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

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  • Ep 204: Darkness Audible

    Ep 204: Darkness Audible
    Jul 19 2025
    SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Did I forget about Hitler? you ask. Did I forget about Stalin? On the one hand, yes, I temporarily did. On the other, there’s something about the notion that Gilles de Rais did all this personally in his own home for the explicit purpose of impressing the Devil with his evilness that really sickens the soul. But yes, good point, there’s always Hitler, who was, in his own way, the worst person who ever lived.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:– Paradise Lost by John Milton– Conspiracy by ContraPoints– Cameron’s travel notes– This Pleasing Anxious Being by Richard Wilbur– Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray– The Versecraft interview w/ James Matthew Wilson– The Death of Cicero by James Matthew Wilson (compare the first line to the first line of Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats)– The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov– How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm– How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)– Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert– ContraPoints’ comment on Gaza– Ready or Not (2019) & The Babysitter (2017) (same concept, same cosmology, same leading lady, both pretty entertaining)– The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina– Evil– Rod Dreher– La-bas by J.-K. Huysmans– Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize lecure– The Tower of Babel– Canceling by ContraPoints– We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky– Mitchell & Webb’s Lucentio sketchFrequently 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 Future PostsBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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    1 h y 23 m
  • Ep 203: Gateway Drugs, ft. Mark Leidner, Pt. 1

    Ep 203: Gateway Drugs, ft. Mark Leidner, Pt. 1
    Jul 12 2025
    NB: Oops, I meant 18th century. Also, Michael Haneke is Austrian after all.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:– Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize lecure– Leopards in the Temple" by Franz Kafka (couldn’t find any good links, so here’s the text Mark copy-pasted to me: “Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.“)– Returning the Sword to the Stone by Mark Leidner– Mark’s Substack: Opaque Hourglass– Recitatif by Tony Morrison– Funny Games (1997 & 2007)– Hamlet– Julius Caesar– Jack Handey– Andy Kaufman– Plato– The Gettysburg Address– Amleth– The Tower of Babel– The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil– Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize lecture– Chelsey Minnis– Juvenilia by Hera Lindsay Bird– A Field of Telephones by Zach Savich– Dogs of War by Mark LeidnerFrequently 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 Future PostsBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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    1 h y 5 m
  • Ep 202: Listener Crit #3

    Ep 202: Listener Crit #3
    Jul 3 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:Pretty Woman (1990)Pretty Woman cut scenesInsomnia by Elizabeth BishopLove Poem by John ForbesA Gift by Don Paterson90 North by Randall JarrellIn Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz by W. B. YeatsHeorot by Ryan WIlson James McAuleyEp 198: Shark WeekDan SavageFootloose (1984)Secret show notesBodies by Drowning PoolNew Year’s: A Short Pantoum by Greg WilliamsonCold Turkey by Joshua MehiganDropping a Han Dynasty Urn by Ai WeiweiHills Like White Elephants by Ernest HemingwayAmy HempelTired by Fenton JohnstonSonnet 130PriamelPresto Manifesto! by A. E. StallingsIn Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord TennysonNietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter KaufmannSonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent by John MiltonOgden NashThe Brand New Catastrophe by Mike Scalise EncomiumFlorida by Lauren GroffTravelling through the Dark by William StaffordAfter Filing for Divorce by Chelsea Rathburn The Soft Black Stars by Matthew Buckley SmithAubade by Philip LarkinOmnibus Review of Terrance Hayes, Charles Martin, Natasha Trethewey by Matthew Buckley SmithFrequently 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 Future PostsBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: Minor TiresiasMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith
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    1 h y 10 m
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