Ep 192: Turn Out Your Pockets

 

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Princess Shikishi

– The Poetry Says ep where Alice talks about her translations of Shikishi

Sabrina Orah Mark

– The Rattle Chapbook contest

– Tim Green & Katy Dozier

Gotham Chess

– Hikaru Nakamura

– Moby Dick by Herman Melville

– AlphaZero

Stockfish

– A. O. Scott’s Poetry Lessons by Jonathan Farmer

– Two Extravagant Teachings by Neil Hertz

– On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt

– The episode on the AI poetry study, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

The episode on AI poetry with Carmine Starnino

– The episode where I talk about luxury beliefs

– Big Ideas, Little Pictures by Jono Hey

– Richard Hamming

– Paul Muldoon

The Symposium by Plato

– Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Aunt Imogen by E. A. Robinson

– Brian Brodeur’s essay on Robinson

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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