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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good! Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β Diver by Alan Shapiro
β Last Act by Alan Shapiro
β King Lear
β Macbeth
β Hamlet
β The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
β Church Going by Philip Larkin
β High Windows by Philip Larkin
β Steven Wright
β Glory Hunger by Alan Shapiro
β Grasshopper by Alan Shapiro
β Where Rainbows Go to Die by The SteelDrivers
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
βJonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β MattWall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
β Helena Feder
β Nida Sophasarun
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
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For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good! Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β Steve Knepper's Thomist Poets reading
In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)A Letter by Anthony Hecht
Couples Therapy
Clipse
Lament by Thom Gunn
Secret Show notesWe Hogs Need This, Pt. 2
On Being Butthurt by Elif Batuman
Joan Didion
Matthew's appearance on the Rattlecast
August Wilson
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β MattWall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
β Helena Feder
β Nida Sophasarun
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good! Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β Join the Zoom conversation Iβm having with Jimmy Pappas this Monday, June 8, at 7:00 p.m. US Eastern: Poems Against Hope
Zina Gomez-Liss
Can Art Teach? by David S. Wallace
Michel de Montaigne
The Pitt
Suits
Anthony Lane
J. M. Coetzee
A Few Words OnImproving Your Life Through the Great Books by Ethan McGuire
Secret show notesEp 246: A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper
Why Don't People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do They Like? by Daniel Cowper
Night by Elie Wiesel
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Plato's Republic
Giovanniβs Room and Notes of aNative Son by James Baldwin
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β MattWall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
β Helena Feder
β Nida Sophasarun
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
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SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good! Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
Ep 122: The Sore Thumb Crisis, ft. Ernie Hilbert
Poetry readings I have known by Ernie Hilbert
The Red Tower by Thomas Ligotti
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Easton Press
Franklin Library
Fallingwater
The Henry Heckelbeck Collection by Wanda Coven
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Caligulan by Ernie Hilbert
ContraPoints: Cringe
Toynbee tiles
Poetry for Dummies
Savage Night at the Opera by Destroyer
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β MattWall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
β Helena Feder
β Nida Sophasarun
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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NB: Apologies to all the people to whom I owe emails! Solo with the girls and trying to meet some deadlines, so Iβve been a zombie. I promise Iβll write you soon!
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β The Frost Farm Prize results
β Why Donβt People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do People Like? by Daniel Cowper
β Ep 246: The Case for Didactic Poetry Part 1 & Part 2
β LβAllegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas by John Milton
β Odysseusβ Last Return to Ithaca by Pedro Poitevin
β XXIV by Philip Larkin
β Dune by Frank Herbert
β Dune (2021)
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β MattWall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
β Helena Feder
β Nida Sophasarun
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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NB: Another poem (one of Jonathanβs favorites) about having an orange and not wanting to kill yourself.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
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SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β Why Donβt People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do People Like? by Daniel Cowper
β Kingdom of the Clock by Daniel Cowper
β A Review of The Soft Black Stars by Sunil Iyengar
β On Not Knowing How to Start by Sunil Iyengar
β What He Really Wanted by Zina Gomez-Liss
β If by Rudyard Kipling
β Ep 245: The Tuna Incident, ft. Nida Sophasarun
β Giving the Devil His Due by Elijah Perseus Blumov
β September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
β On the Inner Nature of Art by Arthur Schopenhauer
β On the origin of poetry by Friedrich Nietzsche
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β MattWall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
β Helena Feder
β Nida Sophasarun
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
Leave the show a rating here!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
Novice by Nida Sophasarun
An Incomplete Mentorship by Rachel Jamison Webster
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Advice from an Unknown Poet Ep 05. Bad Advice
Ep 244: Possible Horrible Truth, Pt. 1
Nida's poem Violent Femmes
Corniche by Les Murray
Secret show notes
Dead Poets Society (1989)Paterson (2016)
A Quiet Passion (2016)
Yasujiro Ozu
Last Chance U (2016)
Friday Night Lights
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Reality Bites (1994)
Matthew's essay Where the Money Is
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
Film Quarterly
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
β Helena Feder
β Nida Sophasarun
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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NB: Sideways was actually co-written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
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For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β Poems Beautiful and Useful, ed. Victoria Moul
β To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
β Greater Metropolitan Shatador, ft. Victoria Moul
β The Matrix (1999)
β Jenny, the Halloween Spy by Lillie Patterson
β The Statue of Responsibility (the one about Manβs Search for Meaning)
β The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
β Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
β The Razorβs Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
β The Optimists by Brian Platzer
β The Mattering Instinct by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
β The Last Messiah by Peter Zapffe
β The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
β Inferno I, 32 by Jorge Luis Borges
β Sideways (2004)
β The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
β Big in Romania, ft. Versecraft (the one where Elijah talks with Alice about The Denial of Death)
β St. Judas by James Wright
β The Mountain Pass, ft. Philip Metres, Part 1 & Part 2
β Tichborneβs Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne
β Happy were he could finish forth his fate by Robert Devereaux
β Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope
β Ars Poetica by Horace
β Epode ii by Horace
β The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
β Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
β Helena Feder
β Nida Sophasarun
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
Leave the show a rating here!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β On Marriage by Victoria Moul
β Literary Matters 18.2
β Not the Greatest Time to Be a Poet, ft. Horace & Friends, Part 1 & Part 2
β Handbook for the Recently Deceased Poet
β A dolphin for the Dutch; or, is there any verse culture without occasional poems? by Victoria Moul
β Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
β The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky
β Rachel Getting Married (2008)
β Glee (2009β2015)
β Sinners (2025)
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
Leave the show a rating here!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β Iβll be doing the Rattlecast this Monday, April 13, at 8:00 p.m. US Eastern! Check it out!
