To My Artist Friends, Part I (feat. SLEERICKETS)

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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Sleerickets -Poetry Says -Matthew Buckley Smith -Alice Allan -Cameron Clark -Primordial -My Robert Bridges episode -Robert Fagles -Shane McCrae -Parallelism -"The Truly Great" by Stephen Spender -"Paradise Lost" by John Milton -Three approaches to poetic composition: Vatic, Cognitive, Exploratory -"Egg and Dart" by Matthew Buckley Smith -On the nature of the gods -"Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" by Eric Voegelin -Amor Fati -Thomas Ligotti -Giacomo Leopardi -"Cold Turkey" by Joshua Mehigan -The irony-rich blood of Australian poetry -Alice's original concluding couplet: "My girls, good girls, too good for marrying/ too good to love a broken-hearted king" -Serious Australians: Murnane, Murray, and (the entirely real) Malley.

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My favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association Art by David Anthony Klug

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