SLEERICKETS

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. My book Midlife [https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith/20945363?ean=9781939574381] now exists. Buy it here [https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith/20945363?ean=9781939574381], or leave it a rating here [https://www.amazon.com/Midlife-Matthew-Buckley-Smith/dp/1939574382#customerReviews] or here [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203591067-midlife] For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com], join the group chat [https://sleerickets.substack.com/chat], and send me a poem for Listener Crit! Leave the show a rating here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleerickets/id1565263890] (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks! Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/sleerickets?ref_id=26322]. They look good! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@sleerickets]! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS [/sleerickets], subscribe to the SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com] and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: Bob Dylan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan] Boyz II Men [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyz_II_Men] A Complete Unknown [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdV-Cs5o8mc&ab_channel=SearchlightPictures] (2024) Timothée Chalamet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoth%C3%A9e_Chalamet] Malcolm Gladwell interviews Paul Simon [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2xl_MxWeIc&ab_channel=BrokenRecordPodcast] David Sims [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-sims/] John Ashbery [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashbery] Visions of Johanna [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwuCF5lYqEE&ab_channel=BobDylanVEVO] by Bob Dylan Joan Baez [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez] A League of Their Own [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA6RimS_isQ&ab_channel=RottenTomatoesClassicTrailers] (1992) Pete Seeger [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger]   The 2025 Super Bowl halftime show [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDorKy-13ak&ab_channel=NFL] Dubliners [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubliners] by James Joyce Legs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDcTLaWJuo&ab_channel=RHINO] by ZZ Top   Megan Moroney profiled in The New Yorker [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/megan-moroney-music-review#:~:text=Moroney%20is%20a%20country%20singer,builds%20to%20a%20plaintive%20confession.]   A Bar Song (Tipsy) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7bQwwqW-Hc&ab_channel=ShaboozeyVEVO] by Shaboozey Matthew and Cameron discuss books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Secret Show [https://sleerickets.substack.com/p/a-theory-of-the-fire] Chalamet's SAG Awards acceptance speech [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdPKn4ZwxxA&ab_channel=AccessHollywood] An Officer and a Gentleman [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEpu6TcmcJg&ab_channel=RottenTomatoesClassicTrailers] (1982)   Secret show notes Jazz Chisholm Jr. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Chisholm_Jr.] So We’ll Go No More a Roving [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving] by Lord Byron Richard Cory [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44982/richard-cory] by Edwin Arlington Robinson and the Simon & Garfunkel version [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAGKpoVFbmw&ab_channel=kylecrazyford] To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46546/to-the-virgins-to-make-much-of-time] by Robert Herrick Jennifer Senior [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/jennifer-senior/]   The King [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svVykTznk9Q&ab_channel=Netflix] (2019) Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan [https://twitter.com/joshuamehigan] – Shane McCrae [https://twitter.com/akasomeguy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] – A. E. Stallings [https://twitter.com/ae_stallings?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] – Ryan Wilson [https://ryanwilsonpoetry.com] – Morri Creech [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morri_Creech] – Austin Allen [https://austinallenwriting.com] – Jonathan Farmer [https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781622884728/that-peculiar-affirmative/] – Zara Raab [http://www.versedaily.org/2022/aboutzararaab.shtml] – Amit Majmudar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Majmudar] – Ethan McGuire [https://substack.com/@ethanmcguire] – Coleman Glenn [https://twitter.com/colemanglenn?lang=en] – Chris Childers [https://callidaiunctura.substack.com/] – Alexis Sears [https://www.alexissears.com/] – JP Gritton [https://www.jpgritton.com] – Alex Pepple [https://www.ablemusepress.com/authors/alexander-pepple] – Ernie Hilbert [https://www.ernesthilbert.com] – Joanna Pearson [https://www.joanna-pearson.com] Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says [https://poetrysays.com] by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall [http://www.ihatemattwall.com/category/podcast/] by Matt Wall Versecraft [https://www.ohiopoetryassn.org/versecraft] by Elijah Blumov Ratbag Poetics [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1300-ratbag-poetics-127056250/] By David Jalal Motamed Alice: In Future [https://aliceallan.substack.com] Brian: @BPlatzer [https://x.com/bplatzer] Cameron: Minor Tiresias [https://substack.com/@min0rtiresias?utm_source=substack-feed-item&utm_content=p-163850454] Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith [https://www.danielalexandersmith.com/]