β Kronos by Joshua Mehigan
β Does it help to be religious? by Victoria Moul
β Horace & Friends by Victoria Moul
β Poems Beautiful and Useful, ed. Victoria Moul
β Poetry, Poetics, Poesia by Tamarah Rockwood
β The Rattlecast went well, I think!
β Church Going by Philip Larkin
β Ep 241: A Serious House
β The Poetβs Vision by Ryan Wilson
β As I Prefer Them Well Cooked Through (from the French of ValΓ©rie Rouzeau) trans. Victoria Moul
β A Deer Comes to Mind by Simon Armitage
β The Birth of the Sonnet (from the French of Nicolas Boileau) trans. Elijah Perseus Blumov
β Ken Gordon
β My chapbookβs hatred-filled Goodreads page
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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NB: Advent wreath, obviously. One probably shouldnβt set fire to an advent calendar.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
Leave the show a rating here!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β Iβll be doing the Rattlecast this Monday, April 13, at 8:00 p.m. US Eastern! Check it out!
β Does it help to be religious? by Victoria Moul
β Along the Road by Winslow Homer
β Sea Legs by Andrew Wyeth
β La toilette de Diane by Antonin Merci
β The Martyrdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria by Mattia Preti
β Rock Bottom by Joan Mitchell
β Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamp by Le Corbusier
β Austin by Ellsworth Kelly
β Churchgoing by Philip Larkin
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
Leave the show a rating here!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!
β Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
Timothee Chalamet's statements on ballet and opera, and on not having children
All Fours by Miranda July
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Night by Elie Wiesel
Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour on Versecraft
Reference Back by Philip Larkin
Donald Justice
Atmosphere in Eight Lines by Maryann Corbett
Down in the Valley by Joshua Mehigan
Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
Poetry Says Ep 242. with Joshua Mehigan
The Sponge by Joshua Mehigan on Versecraft
Secret show notesPoetry Says Ep 219. This is scripture
Blues in Dallas, Old College Try, Going to Georgia, and This Year by The Mountain Goats (also No Children for Timothee)
Thomas Hardy
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Black Books: I Love Books guy
Black Sparrow Press
Faber
Literary Matters
HEAT
New Verse Review
Image Journal
London Review of Books
32 Poems
no more poetry
Everybody wants to waste your time by Drew Gooden
Wildflower and Barley by Hozier
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
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For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Advice from an Unknown Poet
β Berryman by W.S. Merwin
β Proxies by Brian Blanchfield
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
Leave the show a rating here!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!
β Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β A conversation Alice & I had for Poetry London!
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible)
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW!
Leave the show a rating here!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!
β Now give Brianβs book a 5-star review!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β Iβm reading this Saturday, March 14, at 6:00 p.m. at the Mettlesome Theater in Durham, NC
β Brianβs appearance on The Gist
β The Mysterious Case of Gothic Verse Narratives by Brian Brodeur
β Pre-order Sixteen Games of Hide and Seek by Stephen Bass and Steve Teare!
β Sofia Kavlin Castaneda of Unsent Letterbox
β Rosanna Oh
β Sonnet 130
β One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
β Poetry by Joseph Harrison
β Moira Egan
β Joe Osterhaus
β Robert Schreur
β Sunil Iyengar
β The Same City by Terrance Hayes
β Maps by James Baker Hall
β Michael Theune
β Kim Noriega
β Kim Addonizio
β Poetry Says Ep 294. The American Ecstatic
β Dan Kois
β The Martin Chronicles
β Lauren Wethers
β Reclaiming Jane
β Jordan Kisner
β Thresholds
β The Critic and Her Publics
β Michele Moses
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β George David Clark
β Tristram Fane Saunders
β Philip Metres
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, itβs easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!
