The judgy Judies play Toss or Keep to help their friend Tommy downsize his poetry library.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

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Some of the poems/poets/people mentioned in this episode include:

Robert Creeley, "I Know a Man" which you can read here and listen to Creeley read here. And here's a roundtable discussion of the poem (~11 minutes, with a recording of Creeley reading it during a visit to Harvard).

The poet Ai's book, Vice. Experience a video that includes her reading her poem "The Good Shepherd" here.

Matthew Dickman, All-American Poem

Elizabeth (betsy) Cox, I Have Told You and Told You. Read more about Cox's books with Penguin/Random House here.

Loiuse Glück. "First Memory" is the last poem in Ararat. Watch this dramatic reading of the poem by Eisa Davis.

Diane Gilliam Fisher, Kettle Bottom. Read more about Fisher here.

Carrie Fountain, Burn Lake. Read the title poem here.

Bob Hicok, Words for Empty, Words for Full. Read the poem "A Primer" mentioned in the show.

James's poem "Portrait as My Mother as the Republic of Texas" appears in their first book, Now You're the Enemy (U of Arkansas, 2008). Read that poem and a short interview about it here.

Watch this shady interview conducted with Paulina Porizkova about being fired by America's Next Top Model.

The comic Beth Littlefield conducted very funny interviews forThe Daily Show in which her interviewer persona sent up Barbara Walters's interviews. In her interview of Dionne Warwick, she started one question this way:"In 1985, you participated in 'We Are the World,' which gathered together some of the top performers of our day, and Latoya Jackson." Watch Warwick fall out here, at the 2:30 mark.

The ladies get manifesto on that butt! (And mouth.)

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Read more about D.H. Lawrence here.

Read William Carlos Williams's "Paterson" here and "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" here.

Jericho Brown writes about A.E. Housman in Mentor to Muse here

Read Dylan Thomas's poem "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"

Here's a link to Stevie Smith's poem "Not Waving But Drowning"

For more about Keith Douglas, visit: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/keith-douglas

Aaron tosses off a quote from "Mayakovsky" by Frank O'Hara, which you can read here.

Read Charles Olsen's "I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You"

Here's Alan Dugan's "Internal Migration: On Being on Tour"

Learn more about Judith Wright here.

The queens summon lines designed to stop readers in their tracks.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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SHOW NOTES:

Sharon Olds says that early in her poetic career, when she'd send out her poems, "[t]hey came back often with very angry notes." Receipt here.

W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues", or "Stop all the clocks" appeared in his book Another Time. The poem experienced renewed popularity after being read in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). "Funeral Blues" has since been cited as one of the most popular modern poems in the United Kingdom. Watch the poem read in the movie here.

Auden's "First Things First" appeared in The New Yorker in 1957. Hear Auden read the poem here.

Watch the incredible Michael Sheen read Auden's "September 1, 1939" here. Receipts about Auden's struggle with the end are here.

Read Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Mother" and listen here to Diane Seuss talk about this poem with us on Breaking Form.

Read Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour" or listen to him read it here. (It'll be a memorable experience!)

The poem we reference of Lynda Hull's is "Chiffon" which opens her book The Only World (HarperCollins 1995).

Read Robinson Jeffers's "Birds and Fishes"

Here's Frost's "Birches"

Aaron Smith's poem is "Jennifer Lawrence" can be read here.

Mark Doty's poem "Visitation" first appeared in The Paris Review.

Aiden Shaw appeared in Roll in the Hay, but did not grace the sets of Big River.