Ep 180: AMA 2025, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry by Harold Bloom
Secret show:
Cormac McCarthy's Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century by Vincenzo Barney
Ep 80: The Marathon, ft. Skyzoo
Ep 23: Rhymes Without Beats, ft. James Nguyen
Tenebrae by Geoffrey Hill
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Red Meat Republic by Joshua Specht
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Ep 178: All the Supposedly Wonderful Poetry, ft. Jonathan Farmer
Centuries by Joel Brouwer
Matthew’s movie list:
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
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
