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SLEERICKETS

SLEERICKETS

By: Matthew Buckley Smith
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Welcome to SLEERICKETS, a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.

© 2021 Matthew Buckley Smith Art Literary History & Criticism
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  • Ep 197: Insulting Everybody’s Dad, Pt. 1

    Ep 197: Insulting Everybody’s Dad, Pt. 1
    May 30 2025
    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:Bob DylanBoyz II MenA Complete Unknown (2024)Timothée ChalametMalcolm Gladwell interviews Paul SimonDavid SimsJohn AshberyVisions of Johanna by Bob DylanJoan BaezA League of Their Own (1992)Pete Seeger The 2025 Super Bowl halftime showDubliners by James JoyceLegs by ZZ Top Megan Moroney profiled in The New Yorker A Bar Song (Tipsy) by ShaboozeyMatthew and Cameron discuss books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Secret ShowChalamet's SAG Awards acceptance speechAn Officer and a Gentleman (1982) Secret show notesJazz Chisholm Jr.So We’ll Go No More a Roving by Lord ByronRichard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson and the Simon & Garfunkel versionTo the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert HerrickJennifer Senior The King (2019)Frequently 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 PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: In FutureBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Ep 196: It’s Always Today, ft. Philip Metres, Pt. 1

    Ep 196: It’s Always Today, ft. Philip Metres, Pt. 1
    May 25 2025
    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:– Fugitive/Refuge by Philip Metres– Dispatches from the Land of Erasure by Philip Metres– Cameron’s new Substack, Minor Tiresias– What the Hell Is the Presidency for? by Jonathan Farmer– Svetlana Alexievich– The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry, Ed. Rita Dove– Lena Khalaf Tuffaha– Fady Joudah– Steven Salaita– Norman Finkelstein– Lawrence Joseph– Heaven Looks Like Us (anthology of Palestinian Poetry)– Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the 1960s by Philip Brian Harper– Phil’s seelction of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry:“End of a Talk with a Jailer” by Samih al-Qasimhttps://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2007/07/samih-al-qasims-end-of-talk-with.html“We Travel Like Other People” by Mahmoud Darwishhttps://rihlajourney.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/mahmoud-darwish-b-palestine-1941-we-travel-like-other-people/“State of Siege” by Mahmoud Darwishhttp://www.alkalimah.net/Articles/Read/8027“Against” by Rashid Hussein:https://adimagazine.com/articles/three-poems-by-rashid-hussain/“We” by Ghayath Almadounhttps://themarkaz.org/we-and-4978-and-one-nights-by-ghayath-almadhoun/“Write My Name” by Zeina Azzamhttps://www.arabamerica.com/palestinian-cry-from-gaza-write-my-name-goes-viral-in-poem-by-palestinian-american/“Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying” by Noor Hindihttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/154658/fuck-your-lecture-on-craft-my-people-are-dying[…] by Fady Joudah“Jerusalem” by Naomi Shihab Nyehttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54296/jerusalem-56d2347ab7a20“All Things Not Considered” by Naomi Shihab Nyehttps://mayazmi.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/all-things-not-considered-naomi-shihab-nye-women-in-poetry/“Variations on a Last Chance” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha https://themarkaz.org/lena-khalaf-tuffaha-two-poems/Frequently 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 PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: In FutureBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Ep 195: The White Guy Publishing Vortex, ft. Ethan McGuire, Pt. 1

    Ep 195: The White Guy Publishing Vortex, ft. Ethan McGuire, Pt. 1
    May 18 2025
    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, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave 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:– Ethan McGuire– Apocalypse Dance by Ethan McGuire– The New Verse Review– C. S. Lewis, Bronze Age Pervert, & Unserious Christianity by Ethan McGuire– Call Me the 21st-Century Ern Malley (How I Fooled the Poetry World) by Jasper Ceylon– A writer’s power can be rooted in real power or in fake power. Real power is better. by Naomi Kanakia– Links courtesy of Ethan:“The Vanishing White Male Writer” by Jacob Savage from the Matthew Schmitz magazine, Compact https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-vanishing-white-male-writer/Other articles2 "Liberal" ArticlesCNN, “Joyce Carol Oates claims White male writers are being shut out. The data disagrees,” Leah Asmelash https://www.cnn.com/style/article/joyce-carol-oates-white-men-publishing-cec/index.htmlFor the items it links to and/or referencesThe New York Times, “The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone,” David J. Morris https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opinion/men-fiction-novels.html2 "Conservative" ArticlesUnherd, “Publishing will never be fair,” Kat Rosenfield, https://unherd.com/2022/07/publishing-will-never-be-fair/National Conservatism, “Dissident Artists and Publishing are Creating a New Culture,” Jonathan Keeperman https://youtu.be/2dHtMM-8myU?si=ewHgUj0wd6SAPlrtThe only time I've ever written on the subject of the "sensitive young men of the literary alt-right": https://pomocon.substack.com/p/cs-lewis-bronze-age-pervert-and-christianFrequently 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 PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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    1 hr and 16 mins
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