SLEERICKETS

Ep 241: A Serious House

11 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Advent wreath, obviously. One probably shouldn’t set fire to an advent calendar.SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable prob...

Ep 240: AMA #3, Pt. 1

02 Apr 2026

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INTRODUCING Advice from an Unknown Poet

26 Mar 2026

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Ep 236: Listener Crit #9

26 Mar 2026

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Ep 239: Listener Crit #10

21 Mar 2026

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Ep 238: AWP 2026

13 Mar 2026

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Ep 237: If it doesn’t taste good, you can’t serve it

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 236: Listener Crit #9

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

Ep 237: If it doesn’t taste good, you can’t serve it

03 Mar 2026

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Ep 235: Romanticon Now, ft. Paul Franz & Elijah Perseus Blumov, Pt. 1

21 Feb 2026

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Ep 234: Midlife Show-and-Tell, ft. Katie Dozier

15 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 233: In Fair Verona

06 Feb 2026

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Ep 232: Mr Bones, ft. Shane McCrae

31 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 231: Insidious Tendencies, ft. Steven Searcy

25 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 230: The Christian Poetry Shell Game

18 Jan 2026

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Ep 229: Art Sex Drugs Food

11 Jan 2026

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Ep 228: Bad Poet Fight

05 Jan 2026

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Ep 227: A Particularly Scottish Conversation, ft. Niall Campbell

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 226: Dearly Beloved

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Man, I so wanted to call this episode All Hail the Nuptial Fuck Chamber but out of respect for Elijah and his family, I gave it a nice title inste...

Ep 225: Listener Crit #8

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NB: My confusing mention of Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death mistakenly gave Alice the impression that the book is by Freud. Instead it’s just ...

Ep 224: Broadway Omnibus

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 223: Dowsing Rods & Decoder Rings

26 Nov 2025

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Ep 222: Poetry Voice Classic, ft. Jonathan Farmer

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NB: The first time I refer to Gonzalez, I say the wrong last name, because I am dumb. Sorry, Eliza! Sorry, also, for everything else. SLEERICKETS is a...

Ep 221: ALSCW 2025

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 220: Big in Romania, ft. Versecraft

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 219: Listener Crit #7

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

Ep 218: Fair Play

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Oops, got this out late! The reading already happened, but I think it went w...

Ep 217: Atheist Sip & Paint, Pt. 1

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Jane! It was Jane, not Julie, who recommended the TIB essay. Sorry, Jane!SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. My ...

Ep 216: Tall Orders

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 215: The Old Criterion

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 214: Serious Bad Catholic, ft. Steve Knepper, Pt. 1

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

Ep 213: Listener Crit #5

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

Ep 212: Girls! Girls! Girls! ft. Alexis Sears & Joanna Pearson

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Also the title of a good Liz Phair song. And Chloe Pirrie is Scottish.My boo...

Ep 211: Literary Matters 18.1

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: In case it needs saying, no, I don’t think people should just seize hold o...

Ep 210: Middle-Aged Witches, Pt. 1, ft. Versecraft & The Flummoxed

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 209: Hybrid Vigor, ft. Derek Mong, Pt. 1

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 208: Password to the Ghost World, Pt. 1

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Oops, I said the wrong first name of Marilyn vos SavantMy book Midlife now e...

Ep 207: Wild Ernestness, Pt. 1, ft. Jonathan Farmer

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Alice also recommends this highly Mountainhead-esque footage of Peter Thiel.SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. ...

Ep 206: Feels Good While It’s Happening, ft. Matt Wall

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 205: Ascending Orders of Meaninglessness

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: I said pull quotes but they’re actually, like, source quotes or something....

Ep 204: Darkness Audible

19 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ha...

Ep 203: Gateway Drugs, ft. Mark Leidner, Pt. 1

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Oops, I meant 18th century. Also, Michael Haneke is Austrian after all.SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. My bo...

Ep 202: Listener Crit #3

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 201: I Am My Shelf of Books, ft. Brad Leithauser, Pt. 1

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 200: The Neck Tattoo

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Courtesy of Shane: “For John Berryman” does in fact appear in Lowell’s...

Ep 199: Only Bad Poems, ft. moonandmouth

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 198: Shark Week, Pt. 1

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 197: Insulting Everybody’s Dad, Pt. 1

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 196: It’s Always Today, ft. Philip Metres, Pt. 1

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 195: The White Guy Publishing Vortex, ft. Ethan McGuire, Pt. 1

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Secret Show Ep 144: Listener Crit #2

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 194: Listener Crit #1

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: (1.) Sorry for the abbreviated show notes recently. (2.) At one point I say ...

Ep 193: A Big-Handed Beautiful Woman

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 192: Turn Out Your Pockets

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 191: Closing Time at the Horse & Groom, ft. Tristram Fane Saunders, Pt. 1

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 190: One-Peacoat Poetics

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NB: For those who are interested/concerned, I ended up deciding against the influential-editor-publication strategy discussed in the intro. Slightly l...

