On episode 40, I talk to the poet Tony Hoagland, Plus Bob Lamb Explains How Ernest Hemingway saved him from Rendition. Texts Discussed Sweet Ruin (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;"Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" Stupid Hope: Poems" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" Show Notes This episode begins with a limerick written and read by Chris Booth, in honor of our pal Steve Kelly: Just a few, and Steve's eyes 'gan to wander; Then day next he was mute and a-ponder: When he saw where he woke, In sad tones, thus he spoke: "It's Absinthe makes the heart to grow fonder."

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“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.