β My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
β Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
Queen of Chess (2026)Poetry Says Ep 296. Gena Rowlands Poetics
Adam Curtis
Night by Ellie Wiesel
Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia
Marie Kondo
After Apple-Picking and Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Malcolm Gladwell
Tim Ferriss
Julie Steiner
Egg and Dart by Matthew Buckley Smith
Deceptacon by Le Tigre
The touch move rule
The Queenβs Gambit (2020)
Juditβs TED talk
My Best Game Ever: Vishy Anand vs. Judit Polgar
Judit Polgar tricks Magnus Carlsen in a game of blitz in the park
Nigel Short vs. Judit Polgar
Two Catholic sonnets by Julie Steiner
On Noticing How Many Pro-Life Men Are Smokers by Julie Steiner
Julieβs Sapphics thread on Eratosphere
Secret Show notesThe Sparrow by Mary Roia Russell
Dana Gioia
Weldon Kees
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Supernatural Horror and Literature by H.P. Lovecraft
Secret show notes
Meanjin lives!
Tropical Skiing by John Forbes
Limiting Poetryβs Feedback Loop by Steven Searcy
Ep 231: Insidious Tendencies, ft. Steven SearcyA Caveat-Filled Case for Atheism
The Via Negativa of R.S. Thomas on Versecraft
Nick Caveβs Red Hand Files Issue #265
The Siberian unicorn
A Holy Dread by R. A. Villanueva
Bill Hicks: Pro Life
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β Tristram Fane Saunders
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, itβs easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!
β Let me know if youβd like a review copy of my forthcoming chapbook The Soft Black Stars: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
β Vanderpump Rules Season 12
The Great Pottery Throwdown
Selling Sunset
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
Queen of Chess (2026)
how i be revising by Brandon Taylor
Sashay away
Coming down in Ohio by Dave Smith
Ep 234: Midlife Show-and-Tell, ft. Katie Dozier
Contrapoints Tangent: Liminal Spaces
Step wells
Secret show notes
Meanjin lives!
Tropical Skiing by John Forbes
Limiting Poetryβs Feedback Loop by Steven Searcy
Ep 231: Insidious Tendencies, ft. Steven SearcyA Caveat-Filled Case for Atheism
The Via Negativa of R.S. Thomas on Versecraft
Nick Caveβs Red Hand Files Issue #265
The Siberian unicorn
A Holy Dread by R. A. Villanueva
Bill Hicks: Pro Life
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β Tristram Fane Saunders
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, itβs easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Pre-order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!
β Let me know if youβd like a review copy of my forthcoming chapbook The Soft Black Stars: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
β Bad Lieutenant (1992)
β Will Diana
β Romanticon
β Literary Imagination
β Serpent Club
β Rathlin Island by Paul Franz
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β Tristram Fane Saunders
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, itβs easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Pre-order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!
β Let me know if youβd like a review copy of my forthcoming chapbook The Soft Black Stars: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
β All That Glitter by Katie Dozier
β The Poetry Space
β Rattle
β The Rattlecast
β Good Bones by Maggie Smith
β The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Colins
β Limiting Poetryβs Feedback Loop by Steven Searcy
β Ep 231: Insidious Tendencies, ft. Steven Searcy
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β Tristram Fane Saunders
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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NB: Oops, I forgot about 2.5, which is the extremely brief wedding scene, which includes both R & J but which is also only barely a scene and which thus is very easy to forget.
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here
For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!
Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, itβs easier). Thanks!
Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!
SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!
For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
β Pre-order Brianβs book The Optimists! Itβs so good!
β Let me know if youβd like a review copy of my forthcoming chapbook The Soft Black Stars: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
β Romeo and Juliet
β A Midsummer Nightβs Dream
β Macbeth
β Hamlet
β Twelfth Night
β & Juliet
β Romeo and Juliet (1996)
β Romeo and Juliet (1968)
β Ep 224: Broadway Omnibus
β Grendel by John Gardner
β Micah Mattix
β Noises Off by Michael Frayn
β Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
β Endgame by Samuel Beckett
β Fargo (1996)
β Barton Fink (1991)
Frequently mentioned names:
β Joshua Mehigan
β Shane McCrae
β A. E. Stallings
β Ryan Wilson
β Morri Creech
β Austin Allen
β Jonathan Farmer
β Zara Raab
β Amit Majmudar
β Ethan McGuire
β Coleman Glenn
β Chris Childers
β Alexis Sears
β JP Gritton
β Alex Pepple
β Ernie Hilbert
β Joanna Pearson
β Matt Wall
β Steve Knepper
β Helena Feder
β David Yezzi
β Victoria Moul
β Katie Dozier & Tim Green
β Tristram Fane Saunders
Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: In Future Posts
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: Minor Tiresias
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
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