Come see me at the D.C. Arts Center Poetry Series on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 3 p.m. EST. w/ Ned Balbo & Jonathan Fine
– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!
– My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
– Hilary Menos’s review of The Soft Black Stars in The Orange County Review of Books
– Stephen Dunn broadside from Lettre Sauvage
– The Island in the Sound by Niall Campbell
– The Odyssey (2026)
– The Return (2024)
– Emily Wilson’s review of The Odyssey in the LRB
– Emily Wilson’s review of The Odyssey in The Atlantic
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
