Ep 30: Letters to a Middle-Aged Poet, ft. Alice Allan
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The four types of poetry podcasts
– A recent episode of Alice Allan’s podcast Poetry Says
– Alice’s book The Empty Show
– Red Scare and The Garret
– George Orwell’s essay “Poetry and the Microphone”
– Finding your voice as a poet
– Shane McCrae’s essay “My War with John Ashbery”
– David Shurman Wallace’s essay “Dead Poet Anxiety”
– Extremely online poets
– Shane McCrae’s poem “Jim Limber on Continuity in Heaven”
– Harold Bloom’s book The Anxiety of Influence
– Instagram poet Kate Baer
– Famous nonexistent Australian poet Ern Malley
– Nobody wants to write reviews
– Ben Marcus’ book Notable American Women
– Kaveh Akbar’s bad blurb for the inaccurately titled Best Poems of Jane Kenyon
– John Ashbery’s poem “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”
– John Ashbery’s poem “The Instruction Manual”
– John Ashbery’s poem “Some Trees”
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
