Ep 181: Against Sticks-&-Stones-ism
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NB: Brian informs me that Yarvin’s interviewer was actually David Marchese, not Michael Barbaro, which might explain why I found him so much less insufferable than usual! Also, male mainstream liberal podcasters sure do all have the same voice, don’t they?
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Daily’s interview with Curtis Yarvin
– Yarvin’s embarrassing thoughts on the Passage Prize
– Yarvin’s less less embarrassing thoughts on a Poetry Daily poem
– Alice’s two poems in New Verse Review
– Violent Femmes by Nida Sophasarun
– My short essay on the 32 Poems website
– My poem Melancholia in Ploughshares (just ask if you want to read it)
– Poetry Says Ep 186. Sensitive New Right Guy
– Poetry Says Ep 294. The American Ecstatic
– Sex Elegy by Terence Winch
– Nik Prassas’ transcriptions of Geoffrey Hill’s lectures
– Ep 49: Handsome People Can Be Sad, ft. David Kern
– What is art? by Leo Tolstoy
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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
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