Ep 20: Shop like a Poet
NB: Sorry some of these episodes have been so quiet. It’s a problem I’ve been working on, and I think I finally figured out how to fix it! Unfortunately, that was just after I finished recording this week’s episode. Next week I should finally be audible!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Freddie de Boer on making a living in publishing
– Cameron’s smart email
– Kaveh Akbar’s book Pilgrim Bell
– Man-of-many-hats Ryan Wilson
– My bad college workshop poetry
– Lyn Hejinian’s edition of The Best American Poetry
– Ocean Vuong’s poem “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”
– Frank O’Hara’s poem “Katy”
– Roger Reeves’ poem “Someday I’ll Love Roger Reeves”
– Andrew Epstein on the New York School roots of “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”
– Ocean Vuong’s book Night Sky with Exit Wounds
– Wolfgang Iser’s article “The Reading Process”
– Baudelaire’s mean prose poems
– Philip Larkin’s poem “The Old Fools”
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
