Poetry is Good, Actually - a podcast by Crooked Russian Cam

Our hosts, but mostly Maq, discuss the art of poetry, the general terribleness of Ezra Pound, and the fact that Poetry is Good, Actually.

Maq chose a lot of poems for today's episode; below are some links from her show notes, including some poems we didn't get around to discussing but are worth reading nonetheless.

Reading List:

• Canto 2 from “Hang it all, Robert Browning” to the Greek. 11 lines only, that’s all we need to hate him. Found here: https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/poetry/canto-ii-pound/poem-text and here.
• From 2001, Alan Dugan’s Love Song: I & Thou
• From 1989, Haizi’s Looking out to sea, warmed by the spring air
• From 2010, Traci Brimhall’s Concerning Cuttlefish and Ugolino
• Let’s do a sonnet! From 1997, William Meredith’s The Illiterate
• Rania Kapoor’s (2016) The Introvert’s Banter
• Edwin Arlington Robinson’s (1914) Eros Turranos 
• Why I Haven’t Told You Yet by Emi Mahmoud
• A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts (1954)  by Wallace Stevens
• I Go Out on a Road Alone by Mikhail Lermentov
• Love One Another by Khalil Gibran
• Exeter Book Poem/Riddle 44  (approx  975)
• The Hallmark Poem  aka Easter Wings by George Herbert (only to complain about how shitty people existed even in the 17th century)
• Neil Hilborn’s OCD
• John Donne's The Flea, The Canonization, The Ecstasy, Satire III

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