The Flummoxed Podcast

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer’s Journey Through the Sacred & the Profane, from Bashō to Bluegrass & BeyondThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon and GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 11: Zhang Yimou, Zack Snyder, & the Mythological Imagination”:Introduction:* My “2025 Year in Review”* The ALSCW 2025 Conference* Elijah Perseus Blumov* Zina Gomez-Liss and The Beauty of Things* “The Beauty of Things” by Robinson Jeffers* Zina’s ALSCW 2025 Conference write-up: “For the Psychopomps and Famous Letter Writers”* My “Poetry and Mythology” panel paper: “Movies as Popular Poetry: Zhang Yimou, Zack Snyder, and the Mythological Imagination”* Zhang Yimou* Zack SnyderOn Movies and Popular Poetry:* “Patronage” by Amit Majmudar* Plato* The Republic* Homer* Aristotle* Nietzsche* Thus Spoke Zarathustra* Cinema* The Poetics* εἰκός* ποί-ησις* Plato’s Forms* Tolkien’s “sub-creation”* Heidegger’s “bringing-forth”* Schopenhauer’s “representation”* The Nicomachean Ethics* Xenophon* The Birth of Tragedy* Pascal’s “Différence entre l’esprit de géométrie et l’esprit de finesse”* Heraclitus’s “unity of opposites”* Schopenhauer’s “will to life”* Nietzsche’s “will to power”* Civilization in TransitionOn Zhang Yimou:* The NYT’s 2004 interview with Zhang Yimou* Virgil and his Aeneid* China’s “Fifth Generation Filmmakers”* Red Sorghum (1987)* Raise the Red Lantern (1991)* Hero (2002)* Shadow (2018)* Full River Red (2023)* The 2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony* The Guardian’s 2004 interview with Zhang Yimou* King Zheng of Qin* The Tao Te Ching, Poem Two* “Man Jiang Hong”* “Red River” by Yue Fei, translated by Ethan McGuire in New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative PoetryOn Zack Snyder:* The Aristophanic Adam Sandler as discussed by Eric McDonough, Sannah McDonough, and me* Sndyer, as quoted by Rebecca Winters Keegan for TIME* The Tang Dynasty’s “new-style poetry”* Man of Steel (2013)* Rebel Moon (2023 and 2024)* “The Longhouse”* Bronze Age Pervert* Leo Strauss on “understanding the low in the light of the high” (in his 1965 book, Spinoza’s Critique of Religion)* Homer’s epic meter* Wagner’s operas* Excalibur (1981)* Jesus Christ* Nietzsche’s Übermensch* Peter Lawler on “Plato and the Man of Steel”* The Antichrist* The Anti-Christian* Dawn of Justice* “God is dead” (Nietzsche’s “Parable of the Madman”)* Turki Al-Sheikh* Aeschylus* Twilight of the Gods (2024)* The Twilight of the Idols* Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the GreeksIn Conclusion:* Yvor Winters* “All-Under-Heaven”* Elijah Blumov’s “The Iron Lyre: Poetry, Heavy Metal, and the New Sublime”* The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry* My “Against the Rotten Tomatoes/Letterboxd Consensus,” Nietzsche’s “yes to life,” Plato’s Eros, and Dante’s LoveOther great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast’s intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer’s Journey Through the Sacred & the Profane, from Bashō to Bluegrass & BeyondThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon and GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 10: Adam Sandler the Artist, Pt. 2 (feat. Eric & Sannah McDonough)”:* The Flummoxed Podcast “Ep. 9: Adam Sandler the Artist, Pt. 1 (feat. Eric & Sannah McDonough)”* My 2 Sandler articles:* “In Defense of the Real Adam Sandler” at The Dispatch* “In Defense of the Real Adam Sandler” at The Flummoxed* Adam Sandler* Mr. Deeds* Mr. Deeds Goes to Town* Frank Capra* The Waterboy* “Canteen Boy”* Hubie Halloween* You Don’t Mess with the Zohan* Spanglish* Big Daddy* The Cobbler* Bedtime Stories* The 2023 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor* Pauline Kael’s “Trash, Art, & the Movies” in Harper’s* Billy Wilder* Preston Sturges* Mike Judge* Jack & JillOther great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast’s intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer’s Journey Through the Sacred & the Profane, from Bashō to Bluegrass & BeyondThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon and GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 9: Adam Sandler the Artist, Pt. 1 (feat. Eric & Sannah McDonough)”:* Adam Sandler* “Against the Rotten Tomatoes/Letterboxd Consensus” on The Flummoxed* “Poetry for the Public: When I Had a Poem in the South Wales Evening Post” on The Flummoxed* Eric McDonough on X* Sannah McDonough on X* Eric McDonough on Letterboxd* Eric and Sannah McDonough’s The Movie Shelf podcast* Frank Capra* Aristophanes* My 2 Sandler articles:* “In Defense of the Real Adam Sandler” at The Dispatch* “In Defense of the Real Adam Sandler” at The Flummoxed* “Defending Adam Sandler” at The Flummoxed* “Adam Sandler the Artist, Pt. 1” at The Movie Shelf* “Adam Sandler the Artist, Pt. 2” at The Movie Shelf* Happy Gilmore* The Cobbler* Armond White* Saturday Night Live* “SNL Best of Adam Sandler” YouTube playlist* Billy Madison* Tim Herlihy* A Christmas Story* Back to School* Big Daddy* Eddie Murphy* Shakespeare* Steve Buscemi* Little Nicky* Punch-Drunk Love* Roger Ebert’s review of Mr. Deeds* Armond White’s review of Punch-Drunk Love* Robert Altman* Brad Pitt & Adam Sandler on Variety’s “Actors on Actors” seriesOther great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast’s intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer's Journey Through the Sacred & the Profane, from Bashō to Bluegrass & BeyondThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon and GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 8: The Legend and Poetry of Yue Fei”:* “Between the Hillocks” by Yue Fei in Literary Matters* “A Poem at Galloping Horse Hill,” “Red River,” and “A Song of Drums” by Yue Fei in New Verse Review* “The Echoes of Hooves,” “A River South,” and “Crossing the River” by Yue Fei in Blue Unicorn* “Yue Fei: General, Poet, Legend” in New Verse Review* “General Yue Fei: The Life, Death, & Poetry of a Warrior” in MW (“The Legend of Yue Fei”) and The Flummoxed* Zhang Yimou’s Full River Red* Eric McDonough and Matthew Buckley Smith* The Chinese Song Dynasty* The Jin-Song Wars* “The Humiliation of Jingkang”* Ci and Shi poetry* Zhao Mengfu* Li Qingzhao* Li Bai* Aaron Poochigian* Classical Chinese and Middle Chinese* Ezra Pound’s Cathay* Arthur Waley’s A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems* A.R. Davis’s The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse* Ryan Wilson’s Proteus Bound* Qin Hui* Qian Cai’s General Yue Fei* The Tao Te Ching of Lao TzuOther notes:* All the translations in this episode are by me.Other great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer's Journey Through the Sacred & the Profane, from Bashō to Bluegrass & BeyondThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon and GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 7: Beau is Afraid of Eros”:* “Beau is Afraid: A Ramble”* Beau is Afraid* Ari Aster at UCSB* “Behind the Scenes of Beau is Afraid”* The Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud* Pascal’s Pensées* C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength, Chapter 14* “Jungsferatu: Some Failures of One Seeker of the Sublime”* Dante’s Paradiso XXXIII.85-87* Plato’s Symposium* Plato’s Apology* Xenophon’s Memorabilia* “A Diner for David Lynch: Poems in Remembrance of a Master”* Eternal Stories from the UpanishadsOther great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer's Journey Through the Sacred & the Profane, from Bashō to Bluegrass & BeyondThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon and GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 6: Love, Liberty, & the Color Blue”:* I Corinthians 13* Three Colors: Blue* The Three Colors trilogy* Krzysztof Kieślowski* Elijah Perseus Blumov * Cameron Clark * Aristotle's Poetics* Versecraft* Plato’s Republic* Alice Allan* Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation* World Cinema Project* Scorsese’s 2014 Salon interview* Stanley Kubrick’s foreword to Kieslowski & Piesiewicz, Decalogue: The Ten Commandments* Zhang Yimou* Wong