Ep 161: Handbook for the Recently Deceased Poet

 

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Ep 161
Matthew Buckley Smith

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NB1: It turns out there is in fact some record of Heraclitus the poet, outside of Callimachus’ poem, but not much.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Material Witness: Remembering an Abiding Debt to Timothy Murphy by Maryann Corbett

– Wildfire Season by Maryann Corbett

– Timothy Murphy

– Maryann Corbett

– Alan Sullivan

– Eratosphere

– Aaron Poochigian

– Alex Pepple

– Richard Wilbur

– Quincy Lehr

– Lin-Manuel Miranda

– Champagne Sharks

– The West Wing

– Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney

– Breakfast at Brennan’s by Timothy Murphy

– Prison Chaplain by Timothy Murphy

– The Failure by Timothy Murphy

– The Dead Poet by Timothy Murphy

– The Drowned Immortal by Timothy Murphy

– Only Poems

– Paging Dr. Platzmouth

– The Stars Shine Without Me by Matt Cardin

– Chris Childers

– The Dowser’s Ear by Wilmer Mills (the poem, I think, that Stallings read in memory of Mills at the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference)

– Heraclitus by William Johnson Cory

– Rachel Wetzsteon

– Hart Crane

– Jay Wright

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Amit Majmudar

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

– Ernie Hilbert

– Joanna Pearson

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

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