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NOTES:

Read "Hap" by Thomas Hardy. And watch a here's a video enactment/reading of "Hap" by Thomas Hardy. And watch a reading/enactment of the poem here.

Read a terrific essay about Hardy's poem published by the Thomas Hardy Society here.

Thomas Hardy wrote 947 poems, and you can read them all online here.

For more about Taylor Swift's newest album's variations, read this piece in Vareity.

Tom Brady does not have a brother who plays football.

Gayle King interviewed Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams at the Golden Globes. See the viral-video exchange here.

Here's a reddit thread on being rejected on Christmas Eve.

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Show Notes:

We read poems by Amy Lowell and Jubi Arriola-Headley

Check out Jubi Arriola-Headley's website here, and an obituary here.

Learn more about Amy Lowell here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amy-lowell

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Show Notes:

We read poems by Giada Scodellaro and Natalie Louise Tombasco.

Check out Giada Scodellaro's website here: https://giadascodellaro.com/

Check out Natalie Louise Tombasco's website: https://natalielouisetombasco.com/

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Show Notes:

We read poems by Kelli Russell Agodon and Afaa Michael Weaver.

Learn more about Afaa Michael Weaver here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/afaa-michael-weaver

Check out Kelli Russell Agodon's website: https://www.agodon.com/index.html

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Show Notes:

We read poems by Jonterri Gadson & Patrica Traxler

Check out Jonterri Gadson's website: https://www.jonterrigadson.com/

You can read more about Patricia Traxler on this Wikipedia page.

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Show Notes:

We read poems by Mary Helen Callier & Virginia Chase Sutton

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Check out Virginia Chase Sutton's website: https://www.virginiachasesutton.com/

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Show Notes:

We read poems by David Hernandez and Dorian Elizabeth Knapp.

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Check out David Hernandez's website: http://www.davidahernandez.com/

Nerd tops, dom tops, soft tops: the queens go gaga over a discussion of their top poems by favorite poets.

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SHOW NOTES:

Poems and poets discussed in this episode include:

Sharon Olds: "The Race"; "Topography"; "First"

Louise Glück: "Widows"; "Celestial Music"; "The Mirror" (text); "The Mirror" (audio only); "Parable of the Dove"

Jorie Graham: "Masaccio's Expulsion"; "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Dead"; "Salmon"

Mark Doty: "Visitation"; "Lament-Heaven"

Vijay Seshadri: "The Disappearances" & an essay about the poem here.

Linda Gregg: "Summer in a Small Town"; "Sigismundo"; "Let Birds"; "We Manage Most When We Manage Small"

Etheridge Knight: "Feeling Fucked Up"

C. Dale Young: "Torn"; check out this review of the book by Dilruba Ahmed in Kenyon Review here.