Ep 189: The Walcott Scandal, ft. Jonathan Farmer, Pt. 1

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 188: Counseling Out, Pt. 1

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

Ep 187: This Was Poetry, ft. Versecraft, Pt. 1

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Oops, guess it was more than ten years.My book Midlife now exists. Buy it he...

Ep 186: A QWERTYUIOP of the Mind

16 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Jonathan helpfully pointed out that Lincoln was (obviously) re-elected in 18...

Ep 185: Don’t Drown, ft. Naomi Kanakia, Pt. 1

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

Ep 184: Chaos Reigns, Pt. 1

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Sign up for Alexis Sears’s 92NY online poetry class now—deadline Wednesday, Feb 26!SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable...

Ep 183: The Icy Élysée, ft. Alan Shapiro, Pt.1

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Alan’s most recent poetry collection is, in fact, By and By, from Waywiser PressSLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable prob...

Ep 182: Cherchez la femme

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 181: Against Sticks-&-Stones-ism

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Brian informs me that Yarvin’s interviewer was actually David Marchese, not Michael Barbaro, which might explain why I found him so much less in...

Ep 180: AMA 2025, Pt. 1

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 179: Hill’s Last Lecture, ft. Versecraft, Pt. 1

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 178: All the Supposedly Wonderful Poetry, ft. Jonathan Farmer

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 177: Alice & Elijah vs. the Abyss, ft. Versecraft, Pt. 1

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 176: A disaster that never arrives, Pt. 1

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 175: What Voice Is, ft. Jonathan Farmer, Pt. 1

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 174: The Losing Position, Pt. 1

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 173: Swart Verse, ft. A. E. Stallings, Pt. 1

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Stallings wrote in to add a note: “I am somewhat mortified to realize that...

Ep 172: Less Human Than Human, Pt. 1

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Oops, I said the study appeared in Scientific Reports, which it did, but thi...

Ep 171: Into the Black

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Michael Jordan is alive. The knights are of course shaped like horses.My boo...

Ep 170: New Advances in Quitting Poetry, ft. Versecraft

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 169: Thunder & Rain

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems. NB: Oops, forgot to mention all the non-voting/protest voting listeners out ther...

Ep 168: What Are Houses For?, ft. James Haverty Smith

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 167: Poetry Magazine, October 2024, Pt. 1

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 166: Three Bird Mafia, ft. Jonathan Farmer

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 165: The Mountain Pass, ft. Philip Metres, Pt. 1

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 164: The Quiet Part

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 163: How Racist Is Creative Writing?, ft. Alexis Sears & Joanna Pearson

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

Ep 162: The Train There’s No Getting Off, ft. Derek Mong

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 161: Handbook for the Recently Deceased Poet

07 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB3: Check out former guest Victoria Moul’s criticism of this episode here!NB2: Speaking of Whoreywood, check out Matt Wall’s bananas unfinished m...

Ep 160: Part of the Problem

31 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 159: For F***’s Sake Finally, ft. Versecraft

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

Ep 158: Revision & the Individual Talent, ft. Katie Hartsock

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

Ep 157: The A**h***’s Gambit

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB: The conversation this week is between Brian and me. At one point in the intro I mistakenly call him Ryan. Also, I use the word pinned casually and...

Ep 156: Greater Metropolitan Shaltador, ft. Victoria Moul

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Ep 155: Furious Marginalia, ft. Christopher Childers, Pt. 1

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Yes, I realize that my statement “Nobody ever speaks in rhyme and meter” is in fact a line of iambic pentameter.My book Midlife now exists. Bu...

Ep 154: Cleveland Roundtable

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB: OK, so the names I couldn’t remember in the intro were as follows: LM is how we all consistently refer to Literary Matters because we are so coo...

Ep 153: C’est moi

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB: I know, I know, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol wasn’t originally a play.My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or here...

Ep 152: Back in Your Head

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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UNLOCKED: AMA #1, Pt. 2

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Shashi Bhat asked one of these questions, and I forgot to credit her! Buy her book here!My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rat...

UNLOCKED: AMA #1, Pt. 1

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB: Shashi Bhat asked one of these questions, and I forgot to credit her! Buy her book here!My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rat...

UNLOCKED: Shane McCrae Interview, Pt. 3

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB: After I recorded the intro and edited the three parts together, Squarespace informed me that it couldn’t host the entire interview in one post, ...

UNLOCKED: Shane McCrae Interview, Pt. 2

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB: After I recorded the intro and edited the three parts together, Squarespace informed me that it couldn’t host the entire interview in one post, ...

REPOST: Shane McCrae Interview, Pt. 1

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB: After I recorded the intro and edited the three parts together, Squarespace informed me that it couldn’t host the entire interview in one post, ...

UNLOCKED Secret Show Ep: Paging Dr. Platzmouth

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NB: The reading is at 6:00 pm! The reading is at 6:00 pm!My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or hereFor more SLEERICKET...