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Ep 248: The Montreal Fiasco, ft. Ernest Hilbert, Pt. 1

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation [https://buymeacoffee.com/zRG0RCLpzE] (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com]! Leave the show a rating here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleerickets/id1565263890]! 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 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so g [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown]ood! Now give Brian’s book a 5-star r [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown]eview! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316576956/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20optimists&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_13_de&crid=3JY16Q4D02C6R&sprefix=the%20optimists] – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown] now! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316576956/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20optimists&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_13_de&crid=3JY16Q4D02C6R&sprefix=the%20optimists] Ep 122: The Sore Thumb Crisis, ft. Ernie Hilbert [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/8s9eddtexhe2tyj-a4aw5-5dpdg-drylj-jrmdp-en3d5-j874y-zxa5e-eslbm-rymjp-cbm5d-tyjyd-mb5aa-kk5ja-fwwll-rkmp6-72xyj-mg9ew-cb6tn-kncwh-xbdzs-lykmt-8f8hk-f8emm-nczs2-y7mfs-r7m6a] Poetry readings I have kn [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/8s9eddtexhe2tyj-a4aw5-5dpdg-drylj-jrmdp-en3d5-j874y-zxa5e-eslbm-rymjp-cbm5d-tyjyd-mb5aa-kk5ja-fwwll-rkmp6-72xyj-mg9ew-cb6tn-kncwh-xbdzs-lykmt-8f8hk-f8emm-nczs2-y7mfs-r7m6a]own by Ernie Hilbert [https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/commentary/poetry-readings-i-have-known-essay-ernest-hilbert] The Red Tower by Thomas Ligo [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/8s9eddtexhe2tyj-a4aw5-5dpdg-drylj-jrmdp-en3d5-j874y-zxa5e-eslbm-rymjp-cbm5d-tyjyd-mb5aa-kk5ja-fwwll-rkmp6-72xyj-mg9ew-cb6tn-kncwh-xbdzs-lykmt-8f8hk-f8emm-nczs2-y7mfs-r7m6a]tti [https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/commentary/poetry-readings-i-have-known-essay-ernest-hilbert] This Lime-t [https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/commentary/poetry-readings-i-have-known-essay-ernest-hilbert]ree Bower my Prison by Samuel T [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/8s9eddtexhe2tyj-a4aw5-5dpdg-drylj-jrmdp-en3d5-j874y-zxa5e-eslbm-rymjp-cbm5d-tyjyd-mb5aa-kk5ja-fwwll-rkmp6-72xyj-mg9ew-cb6tn-kncwh-xbdzs-lykmt-8f8hk-f8emm-nczs2-y7mfs-r7m6a]aylo [https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/commentary/poetry-readings-i-have-known-essay-ernest-hilbert]r Coleridge [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/8s9eddtexhe2tyj-a4aw5-5dpdg-drylj-jrmdp-en3d5-j874y-zxa5e-eslbm-rymjp-cbm5d-tyjyd-mb5aa-kk5ja-fwwll-rkmp6-72xyj-mg9ew-cb6tn-kncwh-xbdzs-lykmt-8f8hk-f8emm-nczs2-y7mfs-r7m6a] Easton Press [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/8s9eddtexhe2tyj-a4aw5-5dpdg-drylj-jrmdp-en3d5-j874y-zxa5e-eslbm-rymjp-cbm5d-tyjyd-mb5aa-kk5ja-fwwll-rkmp6-72xyj-mg9ew-cb6tn-kncwh-xbdzs-lykmt-8f8hk-f8emm-nczs2-y7mfs-r7m6a] Franklin Library 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[https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/8s9eddtexhe2tyj-a4aw5-5dpdg-drylj-jrmdp-en3d5-j874y-zxa5e-eslbm-rymjp-cbm5d-tyjyd-mb5aa-kk5ja-fwwll-rkmp6-72xyj-mg9ew-cb6tn-kncwh-xbdzs-lykmt-8f8hk-f8emm-nczs2-y7mfs-r7m6a]ligulan by Ernie Hi [https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/commentary/poetry-readings-i-have-known-essay-ernest-hilbert]lbert [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/8s9eddtexhe2tyj-a4aw5-5dpdg-drylj-jrmdp-en3d5-j874y-zxa5e-eslbm-rymjp-cbm5d-tyjyd-mb5aa-kk5ja-fwwll-rkmp6-72xyj-mg9ew-cb6tn-kncwh-xbdzs-lykmt-8f8hk-f8emm-nczs2-y7mfs-r7m6a] ContraPoints: Cringe [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/8s9eddtexhe2tyj-a4aw5-5dpdg-drylj-jrmdp-en3d5-j874y-zxa5e-eslbm-rymjp-cbm5d-tyjyd-mb5aa-kk5ja-fwwll-rkmp6-72xyj-mg9ew-cb6tn-kncwh-xbdzs-lykmt-8f8hk-f8emm-nczs2-y7mfs-r7m6a] Toynbee tiles 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Ep 247: Listener Crit #11

NB: Apologies to all the people to whom I owe emails! Solo with the girls and trying to meet some deadlines, so I’ve been a zombie. I promise I’ll write you soon! SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation [https://buymeacoffee.com/zRG0RCLpzE] (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com]! Leave the show a rating here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleerickets/id1565263890]! 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 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so g [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown]ood!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star r [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown]eview! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316576956/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20optimists&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_13_de&crid=3JY16Q4D02C6R&sprefix=the%20optimists] – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown] now! