Ep 6: There Are Some Things We Just Don’t Talk About
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook
– The virtue of interesting wrongness
– Mentor wasn’t exactly a mentor
– Too much talking, not enough poems!
– The SLEERICKETS logo
– Van Gogh’s “Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette”
– Daniel Alexander Smith: designer, artist, measurably cooler sibling
– Steve Jobs ruined fonts
– Janet Loxley Lewis’ poem “Days”
– Eratosphere exists and is good
– Some well-reasoned dissent re: the teachability of dessert and the artistic value of ASMR, podcasts, and (maybe) porn
– Young people love/tolerate/acknowledge the existence of SLEERICKETS!
– Robert Hayden’s poem “Paul Laurence Dunbar”
– Paul Muldoon and Kevin Young are talented and have at least two other things in common
– The New Yorker Poetry Podcast’s February 17, 2016 edition
– Donald Justice’s poem “There is a gold light in certain old paintings”
– Uncle Vanya
– Louis Malle’s porn-free last movie, Vanya on 42nd Street (Don’t be fooled by the trailer on YouTube, which badly misrepresents the tone, pacing, and atmosphere of the movie!)
– What the fuck “sleerickets” means
– Anthony Hecht’s poem “A Letter”
– Ashley Anna McHugh’s poem “The Unquarried Blue of Those Depths Is All But Blinding”
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
