Ep 201: I Am My Shelf of Books, ft. Brad Leithauser, Pt. 1
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 hereFor 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, it’s 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:– The Old Current by Brad Leithauser– Rhyme’s Rooms by Brad Leithauser– Forty-Five Years On by Brad Leithauser– Anthony Hecht– A. E. Housman– Charlotte Mew– Marianne Moore– Katsushika Hokusai– John Crowe Ransom– Robert Frost– John Milton– Iron John: A Book about Men by Robert Bly– Elizabeth Bishop– Chidiock Tichborne– Richard KenneyFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Chris Childers– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: In Future PostsBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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Ep 200: The Neck Tattoo
SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Courtesy of Shane: “For John Berryman” does in fact appear in Lowell’s Collected, on page 737.My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or hereFor 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, it’s 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:– The Secret History by Donna Tartt– The Poet Eaters by Alice Allan & James Jiang– Better: On the Delusions of Writing Advice by Alice Allan– For John Berryman by Robert Lowell– Though I am young, and cannot tell by Ben Jonson– A Taxonomy of Conversational FormsFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Chris Childers– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: In Future PostsBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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Ep 199: Only Bad Poems, ft. moonandmouth
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 hereFor 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, it’s 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:– moonandmouth, on Instagram, on X– Only Bad Poems Go Viral– Cataclysm Moves Me I Regret to Say Frequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Chris Childers– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: In FutureBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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Ep 198: Shark Week, Pt. 1
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 hereFor 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, it’s 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:A for Alone by Curtis SittenfeldWednesday’s Child by Yiyun LiOur episode on White Noise by Emma Cline and The Assistant (2019)Aziz AnsariCat Person by Kristen RoupenianJunot DíazThe mounting, undeniable Me Too backlash by Constance GradySexual assault allegations seem to be a badge of honor in Trump’s America. Was #MeToo an epic failure? by Carter ShermanOn Heteropessimism by Asa SeresinThe First Stone by Helen GarnerThe Women’s Room by Marylin FrenchThe Ghost in the Martini by Anthony HechtWas Casual Sex Always This Bad? by Emily LeibertMen Going Their Own WayThe 4B movementSecret show notesThe Infinite Pussy Glitch: The Data Behind Dating as an Eligible Man in NYC by Lana LiBacklash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan FaludiAdriana SmithChampagne SharksDan SavageThe Wife of Bath's TaleDisobedience (2017)Frequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Chris Childers– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: In FutureBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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Ep 197: Insulting Everybody’s Dad, Pt. 1
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 hereFor 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, it’s 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:Bob DylanBoyz II MenA Complete Unknown (2024)Timothée ChalametMalcolm Gladwell interviews Paul SimonDavid SimsJohn AshberyVisions of Johanna by Bob DylanJoan BaezA League of Their Own (1992)Pete Seeger The 2025 Super Bowl halftime showDubliners by James JoyceLegs by ZZ Top Megan Moroney profiled in The New Yorker A Bar Song (Tipsy) by ShaboozeyMatthew and Cameron discuss books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Secret ShowChalamet's SAG Awards acceptance speechAn Officer and a Gentleman (1982) Secret show notesJazz Chisholm Jr.So We’ll Go No More a Roving by Lord ByronRichard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson and the Simon & Garfunkel versionTo the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert HerrickJennifer Senior The King (2019)Frequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Chris Childers– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: In FutureBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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