SLEERICKETS

By Matthew Buckley Smith

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Episodes: 280

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Welcome to SLEERICKETS, a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.


Episode Date
Ep 259: We’re Not Avocados, ft. Alexis & Joanna
Aug 14, 2026
Ep 258: Listener Crit #13
Aug 09, 2026
Ep 257: Situation Normal All Fucked Up, ft. Katie Dozier
Aug 02, 2026
Ep 256: The Giant Crab
Jul 25, 2026
Ep 255: Snake Eyes, ft. Measureless, Pt. 1
Jul 25, 2026
Ep 254: What You Don’t Know You Know, ft. Timothy Green, Pt. 1
Jul 11, 2026
Ep 253: A Little-Known, Much-Hated Poet
Jul 04, 2026
Ep 252: Advice from an Unknown Poet Wrap Party, Pt. 1
Jun 28, 2026
Ep 251: Maybe This Time, ft. Alan Shapiro
Jun 20, 2026
Ep 250: Listener Crit #12
Jun 12, 2026
Ep 249: We Hogs Need This, Pt. 1
Jun 05, 2026
Ep 248: The Montreal Fiasco, ft. Ernest Hilbert, Pt. 1
May 29, 2026
Ep 247: Listener Crit #11
May 23, 2026
Ep 246: A Case for Didactic Poetry, ft. Daniel Cowper, Pt. 1
May 16, 2026
Ep 245: The Tuna Incident, ft. Nida Sophasarun
May 09, 2026
Ep 244: Possible Horrible Truth, Pt. 1
May 03, 2026
Ep 243: Literary Matters 18.2
Apr 26, 2026
Ep 242: Not the Greatest Time to Be a Poet, ft. Horace & Friends, Pt. 1
Apr 19, 2026
Ep 241: A Serious House
Apr 11, 2026
Ep 240: AMA #3, Pt. 1
Apr 02, 2026
INTRODUCING Advice from an Unknown Poet
Mar 26, 2026
Ep 239: Listener Crit #10
Mar 21, 2026
Ep 238: AWP 2026
Mar 13, 2026
Ep 237: If it doesn’t taste good, you can’t serve it
Mar 03, 2026
Ep 236: Listener Crit #9
Mar 03, 2026
Ep 235: Romanticon Now, ft. Paul Franz & Elijah Perseus Blumov, Pt. 1
Feb 21, 2026
Ep 234: Midlife Show-and-Tell, ft. Katie Dozier
Feb 15, 2026
Ep 233: In Fair Verona
Feb 06, 2026
Ep 232: Mr Bones, ft. Shane McCrae
Jan 31, 2026
Ep 231: Insidious Tendencies, ft. Steven Searcy
Jan 25, 2026
Ep 230: The Christian Poetry Shell Game
Jan 18, 2026
Ep 229: Art Sex Drugs Food
Jan 11, 2026
Ep 228: Bad Poet Fight
Jan 05, 2026
Ep 227: A Particularly Scottish Conversation, ft. Niall Campbell
Dec 29, 2025
Ep 226: Dearly Beloved
Dec 21, 2025
Ep 225: Listener Crit #8
Dec 12, 2025
Ep 224: Broadway Omnibus
Dec 06, 2025
Ep 223: Dowsing Rods & Decoder Rings
Nov 26, 2025
Ep 222: Poetry Voice Classic, ft. Jonathan Farmer
Nov 21, 2025
Ep 221: ALSCW 2025
Nov 15, 2025
Ep 220: Big in Romania, ft. Versecraft
Nov 06, 2025
Ep 219: Listener Crit #7
Nov 01, 2025
Ep 218: Fair Play
Oct 24, 2025
Ep 217: Atheist Sip & Paint, Pt. 1
Oct 19, 2025
Ep 216: Tall Orders
Oct 11, 2025
Ep 215: The Old Criterion
Oct 04, 2025
Ep 214: Serious Bad Catholic, ft. Steve Knepper, Pt. 1
Sep 28, 2025
Ep 213: Listener Crit #5
Sep 21, 2025
Ep 212: Girls! Girls! Girls! ft. Alexis Sears & Joanna Pearson
Sep 14, 2025
Ep 211: Literary Matters 18.1
Sep 06, 2025
Ep 210: Middle-Aged Witches, Pt. 1, ft. Versecraft & The Flummoxed
Aug 29, 2025
