Season 2 Episode 2 Poetry and Video Games

Kate and Michael gather at the table to discuss the balancing act that is pop-culture inspired poetry, niche communities, astronaut diapers, and Jamison Crabtree’s poem, “a manual for all of your collisions,” a video game inspired poem from a poet who is definitely smarter than they are. 


co starring 

Kate Hanson Foster

Michael Schmeltzer

Featuring every possible interruption ever (except Bert)


Special thanks to the sponsors of this episode: 


Just Monika

Astronaut diapers

Anxiety-Inducing Pacman

Imploding AWP Panels 

Michael’s high-pitched squeal at 17 minutes and 02 seconds 

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Links to work mentioned in this episode: 


“a manual for all of your collisions” by Jamison Crabtree https://cartridgelit.com/2015/06/03/we-replaced-the-universe-with-many-tiny-things-and-other-poems/


“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art


“In the Waiting Room of the Dell Children’s Hospital CF Clinic at Age 40” http://thecoachellareview.com/two-poems-by-bree-a-rolfe/