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316576956/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20optimists&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_13_de&crid=3JY16Q4D02C6R&sprefix=the%20optimists] – The Frost Farm Prize results [https://www.frostfarmpoetry.org/prize-2026-results] – Why Don’t People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do People Like? [https://substack.com/@danielcowper/p-194472727] by Daniel Cowper – Ep 246: The Case for Didactic Poetry Part 1 [/sleerickets/4k6zb3kmfg8c8xb-k67c2-wens4-l94z8-2bl2n-xrx9b-df5gt-xd5hx-nyzlg-p93jf-5dpxs-f2das-j2xzn-t434k-lpr9z-gblxs] & Part 2 [https://sleerickets.substack.com/p/a-case-for-didactic-poetry-ft-daniel] – L’Allegro [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44731/lallegro], Il Penseroso [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44732/il-penseroso], and Lycidas [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44733/lycidas] by John Milton – Odysseus’ Last Return to Ithaca [https://www.literarymatters.org/18-1-odysseus-last-return-to-ithaca/] by Pedro Poitevin – XXIV [https://allpoetry.com/Love,-We-Must-Part-Now] by Philip Larkin – Dune [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)] by Frank Herbert – Dune (2021) [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TF_QOaYVSLY] F [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt]requently mentioned name [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt]s: [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt] – Jo [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/]shua Mehigan [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt] – Shane Mc [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt]Crae [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt] – [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt]A. E. Stalling [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/]s [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt] – Ryan Wilson [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt] – Morri Creech [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/] – Austin Allen [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/] – Jonathan Farmer [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/] – Zara Raab [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/] – Ami [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/]t Majmudar [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/4k6zb3kmfg8c8xb-k67c2-wens4-l94z8-2bl2n-xrx9b-df5gt-xd5hx-nyzlg-p93jf-5dpxs-f2das-j2xzn-t434k] – Ethan McGuire [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/4k6zb3kmfg8c8xb-k67c2-wens4-l94z8-2bl2n-xrx9b-df5gt-xd5hx-nyzlg-p93jf-5dpxs-f2das-j2xzn-t434k] – Colem [https://32poems.com/poem/nida-sophasarun/]an Glenn [https://marjoriehmorgan.blogspot.com/2011/11/corniche-poetry-by-les-murray.html] – Chris [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKJpx8FYp54]Ch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzvBYFrhOc]i [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)]lders [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKdtkf1Jb8] – Alexis S [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKdtkf1Jb8]ears [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pGJBgiiDU] – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pGJBgiiDU]J [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzvBYFrhOc]P Grit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu]ton [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKdtkf1Jb8] – Alex Peppl [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKdtkf1Jb8]e [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pGJBgiiDU] – Ern [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pGJBgiiDU]ie Hi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)]lbert [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu] – Jo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu]anna Pearson [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKJpx8FYp54] – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKJpx8FYp54] M [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzvBYFrhOc]at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie]t [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYGo0UgIVM]Wall [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu] – Stev [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu]e K [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)]nepper [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzvBYFrhOc] – He [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzvBYFrhOc]le [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)]na F [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYGo0UgIVM]e [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqe7s6pO7g]der [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie] – D [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie]avid Yezzi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)] – Victo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)]ria M [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYGo0UgIVM]oul [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie] – Katie Dozier & [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie]Tim Green [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYGo0UgIVM] –  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYGo0UgIVM]George David Cla [https://32poems.com/prose/where-the-money-is/]rk [https://filmquarterly.org/] – [https://filmquarterly.org/] Tristram [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqe7s6pO7g] Fane Saunders [https://32poems.com/prose/where-the-money-is/] –  [https://32poems.com/prose/where-the-money-is/]Phili [https://filmquarterly.org/]p Metres [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqe7s6pO7g] – Helena Fed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqe7s6pO7g]e [https://helenafeder.com]r [https://filmquarterly.org/] – Nida Soph [https://filmquarterly.org/]asarun [https://lsupress.org/author/nida-sophasarun/] 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 Perseus Blumov [https://www.elijahperseusblumov.com] Advice from an Unknown Poet [https://www.unknown-poet.com] by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Ratbag Poetics [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1300-ratbag-poetics-127056250/] By David Jalal Motamed Alice: In Future Posts [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/]

