Ep 200: The Neck Tattoo
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Secret History by Donna Tartt
– The Poet Eaters by Alice Allan & James Jiang
– Better: On the Delusions of Writing Advice by Alice Allan
– For John Berryman by Robert Lowell
– Though I am young, and cannot tell by Ben Jonson
– A Taxonomy of Conversational Forms
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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: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
