Ep 35: Bad Things
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– My recent appearance on Poetry Says
– My class at the Redbud Writing Project
– Good writer Jonathan Farmer
– The 2021 Chess World Championship
– Yeats’ poem Adam’s Curse
– Good writer Shane McCrae
– Frederick Seidel’s poem Victory Parade
– Austin Allen’s essay Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse
– Lyn Hejinian, Jorie Graham, Ishion Hutchinson, Martin Corless-Smith
– Anthony Hecht’s poem A Letter
– Oh, no, more Bad Art Friend
– The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man
– Nietzsche’s whole God Is Dead thing
– Karl Jasper’s book Man in the Modern Age
– Philosopher and Nazi Martin Heidegger
– Auden’s poem In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
