Ep 129: We Must Not Say So, ft. Andrew Wittstadt, Pt. 1

 
 
Sleerickets Ep 129
Matthew Buckley Smith

NB: Holy shit, my chair is creaking a lot in the intro. Sorry about that, I’ll try to turn down the input next time.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Heavy Bored by Andrew Wittstadt (also on Instagram, TikTok, and Patreon)

– Capital Improvements: The Initial Caps Wars by Maryann Corbett

– Dream Song 14 by John Berryman

– The editor’s note from the October issue of Poetry Magazine

– The DNC

– Button Poetry

– James Matthew Wilson

– Scribbled in the Dark by Charles Simic

– The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

– Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

– The Go to Horny Jail meme

– Glenn Loury

– John McWhorter

– Rupi Kaur

– Atticus

– Nancy Pelosi et al. kneeling in Kente cloth

– Feminine Chaos

– Jagged Little Pill

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

Frequent topics:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

More Ratbag Poetry Pods:

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I Hate Matt Wall

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