"The Heirloom" by Michael Donaghy

Text of poem here.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Midlife by Matthew Buckley Smith

-The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse by Christopher Childers

-Khosrow and Shirin by Dick Davis

-In Ghostlight by Ryan Wilson

-A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By The Eye by Penelope Pelizzon

-The Nature of Things Fragile by Peter Vertacnik

-My poem Tlaloc on E-Verse Radio

-SLEERICKETS and Versecraft do tragedy, Part I and Part II

-Thank you for your sharp ears, Dan Brown!

-The Metaphysical vogue

-Starting with the man in the mirror

-Letting the sunshine in

-The (grindcore noises) DUMPSTER OF DEATH

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