Poetry Says Alice Allan

There’s something wrong with your priest. The Odes of Horace translated by David Ferry Our Horace episode on SLEERICKETS Getting Horace Across by J. Kates Horace iv.i ‘To Venus’ The Essential Horace translated by Burton Raffel Late Night Ode by J. D. McClatchy The Balcony by David Brooks Fully Booked The Penguin Book of Chinese … Continue reading "Ep 271. Love again"

The poetry bus looks fun, but… Show notes Recent SLEERICKETS: Paging Dr. Platzmouth & Against Literary Citizenship That Peculiar Affirmative by Jonathan Farmer The Fish and At The Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop Finding a Long Gray Hair by Jane Kenyon Alan Shapiro Jonathan’s review of Colm Tóibín’s book On Elizabeth Bishop Departing Afghanistan by William … Continue reading "Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don’t think I love poetry.”"

On not being up to the task. An ode to the end of poetry by Stan Grant Erik Jensen Stan Grant leaves Q+A Tracy K. Smith The Slowdown K & I track Nam Le’s poem Abbotsford I 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le A Poet’s Reckoning with What Poetry Can Do … Continue reading "Ep 269. Another ending"

O’Hara, Berrigan, Forbes, and other animals. Show notes The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes: Prick’d by Charm by Duncan Hose Ted Berrigan Ron Padgett Jorge Luis Borges Walt Whitman Berrigan’s 10 things I do every day To the bobbydazzlers by John Forbes Berrigan’s Sonnets The Personal … Continue reading "Ep 268. Duncan Hose: The dead talk"

“Sentimentality-congratulating-itself-on-not-being-caught…” Show notes Chocolate nemesis The Tour by pi o Getting Shirty by Lucy Van Geoff Page reviews The Tour The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Julia Cameron’s notes on crazymakers Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer Anne Sexton Read Anne Sexton’s Response to Her Worst-Ever Review by Emily Temple James Dickey The Black … Continue reading "Ep 267. Writing for revenge"

Cats don’t know things, but you do! Show notes Television by Kate Middleton Isabella G. Mead Venus Without Furs by Gabrielle Everall Joshua Mehigan What is a poetry magazine for? by Victoria Moul Ep 262. Ann-Marie Priest: Secret Gwen Harwood Business Ep 259. It means what it says David makes Ratbag Poetics Notes on “Camp” by Susan … Continue reading "Ep 266. Poetry camp"