What are the things that have turned out to be helpful for you?
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Poetry Says ep 212. with Paul Kane
Ronin (1998)
Elijah’s podcast Versecraft
Scared Shitless by Merlin Mann
Spiderman pointing at Spiderman
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Tell me about a poet you admire.
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won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
Pam Brown‘s book click here for what we do
Poetry Says episodes with Pam: 104 (underprepared) and 175 (better prepared)
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How do you promote your poetry and put yourself out there without going insane?
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Alice’s book The Empty Show
Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
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What’s the point of poetry?
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Timothée Chalamet’s statement on opera and ballet
Asphodel, that Greeny Flower by William Carlos Williams
Poetry Says Ep 270. Jonathan Farmer: “I don’t think I love poetry.”
On Convention by Alan Shapiro
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop
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How do you manage your obligations to the people who appear in your poems?
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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 Last? by Stephen A. Mitchell
How to Be a Family by Dan Kois
The Night of the Gun by David Carr
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by Peta Leith
Jonathan’s review of the Larkin biography
Jonathan’s review of Patricia Lockwood
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How do you find your people?
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Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott
Jonathan’s essay “A Giving of the Self”: on Thom Gunn and Courtliness
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Why do you have such a strong need to be productive?
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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 hearts)
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Which pieces of writing advice get on your nerves?
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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
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Artists Way by Julia Cameron
Ep 232: Mr Bones, ft. Shane McCrae
Scared Shitless by Merlin Mann
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How should we learn poetry?
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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 Orange by Wendy Cope
Asphodel that Greeny Flower by William Carlos Williams
Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats
In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
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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?
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Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth
The Other Side of Daylight by David Brooks
SLEERICKETS Ep 178: All the Supposedly Wonderful Poetry
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler
Golden Repair by Louise Carter
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