SLEERICKETS
Welcome to SLEERICKETS, a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 71 minutes
- Episodes
- 226
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Ep 25: Metaphorical Gal, ft. Brian Platzer
Brian Platzer and I performatively yell at each other about I'm Thinking of Ending Things!
01:29:50 |
Wed 06 Oct 2021
Ep 24: Musée des NSFW Arts
Ethics and museum placards and dancing girls and Keats.
01:17:12 |
Wed 29 Sep 2021
Ep 23: Rhymes Without Beats, ft. James Nguyen
James Nguyen and I discuss bullshit, markets, spoken-word poetry, and the philosophical musings of Will Smith!
01:28:19 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
Ep 22: The Truth Is Probably Not Out There
Smart listener questions and stupid poetry bullshit!
01:31:36 |
Wed 15 Sep 2021
Ep 21: A Dirty Thing for Boys, ft. Steve Teare
A highly unserious conversation with comics artist Steve Teare!
01:22:32 |
Wed 08 Sep 2021
Ep 20: Shop like a Poet
SLEERICKETS gets popular (sort of)! Ocean Vuong tries to love himself! More incoherence!
01:09:17 |
Wed 01 Sep 2021
BONUS: Featuring Brian Platzer! ft. Brian Platzer
Brian and I get into some nonfiction-related ethical dilemmas, the sexual subtext of W. Somerset Maugham's novels, and as always the sublime!
00:40:03 |
Thu 26 Aug 2021
Ep 19: The Realish Thing, ft. Brian Platzer
Brian Platzer and I talk shit about a very good piece of nonfiction.
01:18:49 |
Wed 25 Aug 2021
Ep 18: We All Die Together
Poets and philosophers clash. Everybody's wrong.
01:26:31 |
Wed 18 Aug 2021
Ep 17: A Poem-Shaped Void
Listener emails and trashy pop culture and poetry-world nonsense and a really good poem!
01:29:32 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
Ep 16: Rhino Horn, Diamonds & Meth, ft. Shashi Bhat
A sprawling conversation with novelist Shashi Bhat! Blogging, watching TV, and correcting Elizabeth Bishop!
01:27:54 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
Ep 15: How Not to Write About Poetry
In this episode, I read three poetry articles and get cranky about all three! Vacation is exhausting! Enjoy!
00:59:27 |
Thu 29 Jul 2021
Ep 13: Against Hope
A genre-crossing case against optimism and self-actualization. Not actually (that) depressing, I promise! Greek myths, polar explorers, zombies!
01:21:01 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
Ep 12: Two or Three Taboos
This is a weird one! Joe Pesci and Freud and Kant and Sherlock Holmes and too much cheesecake! Light on poetry, but there's some Walcott at the end.
01:22:02 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
Ep 11: Twitter v. Poetry
For my birthday I made this extra-dumb solo episode all about poetry and science facts and Twitter.
01:05:32 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
Ep 10: Debunking Kafka, ft. Austin Allen
Austin Allen joins me for a big messy conversation about C. P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" and also a bunch of dumb shit, too!
01:40:17 |
Wed 23 Jun 2021
BONUS: Not a Poetry Person, ft. Anna Backer
Father's Day–sister–interview bonus episode!
01:02:28 |
Sun 20 Jun 2021
Ep 9: Thou Shalt Not Jazz June
Sorry it's a little late. Editing was a motherfucker. This one is about poems with morals. Among other things.
01:27:42 |
Wed 16 Jun 2021
Ep 8: Prodigal Dad, ft. Traci O’Dea
The charming and talented Traci O'Dea joins me to talk about her new book of poems, Restricted Movement, featuring paintings by her dad, Tommy O'Dea--and also to talk about Billie Eilish, and Instag…
01:11:15 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
Ep 7: My love is like a red red grawlix
I was going to title this episode "I Just Called to Say Go Fuck Yourself," but then I was worried that it might get bounced from a certain profanity-shy industry-dominating podcast distributor. This …
01:07:03 |
Wed 02 Jun 2021
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