Ep 209: Hybrid Vigor, ft. Derek Mong, Pt. 1
Aug 24, 2025
Ep 208: Password to the Ghost World, Pt. 1
Aug 13, 2025
Ep 207: Wild Ernestness, Pt. 1, ft. Jonathan Farmer
Aug 06, 2025
Ep 206: Feels Good While It’s Happening, ft. Matt Wall
Aug 01, 2025
Ep 205: Ascending Orders of Meaninglessness
Jul 26, 2025
Ep 204: Darkness Audible
Jul 19, 2025
Ep 203: Gateway Drugs, ft. Mark Leidner, Pt. 1
Jul 12, 2025
Ep 202: Listener Crit #3
Jul 03, 2025
Ep 201: I Am My Shelf of Books, ft. Brad Leithauser, Pt. 1
Jun 29, 2025
Ep 200: The Neck Tattoo
Jun 21, 2025
Ep 199: Only Bad Poems, ft. moonandmouth
Jun 14, 2025
Ep 198: Shark Week, Pt. 1
Jun 05, 2025
Ep 197: Insulting Everybody’s Dad, Pt. 1
May 30, 2025
Ep 196: It’s Always Today, ft. Philip Metres, Pt. 1
May 25, 2025
Ep 195: The White Guy Publishing Vortex, ft. Ethan McGuire, Pt. 1
May 18, 2025
Secret Show Ep 144: Listener Crit #2
May 13, 2025
Ep 194: Listener Crit #1
May 12, 2025
Ep 193: A Big-Handed Beautiful Woman
May 04, 2025
Ep 192: Turn Out Your Pockets
Apr 24, 2025
Ep 191: Closing Time at the Horse & Groom, ft. Tristram Fane Saunders, Pt. 1
Apr 17, 2025
Ep 190: One-Peacoat Poetics
Apr 08, 2025
Ep 189: The Walcott Scandal, ft. Jonathan Farmer, Pt. 1
Apr 02, 2025
Ep 188: Counseling Out, Pt. 1
Mar 27, 2025
Ep 187: This Was Poetry, ft. Versecraft, Pt. 1
Mar 22, 2025
Ep 186: A QWERTYUIOP of the Mind
Mar 16, 2025
Ep 185: Don’t Drown, ft. Naomi Kanakia, Pt. 1
Mar 08, 2025
Ep 184: Chaos Reigns, Pt. 1
Feb 25, 2025
Ep 183: The Icy Élysée, ft. Alan Shapiro, Pt.1
Feb 21, 2025
Ep 182: Cherchez la femme
Feb 14, 2025
Ep 181: Against Sticks-&-Stones-ism
Feb 06, 2025
Ep 180: AMA 2025, Pt. 1
Jan 31, 2025
Ep 179: Hill’s Last Lecture, ft. Versecraft, Pt. 1
Jan 21, 2025
Ep 178: All the Supposedly Wonderful Poetry, ft. Jonathan Farmer
Jan 15, 2025
Ep 177: Alice & Elijah vs. the Abyss, ft. Versecraft, Pt. 1
Jan 07, 2025
Ep 176: A disaster that never arrives, Pt. 1
Jan 01, 2025
Ep 175: What Voice Is, ft. Jonathan Farmer, Pt. 1
Dec 26, 2024
Ep 174: The Losing Position, Pt. 1
Dec 20, 2024
Ep 173: Swart Verse, ft. A. E. Stallings, Pt. 1
Dec 15, 2024
Ep 172: Less Human Than Human, Pt. 1
Dec 06, 2024
Ep 171: Into the Black
Nov 27, 2024
Ep 170: New Advances in Quitting Poetry, ft. Versecraft
Nov 22, 2024
Ep 169: Thunder & Rain
Nov 12, 2024
Ep 168: What Are Houses For?, ft. James Haverty Smith
Nov 06, 2024
Ep 167: Poetry Magazine, October 2024, Pt. 1
Oct 30, 2024
Ep 166: Three Bird Mafia, ft. Jonathan Farmer
Oct 23, 2024
Ep 165: The Mountain Pass, ft. Philip Metres, Pt. 1
Oct 15, 2024
Ep 164: The Quiet Part
Oct 07, 2024
Ep 163: How Racist Is Creative Writing?, ft. Alexis Sears & Joanna Pearson
Sep 30, 2024
Ep 162: The Train There’s No Getting Off, ft. Derek Mong
Sep 19, 2024
Ep 161: Handbook for the Recently Deceased Poet
Sep 07, 2024
Ep 160: Part of the Problem
Aug 31, 2024
Ep 159: For F***’s Sake Finally, ft. Versecraft
Aug 25, 2024