Ep 246: A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper, Pt. 1

NB: Another poem (one of Jonathan’s favorites) about having an orange and not wanting to kill yourself. [https://gladdestthing.com/poems/the-orange] SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation [https://buymeacoffee.com/zRG0RCLpzE] (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com]! Leave the show a rating here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleerickets/id1565263890]! 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 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so g [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown]ood!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star r [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown]eview! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316576956/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20optimists&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_13_de&crid=3JY16Q4D02C6R&sprefix=the%20optimists] – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown] now! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316576956/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20optimists&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_13_de&crid=3JY16Q4D02C6R&sprefix=the%20optimists] – Why Don’t People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do People Like? [https://substack.com/@danielcowper/p-194472727] by Daniel Cowper – Kingdom of the Clock [https://www.mqup.ca/Books/K/Kingdom-of-the-Clock] by Daniel Cowper – A Review of The Soft Black Stars [https://newversereview.substack.com/p/a-review-of-the-soft-black-stars] by Sunil Iyengar – On Not Knowing How to Start [https://tarriverpoetry.com/sunil-iyengar/] by Sunil Iyengar – What He Really Wanted [https://zinagomezliss.substack.com/p/what-he-really-wanted-from-me] by Zina Gomez-Liss – If [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---] by Rudyard Kipling – Ep 245: The Tuna Incident, ft. Nida Sophasarun [/sleerickets/4k6zb3kmfg8c8xb-k67c2-wens4-l94z8-2bl2n-xrx9b-df5gt-xd5hx-nyzlg-p93jf-5dpxs-f2das-j2xzn-t434k-lpr9z] – Giving the Devil His Due [https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/giving-the-devil-his-due] by Elijah Perseus Blumov – September 1, 1939 [https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939] by W. H. Auden – On the Inner Nature of Art [/s/on-the-inner-nature-of-art.pdf] by Arthur Schopenhauer – On the origin of poetry [/s/on-the-origin-of-poetry.pdf] by Friedrich Nietzsche F [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt]requently mentioned name [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt]s: [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt] – Jo [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/]shua Mehigan [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt] – Shane Mc [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt]Crae [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt] – [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt]A. E. Stalling [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/]s [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt] – Ryan Wilson [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt] – Morri Creech [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/] – Austin Allen [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/] – Jonathan Farmer [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/] – Zara Raab [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/] – Ami [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/]t Majmudar [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/4k6zb3kmfg8c8xb-k67c2-wens4-l94z8-2bl2n-xrx9b-df5gt-xd5hx-nyzlg-p93jf-5dpxs-f2das-j2xzn-t434k] – Ethan McGuire [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/4k6zb3kmfg8c8xb-k67c2-wens4-l94z8-2bl2n-xrx9b-df5gt-xd5hx-nyzlg-p93jf-5dpxs-f2das-j2xzn-t434k] – Colem [https://32poems.com/poem/nida-sophasarun/]an Glenn [https://marjoriehmorgan.blogspot.com/2011/11/corniche-poetry-by-les-murray.html] – Chris [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKJpx8FYp54]Ch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzvBYFrhOc]i [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)]lders [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKdtkf1Jb8] – Alexis S [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKdtkf1Jb8]ears [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pGJBgiiDU] – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pGJBgiiDU]J [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzvBYFrhOc]P Grit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu]ton [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKdtkf1Jb8] – Alex Peppl [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKdtkf1Jb8]e [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pGJBgiiDU] – Ern [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pGJBgiiDU]ie Hi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)]lbert [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu] – Jo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu]anna Pearson [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKJpx8FYp54] – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKJpx8FYp54] M [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzvBYFrhOc]at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie]t [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYGo0UgIVM]Wall [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu] – Stev [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu]e K [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)]nepper [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzvBYFrhOc] – He [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzvBYFrhOc]le [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)]na F [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYGo0UgIVM]e [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqe7s6pO7g]der [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie] – D [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie]avid Yezzi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)] – Victo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)]ria M [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYGo0UgIVM]oul [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie] – Katie Dozier & [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie]Tim Green [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYGo0UgIVM] –  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYGo0UgIVM]George David Cla [https://32poems.com/prose/where-the-money-is/]rk [https://filmquarterly.org/] – [https://filmquarterly.org/] Tristram [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqe7s6pO7g] Fane Saunders [https://32poems.com/prose/where-the-money-is/] –  [https://32poems.com/prose/where-the-money-is/]Phili [https://filmquarterly.org/]p Metres [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqe7s6pO7g] – Helena Fed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqe7s6pO7g]e [https://helenafeder.com]r [https://filmquarterly.org/] – Nida Soph [https://filmquarterly.org/]asarun [https://lsupress.org/author/nida-sophasarun/] 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 Perseus Blumov [https://www.elijahperseusblumov.com] Advice from an Unknown Poet [https://www.unknown-poet.com] by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Ratbag Poetics [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1300-ratbag-poetics-127056250/] By David Jalal Motamed Alice: In Future Posts [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/]

Ep 245: The Tuna Incident, ft. Nida Sophasarun

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation [https://buymeacoffee.com/zRG0RCLpzE] (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com]! Leave the show a rating here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleerickets/id1565263890]! 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 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so g [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown]ood!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star r [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown]eview! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316576956/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20optimists&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_13_de&crid=3JY16Q4D02C6R&sprefix=the%20optimists] – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown] now! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316576956/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20optimists&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_13_de&crid=3JY16Q4D02C6R&sprefix=the%20optimists] Novice [https://lsupress.org/9780807183908/novice/] by Ni [https://lsupress.org/9780807183908/novice/]da Sophasarun An Inc [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt]omplet [https://lsupress.org/9780807183908/novice/]e Mentorsh [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt]ip by Rachel Jamison Web [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt]ster Ellen [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt]Bryant [https://lsupress.org/9780807183908/novice/] Voigt [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt] A [https://yalereview.org/article/rachel-jamison-webster-ellen-bryant-voigt]dvice [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt] from [https://lsupress.org/9780807183908/novice/]an Unknown [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/04/18/05-bad-advice/]Poet Ep [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bryant-voigt] 05. 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Ep 244: Possible Horrible Truth, Pt. 1

