Ep 175: What Voice Is, ft. Jonathan Farmer, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
Mary Oliver
Pity the Beautiful by Dana Gioia
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice by Tony Hoagland
Derek Walcott
Frances Leviston
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Robert Pinsky
The Dream Songs by John Berryman
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
Robert Lowell
As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nobody Speak by DJ Shadow
32 Poems
Elegy for Estrogen by V. Penelope Pelizzon
Sonnet 18
The Face by Randall Jarrell
My Picture Left in Scotland by Ben Jonson
Carl Dennis
Promises of Gold by José Olivarez
poem where no one is deported by José Olivarez
Matthew Arnold
Frequently mentioned names:
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
