SLEERICKETS

Matthew Buckley Smith
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Welcome to SLEERICKETS, a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.

  1. Maybe This Time, ft. Alan Shapiro

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    Maybe This Time, ft. Alan Shapiro

    SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW! Leave the show a rating here! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review! – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now! – Diver by Alan Shapiro – Last Act by Alan Shapiro – King Lear – Macbeth – Hamlet – The Oxen by Thomas Hardy – Church Going by Philip Larkin – High Windows by Philip Larkin – Steven Wright – Glory Hunger by Alan Shapiro – Grasshopper by Alan Shapiro – Where Rainbows Go to Die by The SteelDrivers Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan – Shane McCrae – A. E. Stallings – Ryan Wilson – Morri Creech – Austin Allen –Jonathan Farmer – Zara Raab – Amit Majmudar – Ethan McGuire – Coleman Glenn – Chris Childers – Alexis Sears – JP Gritton – Alex Pepple – Ernie Hilbert – Joanna Pearson – MattWall – Steve Knepper – Helena Feder – David Yezzi – Victoria Moul – Katie Dozier & Tim Green – George David Clark – Tristram Fane Saunders – Philip Metres – Helena Feder – Nida Sophasarun Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Alice: In Future Posts Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

    1 tim 27 min
  2. Listener Crit #12

    12 juni

    Listener Crit #12

    SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW! Leave the show a rating here! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review! – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now! – Steve Knepper's Thomist Poets reading In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth BishopJiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) A Letter by Anthony Hecht Couples Therapy Clipse Lament by Thom GunnSecret Show notes We Hogs Need This, Pt. 2 On Being Butthurt by Elif Batuman Joan Didion Matthew's appearance on the Rattlecast August Wilson Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan – Shane McCrae – A. E. Stallings – Ryan Wilson – Morri Creech – Austin Allen – Jonathan Farmer – Zara Raab – Amit Majmudar – Ethan McGuire – Coleman Glenn – Chris Childers – Alexis Sears – JP Gritton – Alex Pepple – Ernie Hilbert – Joanna Pearson – MattWall – Steve Knepper – Helena Feder – David Yezzi – Victoria Moul – Katie Dozier & Tim Green – George David Clark – Tristram Fane Saunders – Philip Metres – Helena Feder – Nida Sophasarun Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Alice: In Future Posts Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

    1 tim 6 min
  3. We Hogs Need This, Pt. 1

    5 juni

    We Hogs Need This, Pt. 1

    SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW! Leave the show a rating here! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review! – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now! – Join the Zoom conversation I’m having with Jimmy Pappas this Monday, June 8, at 7:00 p.m. US Eastern: Poems Against Hope Zina Gomez-Liss Can Art Teach? by David S. Wallace Michel de Montaigne The Pitt Suits Anthony Lane J. M. Coetzee A Few Words OnImproving Your Life Through the Great Books by Ethan McGuireSecret show notes Ep 246: A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper Why Don't People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do They Like? by Daniel Cowper Night by Elie Wiesel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois Plato's Republic Giovanni’s Room and Notes of aNative Son by James Baldwin Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan – Shane McCrae – A. E. Stallings – Ryan Wilson – Morri Creech – Austin Allen – Jonathan Farmer – Zara Raab – Amit Majmudar – Ethan McGuire – Coleman Glenn – Chris Childers – Alexis Sears – JP Gritton – Alex Pepple – Ernie Hilbert – Joanna Pearson – MattWall – Steve Knepper – Helena Feder – David Yezzi – Victoria Moul – Katie Dozier & Tim Green – George David Clark – Tristram Fane Saunders – Philip Metres – Helena Feder – Nida Sophasarun Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Alice: In Future Posts Brian: brianplatzer [at] gmail [dot] com Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

  4. The Montreal Fiasco, ft. Ernest Hilbert, Pt. 1

    29 maj

    The Montreal Fiasco, ft. Ernest Hilbert, Pt. 1

    SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW! Leave the show a rating here! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good! Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review! – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now! Ep 122: The Sore Thumb Crisis, ft. Ernie Hilbert Poetry readings I have known by Ernie Hilbert The Red Tower by Thomas Ligotti This Lime-tree Bower my Prison by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Easton Press Franklin Library Fallingwater The Henry Heckelbeck Collection by Wanda Coven Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Caligulan by Ernie Hilbert ContraPoints: Cringe Toynbee tiles Poetry for Dummies Savage Night at the Opera by Destroyer Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan – Shane McCrae – A. E. Stallings – Ryan Wilson – Morri Creech – Austin Allen – Jonathan Farmer – Zara Raab – Amit Majmudar – Ethan McGuire – Coleman Glenn – Chris Childers – Alexis Sears – JP Gritton – Alex Pepple – Ernie Hilbert – Joanna Pearson – MattWall – Steve Knepper – Helena Feder – David Yezzi – Victoria Moul – Katie Dozier & Tim Green – George David Clark – Tristram Fane Saunders – Philip Metres – Helena Feder – Nida Sophasarun Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Alice: In Future Posts Brian: @BPlatzer Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

  5. Listener Crit #11

    23 maj

    Listener Crit #11

    NB: Apologies to all the people to whom I owe emails! Solo with the girls and trying to meet some deadlines, so I’ve been a zombie. I promise I’ll write you soon! SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW! Leave the show a rating here! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review! – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now! – The Frost Farm Prize results – Why Don’t People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do People Like? by Daniel Cowper – Ep 246: The Case for Didactic Poetry Part 1 & Part 2 – L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas by John Milton – Odysseus’ Last Return to Ithaca by Pedro Poitevin – XXIV by Philip Larkin – Dune by Frank Herbert – Dune (2021) Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan – Shane McCrae – A. E. Stallings – Ryan Wilson – Morri Creech – Austin Allen – Jonathan Farmer – Zara Raab – Amit Majmudar – Ethan McGuire – Coleman Glenn – Chris Childers – Alexis Sears – JP Gritton – Alex Pepple – Ernie Hilbert – Joanna Pearson – MattWall – Steve Knepper – Helena Feder – David Yezzi – Victoria Moul – Katie Dozier & Tim Green – George David Clark – Tristram Fane Saunders – Philip Metres – Helena Feder – Nida Sophasarun Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed Alice: In Future Posts Brian: @BPlatzer Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