NB: Sideways was actually co-written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne. SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation [https://buymeacoffee.com/zRG0RCLpzE] (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW [https://sleerickets.substack.com]! Leave the show a rating here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleerickets/id1565263890]! 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 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so g [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown]ood!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star r [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown]eview! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316576956/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20optimists&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_13_de&crid=3JY16Q4D02C6R&sprefix=the%20optimists] – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown] now! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316576956/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20optimists&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_13_de&crid=3JY16Q4D02C6R&sprefix=the%20optimists] – Poems Beautiful and Useful [https://www.headlesspoet.com/shop/p/poems-beautiful-useful], ed. Victoria Moul [https://www.headlesspoet.com/shop/p/poems-beautiful-useful] – To Lucasta, Going to the Wars [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44658/to-lucasta-going-to-the-wars] by Richard Lovelace – Greater Metropolitan Shatador, ft. Victoria Moul [/sleerickets/pe8nshntt6xxfex-zfjcw-ppapj-976xb-4ajcg-ssjbt-yzmdc-ktjcx-gjcfl-89e9e-33pyy] – The Matrix (1999) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjoad6gcRzs] – Jenny, the Halloween Spy [https://jestressforgottenstories.com/2017/10/11/jenny-the-halloween-spy/#jp-carousel-15883] by Lillie Patterson – The Statue of Responsibility (the one about Man’s Search for Meaning) [/sleerickets/hs9f8c7w64878nd-gc7ct-3xea4-8s9dt-watn4-yb6n5-ctcs3-s92n7-2t448-d9nax-77ke2-ns3t9-gd96y-6m87d-gstay] – The Denial of Death [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death] by Ernest Becker – Infinite Jest [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest] by David Foster Wallace – The Razor’s Edge [https://the razor's edge maugham] by W. Somerset Maugham – The Optimists [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown] by Brian Platzer – The Mattering Instinct [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Goldstein] by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein – The Last Messiah [https://openairphilosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/OAP_Zapffe_Last_Messiah.pdf] by Peter Zapffe – The Conspiracy Against the Human Race [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conspiracy_Against_the_Human_Race] by Thomas Ligotti – Inferno I, 32 [https://biblioklept.org/2013/05/31/inferno-i-32-jorge-luis-borges/] by Jorge Luis Borges – Sideways (2004) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcS_GKiPGjM] – The Gay Science [https://allpoetry.com/Parable-Of-The-Madman] by Friedrich Nietzsche – Big in Romania, ft. Versecraft (the one where Elijah talks with Alice about The Denial of Death) [/sleerickets/f27amak4rbj4esx-d5797-rxn52-7bg5j-xft4b-g72lt-78wx6-26ec3-jnxhh-f9tgj-8mllm-56554-hdcsy-hremz-kwj5p-dfrnl-7ryny-2pc44] – St. Judas [https://allpoetry.com/saint-judas] by James Wright – The Mountain Pass, ft. Philip Metres, Part 1 [/sleerickets/pe8nshntt6xxfex-zfjcw-ppapj-976xb-4ajcg-ssjbt-yzmdc-ktjcx-gjcfl-89e9e-33pyy-yby8c-5e68z-9kh7w-egrye-tyblf-9fyke-jydn9-6b26n-cmpyj] & Part 2 [https://sleerickets.substack.com/p/ep-115-the-mountain-pass-ft-philip?utm_source=home] – Tichborne’s Elegy [https://poetryarchive.org/poem/tichbornes-elegy/] by Chidiock Tichborne – Happy were he could finish forth his fate by Robert Devereaux – Ode on Solitude [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46561/ode-on-solitude] by Alexander Pope – Ars Poetica [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0065%3Acard%3D1] by Horace – Epode ii [https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/109243/original/] by Horace – The Fall of Rome [https://poets.org/poem/fall-rome] by W. H. Auden – Riddley Walker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddley_Walker] by Russell Hoban Frequently mentioned names: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY2LDXHwaO4] – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY2LDXHwaO4] Joshua [https://www.unknown-poet.com/]Mehig [https://twitter.com/joshuamehigan]an [https://nightboat.org/book/proxies/] – S [https://nightboat.org/book/proxies/]hane 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] – Matt Wall [https://www.instagram.com/ihatemattwall/] – Steve Knepper [https://substack.com/@steveknepper] – Helena Feder [https://english.ecu.edu/people/faculty/helena-feder/] – David Yezzi [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yezzi] – Victoria Moul [https://vamoul.substack.com] – Katie Dozier & Tim Green [https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/thepoetryspace] – George David Clark [http://www.georgedavidclark.com] – Tristram Fane Saunders [https://tristramfanesaunders.com] – Philip Metres [https://philipmetres.com] – Helena Feder [https://helenafeder.com] – Nida Sophasarun [https://lsupress.org/author/nida-sophasarun/] 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 Perseus Blumov [https://www.elijahperseusblumov.com] Advice from an Unknown Poet [https://www.unknown-poet.com] by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Ratbag Poetics [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1300-ratbag-poetics-127056250/] By David Jalal Motamed Alice: In Future Posts [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/]