Archive - SLEERICKETS Secret Show

Gateway Drugs, ft. Mark Leidner, Pt. 2

M & M discuss Kafka, line breaks, varieties of formalism, and more.

Jul 12

49:33

Listener Crit #4

A & M discuss listener poems.

Jul 3

1:24:08

June 2025

I Am My Shelf of Books, ft. Brad Leithauser, Pt. 2

M & BL discuss poetic selectivity, different kinds of poets, publishing, and chess.

Jun 29

47:12

Not for the Living

Solo ep on Frankenstein & Nosferatu.

Jun 22

1:03:42

Beads & Lanyards

Solo ep on author bios and pattern recognition.

Jun 15

58:36

Shark Week, Pt. 2

M & A discuss men vs. women & insiders vs. outsiders.

Jun 5

1:15:17

May 2025

Insulting Everybody's Dad, Pt. 2

M & A & B sort of talk about Bob Dylan, also the true source of Babe Ruth's greatness.

May 30

55:28

It's Always Today, ft. Philip Metres, Pt. 2

M & P discuss writing in an emergency, what criticism does poorly, how to write fiction, and more.

May 25

1:02:17

The White Guy Publishing Vortex, ft. Ethan McGuire, Pt. 2

M & E discuss the weird world of mostly-white-and-male poetry presses.

May 18

52:15

Vile and Corrupt and Wrong and Evil and Bad

M & B discuss publishing, literary innovation, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

May 4

1:07:25

April 2025

A Theory of the Fire

M gives C a double book report on Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism and Omar El Akkad's One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.

Apr 26

2:19:19

Closing Time at the Horse & Groom, ft. Tristram Fane Saunders, Pt. 2

M & T discuss bad reviewers, good poets, and incompetent chicken sexers.

Apr 19

51:44

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