Advice From an Unknown Poet

12. Good Advice!

What are the things that have turned out to be helpful for you? ---------------------------------------- Show notes Eileen Myles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Myles] Poetry Says ep 212. with Paul Kane [https://poetrysays.com/ep-212-paul-kane-the-view-from-the-volcano/] Ronin [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHrhOuz_QEk] (1998) Elijah’s podcast Versecraft [https://versecraft.substack.com/] Alice’s article about envy [https://newversereview.substack.com/p/we-hate-it-when-our-friends-become] Scared Shitless [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk0hSeQ5s_k] by Merlin Mann Spiderman pointing at Spiderman [https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/110133729/spiderman-pointing-at-spiderman] HEAT [https://giramondopublishing.com/heat/] SLEERICKETS [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets]

11. Poets

Tell me about a poet you admire. ---------------------------------------- Show notes Lucille Clifton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Clifton] won’t you celebrate with me [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50974/wont-you-celebrate-with-me] by Lucille Clifton The Ern Malley hoax [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley_hoax] Pam Brown [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Brown]‘s book click here for what we do [https://vagabondpress.net/products/pam-brown-untitled] The ALS gold medal [https://www.asal.org.au/awards/als-gold-medal/] Poetry Says episodes with Pam: 104 [https://poetrysays.com/ep-104-pam-brown-skeptical-optimism-in-a-post-human-age/] (underprepared) and 175 [https://poetrysays.com/ep-175-pam-brown-returns/] (better prepared) The satin bowerbird [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satin_bowerbird] Rae Armantrout [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae_Armantrout]

10. Promotion

How do you promote your poetry and put yourself out there without going insane? ---------------------------------------- Show notes Alice’s Substack [https://aliceallan.substack.com/] Alice’s book The Empty Show [https://rabbitpoetry.com/shop/allan-the-empty-show] The AWP conference [https://awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Conference-Bookfair/Overview.aspx] Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uURnrX_-v6o] by Ross Gay [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Gay] At Length [https://atlengthmag.com/]

09. Poetry

What’s the point of poetry? ---------------------------------------- Show notes Timothée Chalamet’s statement on opera and ballet [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PH4SqEuCewo] Ep 01. Fear [https://www.unknown-poet.com/2026/03/21/01-fear/] Asphodel, that Greeny Flower [https://poets.org/poem/asphodel-greeny-flower-excerpt] by William Carlos Williams Poetry Says Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don’t think I love poetry.” [https://poetrysays.com/ep-270-jonathan-farmer-i-dont-think-i-love-poetry/] On Convention [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/convention/] by Alan Shapiro Paradise Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost] by John Milton Five Bells [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Bells] by Kenneth Slessor One Art [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art] by Elizabeth Bishop The Moose [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48288/the-moose-56d22967e5820] by Elizabeth Bishop Jane Kenyon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Kenyon]

08. Kindness

How do you manage your obligations to the people who appear in your poems? ---------------------------------------- Show notes The Dolphin [https://www.amazon.com.au/Dolphin-Two-Versions-1972-1973/dp/0374538271] by Robert Lowell Alice’s poem Bad Boys for Life [https://www.newversereview.com/2-1-alice-allan] Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life [https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Michael-Nott-Thom-Gunn:-A-Cool-Queer-Life-9780571362561] by Michael Nott The Hug [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57038/the-hug]by Thom Gunn Can Love Last? [https://www.amazon.com.au/Can-Love-Last-Fate-Romance/dp/0393323730] by Stephen A. Mitchell How to Be a Family [https://www.dankois.com/how-to-be-a-family] by Dan Kois The Night of the Gun [https://www.amazon.com.au/Night-Gun-Reporter-Investigates-Darkest/dp/1416541535] by David Carr Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz [https://www.amazon.com.au/Fire-Belly-Times-David-Wojnarowicz/dp/1608194191] by Cynthia Carr Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay [https://www.penguin.com.au/books/savage-beauty-9780375760815] by Nancy Milford Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620407817/?tag=slatmaga-20] by Peta Leith Jonathan’s review of the Larkin biography [https://slate.com/culture/2014/11/james-booths-biography-of-philip-larkin-reviewed.html] Jonathan’s review of Patricia Lockwood [https://slate.com/culture/2014/06/patricia-lockwoods-poetry-collection-motherland-fatherland-homelandsexuals-reviewed.html]