SLEERICKETS

• Ep 186: A QWERTYUIOP of the Mind

  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, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave 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!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– When I Mean I by Jonathan Farmer– Locating Voice by Christopher Childers– Too Horny for Hexameter: Ovid’s Epic Fail by Christopher Childers– My essay on Joshua Beckman– The Polyvocal Poet by Ryan Wilson– What Voice Is, ft. Jonathan Farmer, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2– Horace i.25– Horace ii.20– The Whirligig of Time by Anthony Hecht– Heart of Autumn by Robert Penn Warren– Western Wind– Whoso List to Hunt by Thomas Wyatt– Ozymandias by Percy Byshe Shelley– Horace iii.2– The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson– The Gettysburg Address by Abraham LincolnFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Matt Wall– 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: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

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• Ep 185: Don’t Drown, ft. Naomi Kanakia, 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, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave 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!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– Woman of Letters by Naomi Kanakia– Is literary criticism just a school of sophistry? by Naomi Kanakia– English class teaches students to be afraid of literature by Naomi Kanakia– Is literature a false God? by Naomi Kanakia– The new issue of Literary Matters!– My poem Letter to a Middle-Aged Poet in First Things– The Versecraft episode where we all traded poems, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2– AWP 2025– What is art? by Leo Tolstoy– The Secret Show episode on What is art?, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2– The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera– Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl– Naomi’s review of James by Percival Everett in The Metropolitan Review– Moby Dick by Herman Melville– Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag– The Case of the Wolf Man from the History of Infantile Neurosis by Sigmund Freud– Mary Jo Salter– The Norton Anthology of Poetry– The Poem’s Heartbeat by Alfred Corn– The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer– On Close Reading by John GuilloryFrequently 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: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

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• Ep 184: Chaos Reigns, Pt. 1

  NB: Sign up for Alexis Sears’s 92NY online poetry class now—deadline Wednesday, Feb 26!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, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave 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!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– Sign up for Alexis Sears’s 92NY online poetry class now—deadline Wednesday, Feb 26!– The Shape that Am I by Patricia Lockwood– COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom by Nelson Blackstock– Dan Deacon– Antichrist (2009)– Immersion (Piss Christ) by Andres Serrano– The Motte-and-Bailey Fallacy– The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James– The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsFrequently 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: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

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• Ep 183: The Icy Élysée, ft. Alan Shapiro, Pt.1

  NB: Alan’s most recent poetry collection is, in fact, By and By, from Waywiser PressSLEERICKETS 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, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave 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!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth by Alan Shapiro– By and By by Alan Shapiro– Proceed to Check Out by Alan Shapiro– An Arrangement by Alan Shapiro– The Season of Phantasmal Peace by Derek Walcott– Hooks by C. K. Williams– Donahue’s Sister by Thom Gunn– Ep 169: Thunder & Rain– On Convention by Alan Shapiro– The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman– One Today by Richard Blanco– Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander– Axel’s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 by Edmund Wilson– Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin– This Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams– Fountain by Marcel Duchamp– Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb by Wallace Stevens– Unbound Edition Press– Peter Campion– Waywiser Press (Soon to become Waywiser Books?)– Joseph Harrison– Dora Malech– Philip Hoy– The Gabbro Head Press– James LongenbachFrequently 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: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

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• Ep 182: Cherchez la femme

  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, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave 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!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– Even My Sex Is Dust (Review of The Penguin Anthology of Spiritual Verse, ed. Kaveh Akbar) by Zara Raab– Ep 177: Alice & Elijah vs. the Abyss, ft. Versecraft Pt. 1 & Pt. 2– Churchgoing by Marilyn Nelson– Church Going by Philip Larkin– Were You There (traditional)– Address to the Atheist by Phyllis Wheatley– On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phyllis Wheatley– Accepting the Disaster by Joshua Mehigan (poem)– The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden– Aubade by Philip Larkin – Why I am now a Christian by Ayaan Hirsi Ali– Why I am not a Christian by Bertrand Russell– Ross Douthat– Jonathan Rauch– Ep 64: The Rabbit Hole, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2– Luxury beliefs are the latest status symbol for rich Americans by Rob Henderson– The Daily’s interview with Curtis Yarvin– Poetry Says Ep 186. Sensitive New Right Guy– Poetry Says Ep 294. The American Ecstatic– Tar River Poetry– What is art? by Leo Tolstoy– The Dark Mountain ManifestoFrequently 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: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

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