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Ep 213: Listener Crit #5

Ep 213: Listener Crit #5

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 SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or hereFor more SLEERICKETS, subscribe to SECRET SHOW, join the group chat, and send me a poem for Listener Crit!Leave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it’s easier). Thanks!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!SLEERICKETS is now on YouTube!For a frank, anonymous critique on SLEERICKETS, subscribe to the SECRET SHOW and send a poem of no more 25 lines to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– Morri Creech won the Rattle Poetry Prize!– Is it unethical for lit mags to conceal what portion of work is solicited? by Becky Tuch– Tar River Poetry– Literary Matters– Tar River Poetry Reading Sunday, September 19, 2025– Chelsea Rathburn– Emily Dickinson– Alex McKeown– Ashley Anna McHugh– A Heroic Death by Charles Baudelaire– The first matador got the horn by Ernest Hemingway– Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats– Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats– Dizzy by David Yezzi– The Good News by David Yezzi– The Chain by David Yezzi– These Are the Poems, Folks by David Yezzi– On the Marionette Theatre by Heinrich von Kleist– Saeed Jones– Woman Waits, Seething, Blooming by Dave EggersFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Chris Childers– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna Pearson– Matt Wall– Steve Knepper – Helena FederOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: In Future PostsBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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