Ep 158: Revision & the Individual Talent, ft. Katie Hartsock
Aug 15, 2024
Ep 157: The A**h***’s Gambit
Aug 02, 2024
Ep 156: Greater Metropolitan Shaltador, ft. Victoria Moul
Jul 26, 2024
Ep 155: Furious Marginalia, ft. Christopher Childers, Pt. 1
Jul 13, 2024
Ep 154: Cleveland Roundtable
Jul 13, 2024
Ep 153: C’est moi
Jun 28, 2024
Ep 152: Back in Your Head
Jun 21, 2024
UNLOCKED: AMA #1, Pt. 2
Jun 16, 2024
UNLOCKED: AMA #1, Pt. 1
Jun 16, 2024
UNLOCKED: Shane McCrae Interview, Pt. 3
Jun 09, 2024
UNLOCKED: Shane McCrae Interview, Pt. 2
Jun 09, 2024
REPOST: Shane McCrae Interview, Pt. 1
Jun 09, 2024
UNLOCKED Secret Show Ep: Paging Dr. Platzmouth
Jun 01, 2024
UNLOCKED Secret Show Ep: Give up, Dash
May 24, 2024
UNLOCKED Secret Show Ep: Bat Sh*t
May 17, 2024
Ep 151: The Sand Trap
May 11, 2024
Ep 150: Against Literary Citizenship, ft. Only Poems
Apr 27, 2024
Ep 149: Owls in the Desert
Apr 19, 2024
Ep 148: Tell Me You’re Not Starting a Reading Series, ft. Ernie Hilbert
Apr 12, 2024
Ep 147: The Sears & Pearson Dope Chill School for Wack Daughters, ft. Alexis & Joanna
Apr 06, 2024
Ep 146: How Gay Was Shakespeare?
Mar 29, 2024
Ep 145: Listen, Eavesdroppers, ft. Jonathan Farmer
Mar 24, 2024
Ep 144: 32 Poems, No. 42, Winter 2024
Mar 17, 2024
Ep 143: The Problems of Three Little People
Mar 08, 2024
Ep 142: Burn After Weaving
Mar 02, 2024
Ep 141: Placebo Workshop
Feb 23, 2024
Ep 140: Demography Bee
Feb 15, 2024
Ep 139: Shooting the Butterfly
Feb 09, 2024
Ep 138: Midlife, ft. Michael Buckly-Smith (sp?)
Feb 01, 2024
Ep 137: Slaying Time
Jan 24, 2024
Ep 136: Darker
Jan 19, 2024
Ep 135: The Most Embarrassing Episode
Jan 12, 2024
Ep 134: Omnibusted
Jan 06, 2024
Ep 133: We Shadows, Pt. 1
Dec 30, 2023
Ep 132: Intermittent Positive Reinforcement
Dec 22, 2023
Ep 131: Big Picture-ism
Dec 13, 2023
Ep 130: Creative Non-Nonfiction
Dec 07, 2023
Ep 129: We Must Not Say So, ft. Andrew Wittstadt, Pt. 1
Dec 02, 2023
Ep 128: First Thought Sexiest Thought
Nov 23, 2023
Ep 127: The Mercy Rule, Pt. 1
Nov 17, 2023
Ep 126: Sassy Kids, ft. Alexis Sears, Pt. 1
Oct 13, 2023
Ep 125: The Reheater of Memories
Oct 04, 2023
Ep 124: Jesus Envy, Pt. 1
Sep 29, 2023
Ep 123: Come Back, Bill
Sep 20, 2023
Ep 122: The Sore Thumb Crisis, ft. Ernie Hilbert, Pt. 1
Sep 14, 2023
Ep 121: Fetal Poppy Syndrome, Pt. 1
Sep 07, 2023
Ep 120: Picking Up the Phone, ft. Dr. Taylor Byas
Aug 31, 2023
Ep 119: Hard Cases, ft. Emmalea Russo, Pt. 1
Aug 26, 2023
Ep 118: Obvious Boobies, ft. Ashley Anna McHugh, Pt. 1
Aug 16, 2023
Ep 117: 0 Days Since Last Cry
Aug 10, 2023
Ep 116: We All Have Dick Blood on Our Hands
Aug 03, 2023
Ep 115: Outrageous Nonsense
Jul 01, 2023
BONUS: The Bros of Yesteryear
Jun 27, 2023
Ep 114: The Manliness of Men, ft. Derek Mong, Pt. 1
Jun 22, 2023
Ep 113: Jiminy Rickets, ft. Shane McCrae, Pt. 1
Jun 16, 2023
Ep 112: LIVE NUDE POEM$, ft. Matt Wall
Jun 09, 2023
Ep 111: The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Manifesto
