Ep 161: Handbook for the Recently Deceased Poet
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NB1: It turns out there is in fact some record of Heraclitus the poet, outside of Callimachus’ poem, but not much.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Material Witness: Remembering an Abiding Debt to Timothy Murphy by Maryann Corbett
– Wildfire Season by Maryann Corbett
– Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
– Breakfast at Brennan’s by Timothy Murphy
– Prison Chaplain by Timothy Murphy
– The Failure by Timothy Murphy
– The Dead Poet by Timothy Murphy
– The Drowned Immortal by Timothy Murphy
– The Stars Shine Without Me by Matt Cardin
– The Dowser’s Ear by Wilmer Mills (the poem, I think, that Stallings read in memory of Mills at the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference)
– Heraclitus by William Johnson Cory
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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