    55 min
  6. A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper, Pt. 1

    16 maj

    A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper, Pt. 1

    NB: Another poem (one of Jonathan’s favorites) about having an orange and not wanting to kill yourself. SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW! Leave the show a rating here! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review! – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now! – Why Don’t People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do People Like? by Daniel Cowper – Kingdom of the Clock by Daniel Cowper – A Review of The Soft Black Stars by Sunil Iyengar – On Not Knowing How to Start by Sunil Iyengar – What He Really Wanted by Zina Gomez-Liss – If by Rudyard Kipling – Ep 245: The Tuna Incident, ft. Nida Sophasarun – Giving the Devil His Due by Elijah Perseus Blumov – September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden – On the Inner Nature of Art by Arthur Schopenhauer – On the origin of poetry by Friedrich Nietzsche Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan – Shane McCrae – A. E. Stallings – Ryan Wilson – Morri Creech – Austin Allen – Jonathan Farmer – Zara Raab – Amit Majmudar – Ethan McGuire – Coleman Glenn – Chris Childers – Alexis Sears – JP Gritton – Alex Pepple – Ernie Hilbert – Joanna Pearson – MattWall – Steve Knepper – Helena Feder – David Yezzi – Victoria Moul – Katie Dozier & Tim Green – George David Clark – Tristram Fane Saunders – Philip Metres – Helena Feder – Nida Sophasarun Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed Alice: In Future Posts Brian: @BPlatzer Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

    1 tim 27 min
  7. The Tuna Incident, ft. Nida Sophasarun

    9 maj

    The Tuna Incident, ft. Nida Sophasarun

    SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW! Leave the show a rating here! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review! – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now! Novice by Nida Sophasarun An Incomplete Mentorship by Rachel Jamison Webster Ellen Bryant Voigt Advice from an Unknown Poet Ep 05. Bad Advice Ep 244: Possible Horrible Truth, Pt. 1 Nida's poem Violent Femmes Corniche by Les MurraySecret show notesDead Poets Society (1989) Paterson (2016) A Quiet Passion (2016) Yasujiro Ozu Last Chance U (2016) Friday Night Lights I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Reality Bites (1994) Matthew's essay Where the Money Is The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Film Quarterly Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan – Shane McCrae – A. E. Stallings – Ryan Wilson – Morri Creech – Austin Allen – Jonathan Farmer – Zara Raab – Amit Majmudar – Ethan McGuire – Coleman Glenn – Chris Childers – Alexis Sears – JP Gritton – Alex Pepple – Ernie Hilbert – Joanna Pearson – Matt Wall – Steve Knepper – Helena Feder – David Yezzi – Victoria Moul – Katie Dozier & Tim Green – George David Clark – Tristram Fane Saunders – Philip Metres – Helena Feder – Nida Sophasarun Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed Alice: In Future Posts Brian: @BPlatzer Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

    1 tim 11 min
  8. Possible Horrible Truth, Pt. 1

    3 maj

    Possible Horrible Truth, Pt. 1

    NB: Sideways was actually co-written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne. SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. Make a one-time donation (not tax-deductible) For more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW! Leave the show a rating here! SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube! For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 32 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode: – Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so good!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star review! – My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now! – Poems Beautiful and Useful, ed. Victoria Moul – To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace – Greater Metropolitan Shatador, ft. Victoria Moul – The Matrix (1999) – Jenny, the Halloween Spy by Lillie Patterson – The Statue of Responsibility (the one about Man’s Search for Meaning) – The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker – Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham – The Optimists by Brian Platzer – The Mattering Instinct by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein – The Last Messiah by Peter Zapffe – The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti – Inferno I, 32 by Jorge Luis Borges – Sideways (2004) – The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche – Big in Romania, ft. Versecraft (the one where Elijah talks with Alice about The Denial of Death) – St. Judas by James Wright – The Mountain Pass, ft. Philip Metres, Part 1 & Part 2 – Tichborne’s Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne – Happy were he could finish forth his fate by Robert Devereaux – Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope – Ars Poetica by Horace – Epode ii by Horace – The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden – Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban Frequently mentioned names: – Joshua Mehigan – Shane McCrae – A. E. Stallings – Ryan Wilson – Morri Creech – Austin Allen – Jonathan Farmer – Zara Raab – Amit Majmudar – Ethan McGuire – Coleman Glenn – Chris Childers – Alexis Sears – JP Gritton – Alex Pepple – Ernie Hilbert – Joanna Pearson – Matt Wall – Steve Knepper – Helena Feder – David Yezzi – Victoria Moul – Katie Dozier & Tim Green – George David Clark – Tristram Fane Saunders – Philip Metres – Helena Feder – Nida Sophasarun Other Ratbag Poetry Pods: Poetry Says by Alice Allan I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall Versecraft by Elijah Perseus Blumov Advice from an Unknown Poet by Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed Alice: In Future Posts Brian: @BPlatzer Cameron: Minor Tiresias Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Music by ETRNL Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

    1 tim 33 min
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Welcome to SLEERICKETS, a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.

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    Matthew Buckley Smith
  • Aktiva år
    2021 - 2026
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