SLEERICKETS

Ep 225: Listener Crit #8

NB: My confusing mention of Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death mistakenly gave Alice the impression that the book is by Freud. Instead it’s just heavily founded in the Freudian vision of human experience. Also, “The Deeper in” is totally not an a cappella song. Also, Matthew was a tax collector, not a moneylender. Other than those, we made no errors whatsoever! 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: Dinosaurs in the Hood [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57585/dinosaurs-in-the-hood] by Danez Smith The Ghost of Foghorn Leghorn Speaks of Unrequited Love [https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ghost-of-foghorn-leghorn-speaks-of-unrequited-love] by Paul Guest James Merrill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Merrill] Greg Williamson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Williamson_(poet)] Geoffrey Hill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hill] Capital Improvements: The Initial-Caps Wars [https://www.literarymatters.org/16-1-capital-improvements/] by Maryann Corbett The Fall of Rome [https://poets.org/poem/fall-rome] by W. H. Auden Donald Duck’s Lament [https://thediagram.com/3_5/guest.html] by Paul Guest The Roud Folk Song Index [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roud_Folk_Song_Index] Roud Folk Song 4933 Conversation with Death [https://balladindex.org/Ballads/R663.html] The Pardoner’s Tale [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pardoner%27s_Tale] Everyman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman_(15th-century_play)] The Unquiet Grave [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unquiet_Grave] The Daemon Lover [https://literaryfictions.com/fiction-1/the-daemon-lover-by-shirley-jackson/] by Shirley Jackson Death, an Ode [https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-12303_DEATH-AN-ODE] by John Forbes Matthew's poem Ankou [https://thenewstylus.substack.com/p/5af86cc0-2853-481b-9b36-069cce23bbc7] recently republished in The New Stylus Which is the True One? [https://www.100thmonkeypress.com/biblio/acrowley/downloads/translations/which_is/which_is.pdf] by Charles Baudelaire  The Denial of Death [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death] by Sigmund Freud William James [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James]  Doctor Faustus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Faustus_(play)] by Christopher Marlowe Alcestis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcestis] Horace i.iv [https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceOdesBkI.php#anchor_Toc39402010] and iv.vii [https://www.logicmuseum.com/latin/horace_ode_4_7.htm] The Seventh Seal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal] Secret Show Ep 108. How Are We Happy? [https://sleerickets.substack.com/p/ep-108-how-are-we-happy] (on Paradise Lost) The Barron Field Experience [https://barronfieldexperience.substack.com/] Secret Show notes Aubade [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6e2f07] by Philip Larkin So, We’ll Go No More a Roving [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving] by Lord Byron Untamed Daughter [https://www.amjuster.net/blog/2015/9/15/untamed-daughter] by A.M. Juster Ozymandias [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias] by Percy Bysshe Shelley Nothing Endures [https://joyeuxnoelle.tumblr.com/post/4806980086/nothing-endures-by-countee-cullen] by Countee Culleen Alice in the Looking Glass [https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/alice-in-the-looking-glass-poem-by-a-e-stallings/] by A.E. Stallings Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening] by Robert Frost The Deeper In [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ52COM60JI] by The Drive By Truckers This living hand, now warm and capable [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50375/this-living-hand-now-warm-and-capable] by John Keats Twelfth Night [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night] The Raindrop Prelude [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2d2spnXyLA] by Chopin This is America [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY] by Childish Gambino Dance Music [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_eVszvkpgQ] by The Mountain Goats Andrea del Sarto [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43745/andrea-del-sarto] by Robert Browning Banksy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy] Pieta [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3%A0_(Michelangelo)] The Calling of St Matthew [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calling_of_Saint_Matthew] by Caravaggio T.O. Brandon [https://tobrandon.com/] 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/] – 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] 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] 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 224: Broadway Omnibus