Kar-wai* Andrzej Wajda* Pawel Pawlikowski* Nietzsche's “Parable of the Madman”* Liberté, égalité, fraternité* Roger Ebert on the Three Colors trilogy* “The Art of Film, via Brat and Brooder,” Stephen Holden, The New York Times, Aug. 5, 1998* Camera Buff (1979)* Blind Chance (1987)* Dekalog (1989-1990)* The Double Life of Veronique (1991)Other great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer's Journey Through the Sacred & the Profane, from Bashō to Bluegrass & BeyondThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon and GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 5: The Reaper’s Mixtape”:* Apocalypse Dance* My Apocalypse Dance prequel chapbook, Before Apokalypto* The Flummoxed Podcast “Ep. 4: A Book’s Long Journey to Publication”* Geoffrey Hill’s Speech! Speech!* Zina Gomez-Liss, The Beauty of Things, and The Beauty of Things Podcast* New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry* Zina Gomez-Liss’s “Mixtapes Will Save Poetry” and “Love, Poetry, and Mixtapes”* Matthew Buckley Smith and Sleerickets* David Gosselin, Age of Muses, and a “New Summer Mixtape Series”* Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching* My “A Christian Reflection on the Tao Te Ching’s First Poem”* Maryann Corbett’s “Capital Improvements: The Initial-Caps Wars” at Literary Matters* Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand”* Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Book 4* The Struma, or Strymon, River* Genesis 19* Leonard Cohen’s “The Future”* General Yue Fei and my Yue Fei translations project, as described at New Verse Review* The Confucian Classic Book of Rites* Hurricane Sally, 2020* C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man* Sylvia Plath’s “Fever 103°”* Metallica’s “Through the Never” (written by James Alan Hetfield)* My “The Reaper’s Revelation”* Dana Gioia’s “Poetry as Enchantment” at Wide-Eyed with Wiseblood Books* Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North“The Reaper’s Mixtape” “track list”:* “F r a g m e n t s”* “Salt”* “Damned Winter”* “The Old Gods”* “Between the Hillocks”* “Hurricane Sally Aftermath”* “Fever of the Tao”* “Welcome to Eternity”* “Autumn Wind/Winter Rush”* “Red Christmas Kettles”* “December Sunset”* “The King and Queen of Neon”* “The Bluegrass Players”Other notes:* When I say that in “F r a g m e n t s” each 2nd half of each line in each quatrain contains 2 beats, then 3 beats, then 2, then 3—as the inverse of the ballad poetic form’s arrangement of metrical feet (4, 3, 4, 3)—I neglected to say that in each instance I consider the 1st half of each line an additional 1 beat (despite often technically having more than that), which of course is necessary to fulfill my “inverse of the ballad.”Other great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer's Journey Through the Sacred and the ProfaneThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon and GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 4: A Book’s Long Journey to Publication”:* My first full-length book, a poetry collection, Apocalypse Dance* My first chapbook, Songs for Christmas* My second chapbook, Before Apokalypto* The Flummoxed Podcast, “Ep. 3: For Father’s Day”* The Flummoxed Podcast, “Ep. 3.1: Ozark Elegy”* Eric McDonough* The National Gallery of Art’s Christoph Murer collection* The Adobe Minion/Minion Pro font* The Sorts Mill Goudy font* The Goudy/Goudy Old Style font* Midlife by Matthew Buckley Smith* Dana Gioia’s “Poetry as Enchantment” at Wiseblood Books* Dana Gioia’s Poetry as Enchantment and Other Essays at Paul Dry Books* Dr. Lesa Seibert at Bob Jones University* E.D. - Music, Movies, Etc.