Ep 264: Potatoes, Small and Smaller
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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
– I’m going to see The Score Saturday the 26th, in case you want to see it too!
– 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
– Tar River Poetry is open for submissions!
– Literary Matters is also open for submissions!
– The Byron Bay Option: On (Not) Giving Up Poetry by Alice Allan
– New Verse Review’s Summer Sampler #2
– Boris Dralyuk’s note on Zina’s poem
– So This Is Love by Zina Gomez-Liss
– Thomas Jardine’s review of So This is Love
– Zina’s response to Jardine’s review
– The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
– Sundowner by Hilary Menos
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