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. My book Midlife [https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith/20945363?ean=9781939574381] now exists. Buy it here [https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith/20945363?ean=9781939574381], or leave it a rating here [https://www.amazon.com/Midlife-Matthew-Buckley-Smith/dp/1939574382#customerReviews] or here [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203591067-midlife] For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com], join the group chat [https://sleerickets.substack.com/chat], and send me a poem for Listener Crit! Leave the show a rating here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleerickets/id1565263890] (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks! Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/sleerickets?ref_id=26322]. They look good! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@sleerickets]! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS [/sleerickets], subscribe to the SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com] and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Fugitive/Refuge [https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/fugitive-refuge-by-philip-metres/] by Philip Metres – Dispatches from the Land of Erasure [https://press.umich.edu/Books/D/Dispatches-from-the-Land-of-Erasure] by Philip Metres – Cameron’s new Substack, Minor Tiresias [https://substack.com/@min0rtiresias] – What the Hell Is the Presidency for? [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-exploiting-past-major-mistake-justice.html] by Jonathan Farmer – Svetlana Alexievich [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alexievich] – The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry, Ed. Rita Dove [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303622/the-penguin-anthology-of-twentieth-century-american-poetry-by-edited-by-rita-dove/] – Lena Khalaf Tuffaha [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Khalaf_Tuffaha] – Fady Joudah [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fady_Joudah] – Steven Salaita [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Salaita] – Norman Finkelstein [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein] – Lawrence Joseph [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Joseph] – Heaven Looks Like Us [https://bookshop.org/p/books/heaven-looks-like-us-palestinian-poetry-noor-hindi/21645060?ean=9798888903650&next=t] (anthology of Palestinian Poetry) – Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the 1960s [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1343875] by Philip Brian Harper – Phil’s seelction of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry: “End of a Talk with a Jailer” by Samih al-Qasim https://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2007/07/samih-al-qasims-end-of-talk-with.html [https://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2007/07/samih-al-qasims-end-of-talk-with.html] “We Travel Like Other People” by Mahmoud Darwish https://rihlajourney.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/mahmoud-darwish-b-palestine-1941-we-travel-like-other-people/ [https://rihlajourney.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/mahmoud-darwish-b-palestine-1941-we-travel-like-other-people/] “State of Siege” by Mahmoud Darwish http://www.alkalimah.net/Articles/Read/8027 [http://www.alkalimah.net/Articles/Read/8027] “Against” by Rashid Hussein: https://adimagazine.com/articles/three-poems-by-rashid-hussain/ [https://adimagazine.com/articles/three-poems-by-rashid-hussain/] “We” by Ghayath Almadoun https://themarkaz.org/we-and-4978-and-one-nights-by-ghayath-almadhoun/ [https://themarkaz.org/we-and-4978-and-one-nights-by-ghayath-almadhoun/] “Write My Name” by Zeina Azzam https://www.arabamerica.com/palestinian-cry-from-gaza-write-my-name-goes-viral-in-poem-by-palestinian-american/ [https://www.arabamerica.com/palestinian-cry-from-gaza-write-my-name-goes-viral-in-poem-by-palestinian-american/] “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” by Noor Hindi https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/154658/fuck-your-lecture-on-craft-my-people-are-dying [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/154658/fuck-your-lecture-on-craft-my-people-are-dying] […] [https://jewishcurrents.org/joudah] by Fady Joudah “Jerusalem” by Naomi Shihab Nye https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54296/jerusalem-56d2347ab7a20 [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54296/jerusalem-56d2347ab7a20] “All Things Not Considered” by Naomi Shihab Nye https://mayazmi.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/all-things-not-considered-naomi-shihab-nye-women-in-poetry/ [https://mayazmi.