* The West Florida Literary Federation/Emerald Coast Writers* The Rabbit Room* Dana Gioia* Amit Majmudar* James Matthew Wilson* Sleerickets* Alice Allan* Elijah Perseus Blumov* Cameron Clark* Wipf & Stock* Gregory Wolfe and Slant Books* Pericles, in Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War* Elijah, the prophets of Baal, and the little cloud* Speech! Speech! by Geoffrey Hill, to borrow or purchase at the Internet Archive* Ryan Wilson* Literary Matters* Hero (2002), dir. Zhang YimouOther great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer's Journey Through the Sacred and the ProfaneThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon and GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 3.1: Ozark Elegy”:* The Flummoxed Podcast “Ep. 3: For Father’s Day”* My short story “Ozark Elegy”Other great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer's Journey Through the Sacred and the ProfaneThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon and GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 3: For Father’s Day”:* Cormac McCarthy & No Country for Old Men* Dante’s Divine Comedy, esp. Purgatorio* Father’s Day* Alice Allan* “Fishing” by A.E. Stallings* Elijah Perseus Blumov’s Versecraft ep. on “Fishing”* “Father and Child” by Gwen Harwood (perhaps someone can suggest a better link?)* My chapbook Songs for Christmas* My poem “Father and Son”* My book Apocalypse Dance* My poem “The Bluegrass Players”Other notes:* Thank you for bearing with me as I improve my editing skills!Other great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One Writer's Journey Through the Sacred and the ProfaneThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuire.Subscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app, and leave the show a rating, a like, and a comment wherever you can!Contact me at The Flummoxed SubstackSubscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon or GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 2: The Mind of God and the Mind of Man”:* The original The Flummoxed “The Mind of God and the Mind of Man” piece* The Flummoxed “About”* The Flummoxed Podcast, “Ep. 1: Mother’s Day and Nurses Week”* “Borges on Life and Death” in The New York Times* “Inferno I, 32” by Jorge Luis Borges* “Paradiso XXXI, 108” by Jorge Luis Borges* Dante’s Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto 1* The Book of Romans* The Book of Isaiah* The Book of JobOther notes:* Check out my recent appearance on the Sleerickets podcast!* I apologize for the too-frequent clicks and a few notification sounds. This podcast is, for now, lo-fi, but even then I am (perhaps too slowly) refining it.* Sorry for the mispronunciations! I will do better.Other great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysThe Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe

The Flummoxed Podcast: One writer's journey through the sacred and the profaneThe Flummoxed Podcast is a supplement to The Flummoxed SubstackThe Flummoxed Substack is a collection of criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and translations by Ethan McGuireSubscribe to The Flummoxed Podcast at The Flummoxed Substack or on your favorite podcasting app. And leave the show a rating wherever you can!Subscribe to The Flummoxed Substack at TheFlummoxed.Substack.comBuy my debut poetry book, Apocalypse Dance! And leave it a rating at Amazon or GoodReads.Some of the topics mentioned in “Ep. 1: Mother’s Day and Nurses Week”:* Zina Gomez-Liss * Steve Knepper* New Verse Review* Elijah Perseus Blumov* Versecraft* “Gone Substackin’” and the Li Bai poem* “The New Flummoxed + A Writing Tour”* Apocalypse Dance* Before Apokalypto* Songs for Christmas* Aristotle’s Poetics* The Flummoxed “About”* J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring* Mother’s Day* Nurses Week* "COVID-19 Sidewalk Chalk 4-16-2020"* "On Another Average Evening" at The New Verse News* Rattle: Poets Respond* “Dear Mom”* "Mother Charity" at Fevers of the Mind* “Saint Monica” at Agape Review* The title “Saint Monica” is a reference to the mother of Saint Augustine* “Butchering” by Rhina P. EspaillatOther great podcasts to enjoy:* Sleerickets* The New Thinkery* Versecraft* Poetry SaysContact me at The Flummoxed Substack.The Flummoxed Podcast's intro music is by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The art is by Ethan McGuire and cottonbro studio. Get full access to The Flummoxed at theflummoxed.substack.com/subscribe