"Musseling" by Jan Schreiber

Text of poem here (Note: this is an older version, and some lines have changed).

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My Ryan Wilson episode

-My Mark Jarman episode

-Ryan's corrections and very gracious explanation

-The Contemporary Poetry Review

-Jan's wonderfully kooky website

-THINK Journal's Critical Path Symposium

-The aquastentialist poem

-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters

-"Le Cimitiere Marin" by Paul Valery

-Ukiyo

-Ask not for whom the bell buoy tolls

-"The Bell Buoy" by Rudyard Kipling

-An etiology of sirens

-Artist vs. Mystic

-"No Man Is An Island" (a sermon excerpt, not a poem) by John Donne

-Aware and Aware

-De Profundis

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