Ep 11: Twitter v. Poetry
NB: In the opening segment, I refer to six poems, but then I only cite five. This is because what I originally took to be a soaring free verse election poem turned out to be just a transcription of a Bruce Springsteen Sirius XM ramble. Though, on second thought, maybe that still counts.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery”
– James Wright’s poems “Northern Pike,” “The Blessing,” and “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”
– Jessica Salfia’s poem “The First Lines of Emails I’ve Received While Quarantined”
– Ada Limón’s poem “The End of Poetry”
– Ross Gay’s poem “Sorrow Is Not My Name”
– Kitty’ O’Meara’s poem “In the Time of Pandemic”
– Derek Mahon’s poem “Everything Is Going to Be All Right”
– Alex Manley’s article “Twitter Doesn’t Want to Let the Poets Find Out About Science”
– Freud’s book “Totem and Taboo”
– Freud’s essay “The Uncanny”
– 30 Rock’s uncanny valley episode
– Alex Manley’s poem “Aeroelastic Flutter”
– Anne-Marie Thompson’s poem “Okay is”
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Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
