Ep 165: The Mountain Pass, ft. Philip Metres, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Fugitive/Refuge by Philip Metres
– The ALSCW Conference, where I’ll be reading with Mary Jo Salter and Christopher Childers
– The Will to Believe by William James
– 90 North by Randall Jarrell
– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
– My poem Creed for Atheists
– Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens
– White Noise by Emma Cline
– My sight, which was my power, now blurs by Arseny Tarkovsky, trans. Philip Metres
– Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction by Wallace Stevens
– A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens
– The Auroras of Autumn by Wallace Stevens
– Jesus and the woman taken in adultery
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I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
