In this episode, Uncle Jerry and Angela get caught up on the latest Swiftie news, including the engagement and The Release Party of a Showgirl, and then they get into answering your questions from Instagram and TikTok. We cover poetry curriculum, how to get into scholarly pursuits, how Angela convinced Uncle Jerry to do the podcast, and how we select which songs we cover.There are links below to (most of!) the recommended literature from the episode. Some links are affiliate links, which means if you click and purchase, we will make a small commission at no cost to you.Works Cited:i carry your heart with me – e.e. cummingsEpithalamion – Edmund SpenserThe Hornblower Series – C.S. ForesterMr. Midshipman Hornblower (Book 1) – C.S. ForesterAfrican Queen – C.S. ForesterThe Good Shepherd – C.S. Forester2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. ClarkeStranger in a Strange Land Paperback – Robert A. HeinleinThe Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Oxford Book of Modern Verse – W.B. YeatsThe Oxford Book of English Verse – Christopher RicksThe Norton Anthology of American Literature – Robert S. LevineE. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens: The Corrected EditionLeaves of Grass – Walt WhitmanMetaphors We Live By – George Lakoff and Mark JohnsonTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair – Pablo NerudaThe Poet and His Book: The Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Complete Poems of Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems: Anne SextonThe Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry Paperback – Rita DoveAmerican Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker – Robert HassThe Oxford Book of American Short Stories – Joyce Carol OatesA Cool Million Paperback – Nathanael WestLucky Jim Paperback – Kingsley AmisCold Comfort Farm Paperback – Stella Gibbons Bleak House – Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity Shop – Charles DickensNicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens⁠YouTube⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠Instagram⁠Angela’s Instagram

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