Ep 45: My Amanda Gorman Thing, ft. Alexis Sears
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Out of Order by Alexis Sears
– Field Knowledge by Morri Creech
– Big-Eyed Afraid by Erica Dawson
– My cool wife is going to AWP
– Johns Hopkins people: Greg Williamson, Richie Hofmann, David Yezzi, Mary Jo Salter, Andrew Motion, James Arthur
– Introduction to Fiction and Poetry
– André 3000’s verse on the new Kanye West record
– Louder than a Bomb (the poetry festival)
– Louder than a Bomb (the documentary)
– The slam poetry scene from 22 Jump Street
– Peter Kahn’s intro to the Respect the Mic excerpts in Poetry Magazine
– Louder than a Bomb student poets: Nate Marshall, Adam Gottlieb, Lamar Jorden, Nova Venerable
– Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
– The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
– Other bad inaugural poems by Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco
– The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht
– My conversation about Christians etc. with Kathleen Jones
– Elizabeth Bishop on how embarrassing it is to be a poet
– He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) by the Crystals
– The West Chester Poetry Conference
– Alexis and I are giving a reading together in April at Johns Hopkins
– The Stranger World by Ryan Wilson
– Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
– Golden Years by Alexis Sears
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
