Ep 40: Here's What I Wish You Would Read, ft. Mary Jo Salter
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Zoom Rooms by Mary Jo Salter
– The Norton Anthology of Poetry
– No more letters of recommendation
– The Sewanee Writers’ Conference
– The West Chester Poetry Conference
– James Arthur is a good guy
– What might have been by Carmine Starnino
– Ripostes by Michael Robbins
– Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
– The New Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Helen Gardner
– Hard Line Politics by Austin Allen
– A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
– The Writers’ Almanac by Garrison Keillor
– April in Spain by John Banville
– The Stuffed Owl, ed. Charles Lee and D. B. Wyndham Lewis
– The Surveyors by Mary Jo Salter
– Straight Man by Richard Russo
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith