Advice From an Unknown Poet

Why do you have such a strong need to be productive? Show notes Merlin Mann The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris Getting Things Done by David Allen The Worst Person in the World (2021) Yelling at clouds (Alice on love hearts)

Which pieces of writing advice get on your nerves? Show notes On Writing by Stephen King What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp The Writing Life by Annie Dillard Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Scrivener The Artists Way by Julia Cameron Eileen Myles Ep 232: Mr Bones, ft. Shane McCrae Joshua Mehigan George Oppen SLEERICKETS group chat! Scared Shitless by Merlin Mann

How should we learn poetry? Show notes Siegfried Sassoon Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Open Yale Courses’ Modern Poetry taught by Langdon Hammer Modern & Contemporary American Poetry taught by Al Filreis The Orange by Wendy Cope Asphodel that Greeny Flower by William Carlos Williams Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)

If you could clear away all the striving and the desire for recognition, what would you want to make in your poems? Show notes Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth The Other Side of Daylight by David Brooks SLEERICKETS Ep 178: All the Supposedly Wonderful Poetry Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler Golden Repair by Louise Carter

How do you deal with the weird mix of professional and personal connection that comes along with relationships in the poetry world? Show notes SLEERICKETS: Five Blade Mode, ft. Jonathan Farmer To the Dead by Frank Bidart

What do you do with the fear that you aren’t very good? Show notes Berryman by W. S. Merwin Proxies by Brian Blanchfield