Ep 171: Into the Black
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Ethan’s response to this episode
– Wei Yi
– Poetry Says Ep 263. Water-dragon blues
– Poetry Says Ep 97. What makes poets lucky
– World Chess Championship 2024, Game 1
– Dreaming of Li Bai by Du Fu
– Chess24/Chess.com
– Gotham Chess
– Take Take Take
– On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche
– The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
– Sorrow and Words by Li Qingzhao
– The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats
– Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
– An Alley in Avignon by Mary Jo Salter
– Ethan’s recent thematically cohesive commonplace book
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Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:
Poetry Says by Alice Allan
I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall
Versecraft by Elijah Blumov
Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
Alice: Poetry Says
Brian: @BPlatzer
Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com
Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com
Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
