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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Order Brian’s book The Optimists! It’s so g ood!Now give Brian’s book a 5-star r eview!

– My chapbook The Soft Black Stars is out now!

– The Frost Farm Prize results

– Why Don’t People Like Poetry? What Poetry Do People Like? by Daniel Cowper

– Ep 246: The Case for Didactic Poetry Part 1 & Part 2

– L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas by John Milton

– Odysseus’ Last Return to Ithaca by Pedro Poitevin

– XXIV by Philip Larkin

– Dune by Frank Herbert

– Dune (2021)

F requently mentioned name s:

– M at t Wall