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

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Topics mentioned in this episode include:

-My David Yezzi episode -Ryan Wilson -Three kinds of formal poets: puzzle solvers, natural rhymers, aesthetes -Paul Celan -Literary Matters -John Berryman's "Dream Songs" -Wait Until Dark -Object Permanence (here's Matthew's poem on the subject!) -"The Uncanny" by Sigmund Freud -The gnosticism of disability -The spiritual mimesis of architecture -Abbot Suger -The aesthetics of tourism -New York's Art Deco skyscrapers -Frank Lloyd Wright -The "Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body" topos (see Marvell's example) -Rainer Maria Rilke -The recently deceased Louise Gluck -The anti-Romantic thesis behind the Romantic anti-hero -"Paradise Lost" by John Milton -"Brand" and "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen -My turophilia and background as a fromagier -Making mozzarella with Dave in Colorado -An enthusiastic endorsement of raw milk -Illegal cheese! -The world of fragrances and parfumerie -The amber accord -Not that Richard Burton, this one -An invitation to psychedelic druidcraft

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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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