Ep 191: Closing Time at the Horse & Groom, ft. Tristram Fane Saunders, Pt. 1

 

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Ep 191
Matthew Buckley Smith

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The Little Review

– Tristram Fane Saunders

– Tristram’s review selections:

Useful Quotes

Memorably Good Reviews

Jorie Graham Reviews

Tristram’s review of Jorie Graham

– A. O. Scott’s Poetry Lessons by Jonathan Farmer

– Alice’s Substack

– On Fear by Alice Allan

– Better by Alice Allan

– David Orr

– Anthony Madrid

– The Rusty Paperweight: April ‘25 by Ethan McGuire

– Alex Wong

– The Adroit Journal

– The Poetry Review

– Birds, Beasts, and Flowers by D. H. Lawrence

– On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt

– Carol Rumens

– Andrew Chan

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

– Chris Childers

– 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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