Ep 2: Poem cures COVID!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The poem vaccine
– Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic
– Sortes Vergilianae
– Poems are spells/Poetry is not magic
– Margarita Engle's essay "The Care and Feeding of Poetry"
– Snail sonnets are fine
– Natural child poetry geniuses
– Insulting tanka masters
– Katherine Dunn's short story "The Resident Poet"
– Kristen Roupenian's short story "Cat Person"
– Millennial jerks vs. Boomer jerks
– Naked poets in a thunderstorm
– Bad sex with bad poets
– The poetry lifestyle
– Randall Jarrell
– Plato's dialogue "Ion"
– Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren's textbook Understanding Poetry
– Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!"
– "What is the author trying to say?" is a stupid question
– Mainstream poetry is free verse poetry
– Archibald MacLeish's poem "Ars Poetica"
– Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poem "Halloween"
– Philip Larkin's poem "An April Sunday"
– Front yard cemeteries
– A few real gods
– End rhymes aren't intrinsically evil
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
