Ep 159: For F***’s Sake Finally, ft. Versecraft
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Poetry Says Ep 256. Antarctica
– The inaugural issue of New Verse Review (ft. work by Zara, Victoria, Michael, Marly, Katie, JMW (da-da-dummmm), Ethan, Elijah, Amit, and Maryann Corbett, among many others!)
– The Iliad by Homer
– The Aeneid by Virgil
– The Metamorphoses by Ovid
– Their Lonely Betters by W. H. Auden
– Horace iii.25 (the one Elijah says is atypical)
– The Greeks and the Irrational by E. R. Dodd
– The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
– Ion by Plato
– The Bacchae by Euripides
– The Oresteia by Aeschylus
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Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
