Ep 183: The Icy Élysée, ft. Alan Shapiro, Pt.1
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NB: Alan’s most recent poetry collection is, in fact, By and By, from Waywiser Press
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth by Alan Shapiro
– By and By by Alan Shapiro
– Proceed to Check Out by Alan Shapiro
– An Arrangement by Alan Shapiro
– The Season of Phantasmal Peace by Derek Walcott
– Hooks by C. K. Williams
– Donahue’s Sister by Thom Gunn
– On Convention by Alan Shapiro
– The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
– One Today by Richard Blanco
– Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander
– Axel’s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 by Edmund Wilson
– Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
– This Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
– Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
– Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb by Wallace Stevens
– Waywiser Press (Soon to become Waywiser Books?)
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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
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