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/all-things-not-considered-naomi-shihab-nye-women-in-poetry/] “Variations on a Last Chance” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha  https://themarkaz.org/lena-khalaf-tuffaha-two-poems/ [https://themarkaz.org/lena-khalaf-tuffaha-two-poems/] Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan [https://twitter.com/joshuamehigan] – Shane McCrae [https://twitter.com/akasomeguy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] – A. E. Stallings [https://twitter.com/ae_stallings?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] – Ryan Wilson [https://ryanwilsonpoetry.com] – Morri Creech [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morri_Creech] – Austin Allen [https://austinallenwriting.com] – Jonathan Farmer [https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781622884728/that-peculiar-affirmative/] – Zara Raab [http://www.versedaily.org/2022/aboutzararaab.shtml] – Amit Majmudar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Majmudar] – Ethan McGuire [https://substack.com/@ethanmcguire] – Coleman Glenn [https://twitter.com/colemanglenn?lang=en] – Chris Childers [https://callidaiunctura.substack.com/] – Alexis Sears [https://www.alexissears.com/] – JP Gritton [https://www.jpgritton.com] – Alex Pepple [https://www.ablemusepress.com/authors/alexander-pepple] – Ernie Hilbert [https://www.ernesthilbert.com] – Joanna Pearson [https://www.joanna-pearson.com] Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says [https://poetrysays.com] by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall [http://www.ihatemattwall.com/category/podcast/] by Matt Wall Versecraft [https://www.ohiopoetryassn.org/versecraft] by Elijah Blumov Ratbag Poetics [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1300-ratbag-poetics-127056250/] By David Jalal Motamed Alice: In Future [https://aliceallan.substack.com] Brian: @BPlatzer [https://x.com/bplatzer] Cameron: Minor Tiresias [https://substack.com/@min0rtiresias?utm_source=substack-feed-item&utm_content=p-163850454] Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith [https://www.danielalexandersmith.com/]

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. My book Midlife [https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith/20945363?ean=9781939574381] now exists. Buy it here [https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith/20945363?ean=9781939574381], or leave it a rating here [https://www.amazon.com/Midlife-Matthew-Buckley-Smith/dp/1939574382#customerReviews] or here [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203591067-midlife] For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com] and join the group chat [https://sleerickets.substack.com/chat] Leave the show a rating here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleerickets/id1565263890] (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks! Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/sleerickets?ref_id=26322]. They look good! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@sleerickets]! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS [/sleerickets], subscribe to the SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com] and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Frost Farm Prize, etc. [https://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/prize] Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan [https://twitter.com/joshuamehigan] – Shane McCrae [https://twitter.com/akasomeguy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] – A. E. Stallings [https://twitter.com/ae_stallings?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] – Ryan Wilson [https://ryanwilsonpoetry.com] – Morri Creech [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morri_Creech] – Austin Allen [https://austinallenwriting.com] – Jonathan Farmer [https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781622884728/that-peculiar-affirmative/] – Zara Raab [http://www.versedaily.org/2022/aboutzararaab.shtml] – Amit Majmudar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Majmudar] – Ethan McGuire [https://substack.com/@ethanmcguire] – Coleman Glenn [https://twitter.com/colemanglenn?lang=en] – Chris Childers [https://callidaiunctura.substack.com/] – Alexis Sears [https://www.alexissears.com/] – JP Gritton [https://www.jpgritton.com] – Alex Pepple [https://www.ablemusepress.com/authors/alexander-pepple] – Ernie Hilbert [https://www.ernesthilbert.com] – Joanna Pearson [https://www.joanna-pearson.com] Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says [https://poetrysays.com] by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall [http://www.ihatemattwall.com/category/podcast/] by Matt Wall Versecraft [https://www.ohiopoetryassn.org/versecraft] by Elijah Blumov Ratbag Poetics [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1300-ratbag-poetics-127056250/] By David Jalal Motamed Alice: Poetry Says [https://poetrysays.com] Brian: @BPlatzer Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith [https://www.danielalexandersmith.com/]

