Ep 152: Back in Your Head
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The YouTube footage of the big Cleveland reading/conference/shouting match: Pt. 1 & Pt. 2
– My recent appearance on A Mouthful of Air, w/ Mark McGuinness
– The recent episode of Poetry Says ft. Jonathan Farmer
– The recent episode of Poetry Says all about Horace iv.1
– A slew of poems (mentioned, not read!) from my dumb book Midlife
– Sappho 31 (trans. Chris Childers!)
– Archaischer Torso Apollos by Rainer Maria Rilke
– The Unquarried Blue of Those Depths Is All But Blinding by Ashley Anna McHugh
– A Letter by Anthony Hecht
– A se stesso by Giacomo Leopardi
– Antigone by Sophocles, trans. Jean Anouilh
– Translation by Roy Fuller
– Halcyon by Alcman, trans. A. E. Stallings
– Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae by Ernest Dowson
– Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam by Ernest Dowson
– Cold Turkey by Joshua Mehigan
– Back in Your Head by Tegan & Sara
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Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith