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: – Donate to Matt’s Seasons of the Muse Indiegogo fundraiser! [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/seasons-of-the-muse#/] – Bukowski Pod [https://bukowskipod.substack.com/podcast] – Poetic Anarchy Press [https://www.instagram.com/poeticanarchypress/] – Shaylynn Marks [https://www.shaylynnmarks.com] – When I Was a Poet [https://citylights.com/pocket-poets-series/when-i-was-a-poet-pp-60/] by David Meltzer – Neeli Cherkovski [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neeli_Cherkovski] – Charles Bukowski [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski] – Allen Ginsberg [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg] – Martin Esslin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Esslin] – The Meat Poets [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Richmond_(poet)] – The Beat Generation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation] – The Theatre of the Absurd [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_absurd] – Lawrence Ferlinghetti [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti] – Gregory Corso [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Corso] – The San Francisco Renaissance [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Renaissance] – Jack Kerouac [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac] – Ocean Vuong [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Vuong] – Andrea Long Chu’s review of Ocean Vuong [https://www.vulture.com/article/ocean-vuong-the-emperor-of-gladness-book-review.html] – Tom Crewe’s review of Ocean Vuong [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n11/tom-crewe/my-hands-in-my-face] – The Black Mountain Poets [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_poets] – So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5AEypH1Sl0&themeRefresh=1] – Ben Jonson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson] – Robert Herrick [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Herrick_(poet)] – The Tribe of Ben [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Ben_(literary_group)] – The Hatred of Poetry [https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-hatred-of-poetry/] by Ben Lerner – Leaving the Atocha Station [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaving_the_Atocha_Station] by Ben Lerner – Douglas Blazek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Blazek] – Weird Mask Magazine [https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Mask-25-Matt-Wall/dp/B09F14SRGL] – Arthur Rimbaud [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud] – Holly Day [https://loft.org/artists/holly-day] – Adam Crawford [https://adamcrawfordpoet.bandcamp.com] – Francois Villon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Villon] – The Creative Act [https://sites.prh.com/thecreativeact] by Rick Rubin – The Art Spirit [https://www.roberthenrimuseum.org/product-page/the-art-spirit-by-robert-henri] by Robert Henri – Black Square [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Square] by Kazimir Malevich – On the Beach [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)] by Nevil Schutes – Every Day Is Like Sunday [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0LeL9BUPtA] by Morrissey – New and Collected Hell [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374615499/newandcollectedhell/] by Shane McCrae – I Am 25 [https://allpoetry.com/I-Am-25] by Gregory Corso – Pier Paolo Pasolini [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini] – The Portrait Gallery Called Existence [https://citylights.com/general-poetry/portrait-gallery-called-existence/] by Neeli Cherkovski – Night Sky with Exit Wounds [https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/night-sky-with-exit-wounds-by-ocean-vuong/] by Ocean Vuong – Seventh Circle of Earth [https://onbeing.org/poetry/seventh-circle-of-earth/] by Ocean Vuong – An Epistle Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the Tribe [https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/epistle-answering-one-asked-be-sealed-tribe-ben] of Ben by Ben Jonson – Without [https://bookshop.org/p/books/without-poems-donald-hall/11284892?ean=9780395957653&next=t] by Donald Hall 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] – Matt Wall [https://www.instagram.com/ihatemattwall/] 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 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/]

