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February 17, 2025 29 mins

Get out your UV lights & swabs--the queens play a game that fuses poems, then guess the poetic DNA samples. Then we spark up a fusion of a different strain!

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SHOW NOTES:

Watch Jools Lebron get mindful and demure here, diva

Don't soak tampons in vodka. 

Poems we discuss in the episode include:

Philip Levine's "Bitterness"

Laura Kasischke's "Champagne"

Kay Ryan's "Shark's Teeth"

Kenneth Koch's "One Train May Hide Another"

Annie Finch's "Wild Yeasts"

Dorothea Lasky's "Toast to my friend or why Friendship is the best kind of Love"

Danusha Laméris's "Bonfire Opera"

Marie Ponsot's "Among Women"

Tina Chang's "God Country"

Campbell McGrath's "Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas"

Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"

W.B. Yeats's "Leda and the Swan"

Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Windhover"

Anne Sexton's "Jesus Awake" & "Wanting to Die

Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" & "I, Too"

Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps

And Beyonce's "You Won't Break My Soul [Queens Remix]," in which she sampled Madonna's song "Vogue," returning it to the culture where it rightly belongs.

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