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: – Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown] – In Future Posts [https://aliceallan.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips] – Minor Tiresias [https://substack.com/@min0rtiresias] – & Juliet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%26_Juliet] by Max Martin and David West Read – Chicago [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%26_Juliet] by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Bob Fosse – Six [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_(musical)] by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss – Beetlejuice the Musical [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice_(musical)] by Eddie Perfect – Little Bear Ridge Road [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bear_Ridge_Road] by Samuel D. Hunter – Steppenwolf Theatre Company [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_Theatre_Company] – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf%3F] by Edward Albee – Horace & Pete [https://louisck.com/pages/horace-and-pete?srsltid=AfmBOor65p49Ees9qHE-_cgjqbzLS0AxVbsVOAXl2COBL1Hsipyx6cAg] 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/] – 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] 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] 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 223: Dowsing Rods & Decoder Rings

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: – Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown] – Ep 222: Poetry Voice Classic, ft. Jonathan Farmer [/sleerickets/f27amak4rbj4esx-d5797-rxn52-7bg5j-xft4b-g72lt-78wx6-26ec3-jnxhh-f9tgj-8mllm-56554-hdcsy-hremz-kwj5p-dfrnl-7ryny-2pc44-yte8t-k65rd] & Ep 172: Five Blade Mode, ft. Jonathan Farmer [https://sleerickets.substack.com/p/five-blade-mode-ft-jonathan-farmer] – Graves [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42608/graves-56d22137612a6] by Hayden Carruth – How to Read the Odyssey by Ryan Wilson – The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fitzgerald [https://ia902906.us.archive.org/10/items/hmrio/The%20Odyssey%20by%20Homer%20-%20translated%20by%20Robert%20Fitzgerald.pdf] – The Aeneid, trans. Robert Fitzgerald [https://archive.org/details/aeneid0000virg_q0z5/page/n7/mode/2up] – Seth Bernardete [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Benardete] – Failed Essay on Privilege [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/failed-essay-on-privilege] by Elisa Gonzalez – Next Day [https://poets.org/poem/next-day] by Randall Jarrell – A Sunset of the City [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43318/a-sunset-of-the-city] by Gwendolyn Brooks – Secret Show Ep 168: A Real Chill [https://sleerickets.substack.com/p/a-real-chill] 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/] – 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] 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] 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 222: Poetry Voice Classic, ft. Jonathan Farmer