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: (1.) Sorry for the abbreviated show notes recently. (2.) At one point I say “assonance” where I clearly mean “anaphora.” (3.) At one point I say “Larkin” where I clearly mean “Auden.” My book Midlife [https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith/20945363?ean=9781939574381] now exists. Buy it here [https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith/20945363?ean=9781939574381], or leave it a rating here [https://www.amazon.com/Midlife-Matthew-Buckley-Smith/dp/1939574382#customerReviews] or here [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203591067-midlife] For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com] and join the group chat [https://sleerickets.substack.com/chat] Leave the show a rating here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleerickets/id1565263890] (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks! Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/sleerickets?ref_id=26322]. They look good! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@sleerickets]! Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Frost Farm Prize, etc. [https://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/prize] Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan [https://twitter.com/joshuamehigan] – Shane McCrae [https://twitter.com/akasomeguy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] – A. E. Stallings [https://twitter.com/ae_stallings?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] – Ryan Wilson [https://ryanwilsonpoetry.com] – Morri Creech [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morri_Creech] – Austin Allen [https://austinallenwriting.com] – Jonathan Farmer [https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781622884728/that-peculiar-affirmative/] – Zara Raab [http://www.versedaily.org/2022/aboutzararaab.shtml] – Amit Majmudar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Majmudar] – Ethan McGuire [https://substack.com/@ethanmcguire] – Coleman Glenn [https://twitter.com/colemanglenn?lang=en] – Chris Childers [https://callidaiunctura.substack.com/] – Alexis Sears [https://www.alexissears.com/] – JP Gritton [https://www.jpgritton.com] – Alex Pepple [https://www.ablemusepress.com/authors/alexander-pepple] – Ernie Hilbert [https://www.ernesthilbert.com] – Joanna Pearson [https://www.joanna-pearson.com] Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says [https://poetrysays.com] by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall [http://www.ihatemattwall.com/category/podcast/] by Matt Wall Versecraft [https://www.ohiopoetryassn.org/versecraft] by Elijah Blumov Ratbag Poetics [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1300-ratbag-poetics-127056250/] By David Jalal Motamed Alice: Poetry Says [https://poetrysays.com] Brian: @BPlatzer Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith [https://www.danielalexandersmith.com/]

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. My book Midlife [https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith/20945363?ean=9781939574381] now exists. Buy it here [https://bookshop.org/p/books/midlife-matthew-buckley-smith/20945363?ean=9781939574381], or leave it a rating here [https://www.amazon.com/Midlife-Matthew-Buckley-Smith/dp/1939574382#customerReviews] or here [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203591067-midlife] For more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com] and join the group chat [https://sleerickets.substack.com/chat] Leave the show a rating here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleerickets/id1565263890] (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks! Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/sleerickets?ref_id=26322]. They look good! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@sleerickets]! Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan [https://twitter.com/joshuamehigan] – Shane McCrae [https://twitter.com/akasomeguy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] – A. E. Stallings [https://twitter.com/ae_stallings?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] – Ryan Wilson [https://ryanwilsonpoetry.com] – Morri Creech [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morri_Creech] – Austin Allen [https://austinallenwriting.com] – Jonathan Farmer [https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781622884728/that-peculiar-affirmative/] – Zara Raab [http://www.versedaily.org/2022/aboutzararaab.shtml] – Amit Majmudar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Majmudar] – Ethan McGuire [https://substack.com/@ethanmcguire] – Coleman Glenn [https://twitter.com/colemanglenn?lang=en] – Chris Childers [https://callidaiunctura.substack.com/] – Alexis Sears [https://www.alexissears.com/] – JP Gritton [https://www.jpgritton.com] – Alex Pepple [https://www.ablemusepress.com/authors/alexander-pepple] – Ernie Hilbert [https://www.ernesthilbert.com] – Joanna Pearson [https://www.joanna-pearson.com] Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says [https://poetrysays.com] by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall [http://www.ihatemattwall.com/category/podcast/] by Matt Wall Versecraft [https://www.ohiopoetryassn.org/versecraft] by Elijah Blumov Ratbag Poetics [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1300-ratbag-poetics-127056250/] By David Jalal Motamed Alice: Poetry Says [https://poetrysays.com] Brian: @BPlatzer Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith [https://www.danielalexandersmith.com/]