NB: Forgot to mention them, but I also saw Mary Jo Salter and Andrew Motion at ALSCW, among plenty of others!
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The ALSCW Conference
– Heavy Bored by Andrew Wittstadt
– The Ferguson Report: An Erasure by Nicole Sealey
– Ars Poetica by Christian Wiman
– The episode in which I discuss Sealey’s and Wiman’s poems
– The Versecraft episode on Confessionalism
– Declaration by Tracy K. Smith
– The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
– Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish
– Why Does God Keep Making Poets? by Tish Harrison-Warren
– The Rise of Non-Poetry Poetry by Vic Priestner
– Can Poetry Prevent Veteran Suicide? by Ben Weakley
– Help Me Hera: Am I a Real Poet? by Hera Lindsay Bird
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
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