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: I said pull quotes but they’re actually, like, source quotes or something. 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: – I’ve got some poems in the terrific new issue of Poetry London! [https://poetrylondon.co.uk] – Niall Campbell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Campbell_(poet)] – Mark Leidner’s interview with Hilary Plum [https://markleidner.substack.com/p/what-is-plot-and-an-interview-with] – ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/chatgpt-ai-self-mutilation-satanism/683649/] by Lila Shroff – Brad Listi’s interview with Jessa Crispin [https://bradlisti.substack.com/p/making-the-private-world-public] – Ep 195: The White Guy Publishing Vortex, ft. Ethan McGuire, Pt. 1 [/sleerickets/sh7gk2sjw3cma67-23e9s-b73tn-4yrww-gm6t9-8js6w-tmg24-eetwz-txm9g-y72by-f3zhl-773zf-d6zrp-sw6he-4j2m2-fcrmg-mssat-6yh9l-czlg5-dprf8-dg625-s5db7-bllf2] & Pt. 2 [https://sleerickets.substack.com/p/the-white-guy-publishing-vortex-ft] – Ep 204: Darkness Audible [/sleerickets/f27amak4rbj4esx] – Jay Caspian Kang [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Caspian_Kang] – Freddie deBoer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_deBoer] – Hell House (2001) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXxfIktv8RQ] – Roko’s Basilisk [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk] 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 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/]

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Did I forget about Hitler? you ask. Did I forget about Stalin? On the one hand, yes, I temporarily did. On the other, there’s something about the notion that Gilles de Rais did all this personally in his own home for the explicit purpose of impressing the Devil with his evilness that really sickens the soul. But yes, good point, there’s always Hitler, who was, in his own way, the worst person who ever lived. 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: – Paradise Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost] by John Milton – Conspiracy [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI&themeRefresh=1] by ContraPoints – Cameron’s travel notes [https://substack.com/home/post/p-167589645] – This Pleasing Anxious Being [https://figuratives.tumblr.com/post/11346451711/this-pleasing-anxious-being] by Richard Wilbur – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44299/elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard] by Thomas Gray – The Versecraft interview w/ James Matthew Wilson [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7JEf3ACOp0VyyYaL2QiQva] – The Death of Cicero [https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2024/01/18/poetry-cicero-truth-martyr-246969] by James Matthew Wilson (compare the first line to the first line of Leda and the Swan [https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=leda+and+the+swan&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8] by W. B. Yeats) – The Master and Margarita [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita] by Mikhail Bulgakov – How to Blow Up a Pipeline [https://www.versobooks.com/products/2649-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline?srsltid=AfmBOop-qIZH1hnqkcOTbFBlKK3AYdlNrCClYbLLyPDWEkwCLzQXV1Ur] by Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSb585bGYmQ] – Bronze Age Mindset [https://kyl.neocities.org/books/%5BSOC%20BRO%5D%20bronze%20age%20mindset.pdf] by Bronze Age Pervert – ContraPoints’ comment on Gaza [https://x.com/Dexertonox/status/1943137975413465504] – Ready or Not (2019) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYTwUxhAoI] & The Babysitter (2017) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qibY77AWlUc] (same concept, same cosmology, same leading lady, both pretty entertaining) – The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_Adventures_of_Sabrina_(TV_series)] – Evil [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_(TV_series)] – Rod Dreher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Dreher] – La-bas [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Là-bas_(novel)] by J.-K. Huysmans – Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize lecure [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/lecture/] – The Tower of Babel [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+11&version=NKJV] – Canceling [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8] by ContraPoints – We Lived Happily During the War [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/we-lived-happily-during-the-war] by Ilya Kaminsky – Mitchell & Webb’s Lucentio sketch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqLYSws0Rgs] 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 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/]

NB: Oops, I meant 18th century. Also, Michael Haneke is Austrian after all. 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: – Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize lecure [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/lecture/] – Leopards in the Temple" by Franz Kafka (couldn’t find any good links, so here’s the text Mark copy-pasted to me: “Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.