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This week we discuss the art form of making words into things called poems. Originally the gang is all pretty convinced that it is a crap form, but come to discover that maybe it's awesome? And then Josh and Sean battle, slam-poet style. Can you dig it, Jackson?

 

Music used: Before you Leave by: Honeychurch

 

Books mentioned:

The Cure For Dreaming by: Cat Winters

Dead House by: Dawn Kurtagich

Bream Gives Me Hiccups by: Jesse Eisenberg

Press Start To Play by: Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams

Abomination by: Gary Whitta

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by: Mark Twain

The Aeneid by: Virgil, translation by Robert Fagles

Dante’s Inferno adapted by: Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders, illustrated by Sandow Birk

Beowulf: A Translation And Commentary by: J. R. R. Tolkien

The Poems Of Catullus by: Gaius Valerius Catullus

Where The Sidewalk Ends by: Shel Silverstein