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What are the things that have turned out to be helpful for you? Show notes Eileen Myles Poetry Says ep 212. with Paul Kane Ronin (1998) Elijah’s podcast Versecraft Alice’s article about envy Scared Shitless by Merlin Man
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Two friends try to figure out what it means to write poems and stay sane while putting one foot in a poetry world that seems to baffle us all. By Alice Allan & Jonathan Farmer.
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What are the things that have turned out to be helpful for you? Show notes Eileen Myles Poetry Says ep 212. with Paul Kane Ronin (1998) Elijah’s podcast Versecraft Alice’s article about envy Scared Shitless by Merlin Man
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Tell me about a poet you admire. Show notes Lucille Clifton won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton The Ern Malley hoax Pam Brown‘s book click here for what we do The ALS gold medal Poetry Says episodes with Pam:
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How do you promote your poetry and put yourself out there without going insane? Show notes Alice’s Substack Alice’s book The Empty Show The AWP conference Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay At Length
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What’s the point of poetry? Show notes Timothée Chalamet’s statement on opera and ballet Ep 01. Fear Asphodel, that Greeny Flower by William Carlos Williams Poetry Says Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don’t think I love poet
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How do you manage your obligations to the people who appear in your poems? Show notes The Dolphin by Robert Lowell Alice’s poem Bad Boys for Life Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott The Hug by Thom Gunn Can Love
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How do you find your people? Show notes Bonny Cassidy Marrickville by Louise Carter Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott Jonathan’s essay “A Giving of the Self”: on Thom Gunn and Courtliness Donald Hall Melinda B
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Why do you have such a strong need to be productive? Show notes Merlin Mann The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris Getting Things Done by David Allen The Worst Person in the World (2021) Yelling at clouds (Alice on love hear
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Which pieces of writing advice get on your nerves? Show notes On Writing by Stephen King What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
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How should we learn poetry? Show notes Siegfried Sassoon Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Open Yale Courses’ Modern Poetry taught by Langdon Hammer Modern & Contemporary American Poetry taught by Al Filreis The Orang
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If you could clear away all the striving and the desire for recognition, what would you want to make in your poems? Show notes Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth The Other Side of Daylight by David Brooks SLEERIC
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