“) – Returning the Sword to the Stone [https://fonografeditions.com/catalog/f0no10-mark-leidner-returning-the-sword-to-the-stone-print-book/] by Mark Leidner [https://www.markleidner.com] – Mark’s Substack: Opaque Hourglass [https://markleidner.substack.com] – Recitatif [http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/FedermayerEva/Toni_Morrison_Recitatif.pdf] by Tony Morrison – Funny Games (1997 & 2007) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_Games_(1997_film)] – Hamlet [https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/hamlet/read/] – Julius Caesar [https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/julius-caesar/read/] – Jack Handey [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Handey] – Andy Kaufman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kaufman] – Plato [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato] – The Gettysburg Address [https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.24404500/?st=text] – Amleth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amleth#:~:text=Amleth%20(Old%20Norse%3A%20Amlóði%3B,tragedy%20Hamlet%2C%20Prince%20of%20Denmark.] – The Tower of Babel [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+11&version=NKJV] – The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203&version=KJV] – Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize lecture [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/lecture/] – Chelsey Minnis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsey_Minnis] – Juvenilia by Hera Lindsay Bird [https://store.deepvellum.org/products/juvenilia] – A Field of Telephones by Zach Savich [https://53rdstatepress.org/Savich-A-Field-of-Telephones] – Dogs of War [https://markleidner.substack.com/p/dogs-of-war] by Mark Leidner 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 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/]

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: Pretty Woman [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzii8IuL8lk] (1990) Pretty Woman cut scenes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tox04rGoTkU] Insomnia [https://allpoetry.com/poem/8493531-Insomnia-by-Elizabeth-Bishop] by Elizabeth Bishop Love Poem [https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-12307_LOVE-POEM] by John Forbes A Gift [https://frombooksofpoems.blogspot.com/2007/03/gift-by-don-paterson.html] by Don Paterson 90 North [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57410/90-north] by Randall Jarrell In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57605/in-memory-of-eva-gore-booth-and-con-markievicz] by W. B. Yeats Heorot [https://poems.com/poem/heorot/] by Ryan WIlson James McAuley [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McAuley] Ep 198: Shark Week [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/sh7gk2sjw3cma67-23e9s-b73tn-4yrww-gm6t9-8js6w-tmg24-eetwz-txm9g-y72by-f3zhl-773zf-d6zrp-sw6he-4j2m2-fcrmg-mssat-6yh9l-czlg5-dprf8-dg625-s5db7-bllf2-klpem-bebz4-x467z] Dan Savage [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage] Footloose [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4narQca4Oc] (1984) Secret show notes Bodies [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04F4xlWSFh0] by Drowning Pool New Year’s: A Short Pantoum [https://lastyearsalmanac.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/new-years-a-short-pantoum-greg-williamson/] by Greg Williamson Cold Turkey [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/48510/cold-turkey] by Joshua Mehigan Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn [https://smarthistory.org/ai-weiwei-dropping-a-han-dynasty-urn/] by Ai Weiwei Hills Like White Elephants [https://www.rvclibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/May-Short-Stories.pdf] by Ernest Hemingway Amy Hempel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Hempel] Tired [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150665/tired] by Fenton Johnston Sonnet 130 [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45108/sonnet-130-my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-like-the-sun] Priamel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priamel] Presto Manifesto! [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/69202/presto-manifesto-] by A. E. Stallings In Memoriam A. H. H. [https://poets.org/poem/memoriam-h-h] by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche:_Philosopher,_Psychologist,_Antichrist] by Walter Kaufmann Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44750/sonnet-19-when-i-consider-how-my-light-is-spent] by John Milton Ogden Nash [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash] The Brand New Catastrophe [https://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p/a-brand-new-catastrophe-mike-scalise] by Mike Scalise  Encomium [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encomium] Florida [https://laurengroff.com/book/florida/] by Lauren Groff Travelling through the Dark [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42775/traveling-through-the-dark] by William Stafford After Filing for Divorce [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56514/after-filing-for-divorce] by Chelsea Rathburn  The Soft Black Stars [https://32poems.com/poem/matthew-buckley-smith/] by Matthew Buckley Smith Aubade [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6e2f07] by Philip Larkin Omnibus Review of Terrance Hayes, Charles Martin, Natasha Trethewey [https://www.literarymatters.org/11-3-omnibus-review-of-terrance-hayes-charles-martin-natasha-trethewey/] by Matthew Buckley Smith 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 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/]