Ep 5: Ars Foetica
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Poems about semen
– The book contest–industrial complex
– A competing theory of “y’all”
– foetry.com
– There’s no money in poetry
– It’s hard to publish a first (or second, or third) book of poetry
– PoBiz!
– The Jorie Graham Rule
– Alan Cordle, et al.
– The Yale Younger Poets Prize, The Contemporary Poetry Series, and the rest
– Auden and Ashbery
– A little bit of accounting for taste
– The CLMP Contest Code of Ethics
– “Rappers React to Rich Brian ft. Ghostface Killah, Desiigner, Tory Lanez & More”
– Aristotle on lion drawings
– The priamel
– Sappho’s Fragment 16, translated by Sherod Santos as “To Anactoria”
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
