Ep 185: Don’t Drown, ft. Naomi Kanakia, Pt. 1

 

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Woman of Letters by Naomi Kanakia

Is literary criticism just a school of sophistry? by Naomi Kanakia

– English class teaches students to be afraid of literature by Naomi Kanakia

Is literature a false God? by Naomi Kanakia

– The new issue of Literary Matters!

– My poem Letter to a Middle-Aged Poet in First Things

– The Versecraft episode where we all traded poems, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

– AWP 2025

– What is art? by Leo Tolstoy

– The Secret Show episode on What is art?, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl

 Naomi’s review of James by Percival Everett in The Metropolitan Review

– Moby Dick by Herman Melville

– Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag

– The Case of the Wolf Man from the History of Infantile Neurosis by Sigmund Freud

– Mary Jo Salter

– The Norton Anthology of Poetry

– The Poem’s Heartbeat by Alfred Corn

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

On Close Reading by John Guillory

Frequently mentioned names:

Joshua Mehigan

Shane McCrae

A. E. Stallings

Ryan Wilson

Morri Creech

Austin Allen

Jonathan Farmer

Zara Raab

Amit Majmudar

Ethan McGuire

Coleman Glenn

Chris Childers

Alexis Sears

JP Gritton

Alex Pepple

Ernie Hilbert

Joanna Pearson

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

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