NB: The first time I refer to Gonzalez, I say the wrong last name, because I am dumb. Sorry, Eliza! Sorry, also, for everything else. 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: – Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown] Louise Gluck [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Gl%C3%BCck] Eliza Gonzalez [https://www.elisamariegonzalez.com] Louise Gluck's Nobel lecture [https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/gluck/lecture/] Lionel Shriver [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Shriver] Ep 207: Wild Ernestness [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/f27amak4rbj4esx-d5797-rxn52-7bg5j-xft4b] on Ernest Hemingway Against Remembrance: On Louise Gluck [https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10/18/against-remembrance-on-louise-gluck/] by Eliza Gonzalez Education of the Poet [https://khnebulishvili.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/education-of-the-poet-louise-gl%C3%BCck] by Louise Gluck Poetry Says Ep. 294 The American Ecstatic [https://poetrysays.com/ep-294-the-american-ecstatic/] Ep 166: Three Bird Mafia [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/pe8nshntt6xxfex-zfjcw-ppapj-976xb-4ajcg-ssjbt-yzmdc-ktjcx-gjcfl-89e9e-33pyy-yby8c-5e68z-9kh7w-egrye-tyblf-9fyke-jydn9-6b26n-cmpyj-jf4jm] on the Order of the Third Bird The Uneasy Friendship of Poets [https://thewalrus.ca/the-uneasy-friendship-of-poets/] by Matthew Buckley Smith Robert Macfarlane's blurb for Jorie Graham [https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/to-the-last-be-human-by-jorie-graham/] Secret show notes Song in the Grass [https://giramondopublishing.com/books/kate-fagan-song-in-the-grass/] by Kate Fagan praise song [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56473/praise-song-56d239012cbcd] by Nate Marshall Praise Song for the Day [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52141/praise-song-for-the-day] by Elizabeth Alexander Christian Wiman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wiman] The Defense of Poesy [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69375/the-defence-of-poesy] by Sir Philip Sidney Ripostes [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70023/ripostes] by Michael Robbins  The Optimist [https://www.joshuamehigan.info/the-optimist-1] by Joshua Mehigan  I want the ketchup fights [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP2Vg4edM-0] Ep 14: M*****f****r of the Arts [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/sleerickets-ep-2-poem-cures-covid-ym6bd-ce6za-tpdyw-t2s89-ndhzz-h99sh-5a5tk-rsbb3-xtfpe-k68ml-b7cwx-twdp6-c76tx-7l4x4] on what an MFA in poetry gets you HEAT [https://giramondopublishing.com/heat/] Ep 48: Crying Emoji, Fire Emoji, ft. Amit Majmudar [https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/sleerickets/s294r9c83mhy2z4-asz5n-gmtb9-3c43s-282p8-caxhg-ngc5b-h8459-zbzl9-9sdry-e38jr-lrbz3-65gpc-prynk-4pkr2-c3sz6-geygp-kxzb5-5mgt4-x3c8f-d7tgt-axm96-k6tw5-ztpee-mfkhj-zselh-m3m8b-wadnx-l52z4-h34h6-nkmk2] The New American Poetry 1945-1960 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_American_Poetry_1945%E2%80%931960] edited by Donald Allen New Ohio Review's cover artwork [https://newohioreview.org/past-issues/] The Cows on Killing Day [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48398/the-cows-on-killing-day] by Les Murray Quadrant [https://quadrant.org.au/] 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/] – 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] 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] 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 221: ALSCW 2025

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: – Pre-order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-platzer/the-optimists/9780316576956/?lens=little-brown] – The new issue of the Birmingham Poetry Review (the review of Midlife is in there, it’s just annoyingly not listed online) – Euphoric Recall [https://aliceallan.substack.com/p/euphoric-recall] at In Future Posts by Alice Allan – The ALSCW conference [https://alscw.org/events/annual-conference/] – Rachel Hadas [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Hadas] – Dick Davis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Davis_(translator)] – Li Po Meets Oulipo [https://www.belladonnaseries.org/chaplets/p/177-michael-leong-li-po-meets-oulipo] by Michael Leong [https://poets.org/poet/michael-leong] – How to Think like a Poet [https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/store/p97/How_to_Think_Like_a_Poet%2C_by_Ryan_Wilson.html] by Ryan Wilson – Literary Matters [https://www.literarymatters.org] – Poetry Says: Dorothy Porter’s Aeneas Part 1 [https://poetrysays.com/ep-235-dorothy-porters-aeneas-pt-1/] & Part 2 [https://poetrysays.com/ep-237-dorothy-porters-aeneas-pt-2/] – The AWP [https://awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/AWP-Homepage.aspx] – The MLA [https://www.mla.org] – Wolf Hall (PBS) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Hall_(TV_series)] – Roger Reeves [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Reeves] – Zina Gomez-Liss [https://zinagomezliss.substack.com] – David Mikics [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mikics] – Ruby LaRocca [https://substack.com/@rubylarocca] (the college student, not the slasher actress) – Macbeth (2015) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth_(2015_film)] – Tim Carroll [https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/musician/carroll-tim/] – Clip from the 2012 production of Twelfth Night at the Globe, courtesy of Amanda [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=212527546754297 ] – Henry V (1944) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_(1944_film)] – Henry V (1989) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_(1989_film)] – Twelfth Night (1996) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night_(1996_film)] – Gerhard Richter’s 2007 stained glass window for Cologne Cathedral [https://www.reddit.com/r/DesignPorn/comments/1dmj3h2/stained_glass_window_for_cologne_cathedral/#lightbox] 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/] – 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] 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] 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/]