SLEERICKETS

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!
– My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
– On Marriage by Victoria Moul
– Literary Matters 18.2
– Not the Greatest Time to Be a Poet, ft. Horace & Friends, Part 1 & Part 2
– Handbook for the Recently Deceased Poet
– A dolphin for the Dutch; or, is there any verse culture without occasional poems? by Victoria Moul
– Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
– The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky
– Rachel Getting Married (2008)
– Glee (2009–2015)
– Sinners (2025)

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 Pearson
– Matt Wall
– Steve Knepper
– Helena Feder
– David Yezzi
– Victoria Moul
– Katie Dozier & Tim Green
– George David Clark
– Tristram Fane Saunders
– 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

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:

– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!
– My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
– I’ll be doing the Rattlecast this Monday, April 13, at 8:00 p.m. US Eastern! Check it out!
– Kronos by Joshua Mehigan
– Does it help to be religious? by Victoria Moul
– Horace & Friends by Victoria Moul
– Poems Beautiful and Useful, ed. Victoria Moul
– The Rattlecast went well, I think!
– Church Going by Philip Larkin
– Ep 241: A Serious House
– The Poet’s Vision by Ryan Wilson
– As I Prefer Them Well Cooked Through (from the French of Valérie Rouzeau) trans. Victoria Moul
– A Deer Comes to Mind by Simon Armitage
– The Birth of the Sonnet (from the French of Nicolas Boileau) trans. Elijah Perseus Blumov
– Ken Gordon
– My chapbook’s hatred-filled Goodreads page

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 Pearson
– Matt Wall
– Steve Knepper
– Helena Feder
– David Yezzi
– Victoria Moul
– Katie Dozier & Tim Green
– George David Clark
– Tristram Fane Saunders
– 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

NB: Advent wreath, obviously. One probably shouldn’t 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:

– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!
– My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!
– I’ll be doing the Rattlecast this Monday, April 13, at 8:00 p.m. US Eastern! Check it out!
– Does it help to be religious? by Victoria Moul
– Along the Road by Winslow Homer
– Sea Legs by Andrew Wyeth
– La toilette de Diane by Antonin Merci
– The Martyrdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria by Mattia Preti
– Rock Bottom by Joan Mitchell
– Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamp by Le Corbusier
– Austin by Ellsworth Kelly
– Churchgoing by Philip Larkin

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 Pearson
– Matt Wall
– Steve Knepper
– Helena Feder
– David Yezzi
– Victoria Moul
– Katie Dozier & Tim Green
– George David Clark
– Tristram Fane Saunders
– 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

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:

– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!
– Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review!
– 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 notes
Poetry 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:
– 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 Pearson
– Matt Wall
– Steve Knepper
– Helena Feder
– David Yezzi
– Victoria Moul
– Katie Dozier & Tim Green
– George David Clark
– Tristram Fane Saunders
– 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

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:

– Advice from an Unknown Poet
– Berryman by W.S. Merwin
– Proxies by Brian Blanchfield

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 Pearson
– Matt Wall
– Steve Knepper
– Helena Feder
– David Yezzi
– Victoria Moul
– Katie Dozier & Tim Green
– George David Clark
– Tristram Fane Saunders
– 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