Ep 9: Thou Shalt Not Jazz June
A lot of digressions in this episode, but I promise there’s a moral. Sort of.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Pantoums vs. pantuns
– The medical fecklessness of poets
– My imperfect book reviews
– Art is bad at teaching lessons
– Hollywood studio movies are all about why you should be an unpaid intern for a Hollywood studio
– Christmas is about presents
– Pedantic English majors
– Horace’s Ars Poetica
– Horace’s Ode i.11
– To delight vs. to instruct
– Lay off Polonius already
– Magic quotation marks
– A. M. Juster’s poem “No”
– John Donne’s Holy Sonnet X, “Death be not proud”
– Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “We Real Cool”
– Robert Herrick’s poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
– The Giving Tree
– The epilogue to Crime and Punishment
– The lovely, talented, and extremely online Quincy Lehr
– Some actual formalist Nazis
– A New Yorker article about the time W. E. B du Bois walloped Lothrop Stoddard in front of a live audience
– Dave Eggers’ short short “Woman Waits, Seething, Blooming”
– Reginald McKnight’s story “Into Night”
– Reginald McKnight’s story “Float”
– Alan Shapiro’s poem “Happy Hour”
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
