UNLOCKED: Shane McCrae Interview, Pt. 2
NB: After I recorded the intro and edited the three parts together, Squarespace informed me that it couldn’t host the entire interview in one post, or even in two, so I’m breaking it back up into three pieces, which I’m posting here together.
I’m reading with George David Clark and Ryan Wilson at Loganberry Books on June 13, at 6:00 pm, hosted by Elijah Blumov.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae
– Cain Named the Animal by Shane McCrae
– Stalker and Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky
– That time Elijah and I tried to scan a line
– The Dream Songs by John Berryman
– The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
– My most recent conversation with Alexis Sears
– The mini-issue of West Branch that Shane edited
– Liturgy
– Of the Scythians by Katha Pollitt
– Beowulf
– That time Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the Temple
– The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
– Juvenal
– Horace
– The Madness of Hercules by Seneca, trans. Dana Gioia
– Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
– One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
– High Windows by Philip Larkin
– Done on This Side by Joshua Mehigan
– Grendel by John Gardner
– Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
– That time Abraham smashed a bunch of icons
– That time the Taliban blew up a UNESCO World Heritage Site
– Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae
– The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae
– The SLRCKTS ep about the Toby Martinez de las Rivas controversy
– From Titan/All Is Still by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
– Floodmeadow by Toby Martinez de las Rivas
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Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