Jun 02, 2023
Ep 110: Both Sides Eventually, ft. Alexis Sears
May 25, 2023
Ep 109: Dog Wedding, ft. Alexis Sears
May 18, 2023
Ep 108: Getting It Wrong
May 10, 2023
Ep 107: Another Dark Forest
May 06, 2023
Ep 106: A Winters Tale, Pt. 1, ft. Elijah Blumov
Apr 26, 2023
Ep 105: Les Enfants Sour Patch
Apr 19, 2023
Ep 104: Tough-Guy Night at the Poetry Bar
Apr 13, 2023
Ep 103: Most Excellent Schmancy, ft. Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
Apr 07, 2023
Ep 102: Cosmic Drop Bear Pt. 1, ft. Elijah Perseus Blumov
Mar 30, 2023
BONUS: The Masturbuilders Pt. 1, ft. Jimmy Smith
Mar 27, 2023
Ep 101: Lucky Ruins, ft. Stephen Marche
Mar 23, 2023
Ep 100: Poetry Is Not a Thing
Mar 15, 2023
Ep 99: The Arthur C. Brooks Distinguished Professor of 4 Secrets to Happiness
Mar 09, 2023
Ep 98: Meaning What? Pt. 2
Mar 04, 2023
Ep 97: Meaning What? Pt. 1
Mar 02, 2023
Ep 96: We Love You Get Up Pt. 1, ft. Brian Brodeur
Feb 23, 2023
Ep 95: The Great Indoor Fight
Feb 16, 2023
Ep 94: Ice-Nine Time, ft. Austin Allen
Feb 10, 2023
Ep 93: Intellectual Cooties
Feb 01, 2023
Ep 92: The Good Word, ft. Philip Metres
Jan 26, 2023
Ep 91: We’re Dying, Mate
Jan 19, 2023
Ep 90: Neo-Georgian Hellscape
Jan 12, 2023
Ep 89: Blood & Big Dicks
Jan 04, 2023
Ep 88: Class Outside
Dec 29, 2022
Ep 87: Death of a Goldfish, ft. Jonathan Farmer
Dec 20, 2022
Ep 86: Rankine v. Hoagland Revisited
Dec 15, 2022
Ep 85: Dying Is Easy
Dec 15, 2022
Ep 84: Ask Richard Pryor, ft. John Dilworth
Dec 01, 2022
Ep 83: Dumb Colonialist Baby
Nov 23, 2022
Ep 82: The Statue of Responsibility
Nov 17, 2022
Ep 81: The Eliza Effect, ft. Carmine Starnino
Nov 10, 2022
Ep 80: The Marathon, ft. Skyzoo
Nov 10, 2022
Ep 79: French Fries & Urine Pt. 1, ft. Matt Wall
Oct 26, 2022
Ep 78: I’m Charlemagne, ft. Amit Majmudar
Oct 20, 2022
Ep 77: The Flophouse
Oct 12, 2022
Ep 76: Fake Winners & Sore Losers
Oct 05, 2022
Ep 75: A Good But Stupid Place
Sep 28, 2022
Ep 74: Nonviolent Femmes
Sep 21, 2022
Ep 73: Let’s Get Difficult, Pt. 2
Sep 14, 2022
Ep 72: Let’s Get Difficult, Pt. 1
Sep 07, 2022
Ep 71: How to Get Banned from Poetry Free-for-All
Aug 31, 2022
Ep 70: Tomato Fight
Aug 24, 2022
Ep 69: One F***ing Poem
Aug 17, 2022
Ep 68: Something Stinkier
Aug 17, 2022
Ep 67: The Hastily Assembled Podcast*
Aug 17, 2022
Ep 66: Emotional Slapstick
Aug 17, 2022
Ep 65: In the limelight cuz I rhyme tight
Jul 20, 2022
Ep 64: The Rabbit Hole, Pt. 1
Jul 13, 2022
Ep 63: Sex World vs. Money World, ft. Andrew Palmer
Jul 06, 2022
Ep 62: The Pervy Irishman Blues
Jun 29, 2022
BONUS: A History of Everything, Including Y’all
Jun 27, 2022
Ep 61: The One with Brad Listi
Jun 22, 2022
BONUS: The Presbyterian Goodnight
Jun 13, 2022
Ep 60: Too Many Manifestos
Jun 08, 2022
Ep 59: The Martinez Debarkle, ft. Cameron Clark
Jun 01, 2022
Ep 58: Never-Never Land, ft. David Yezzi
May 25, 2022
Ep 57: Selling Out!
May 18, 2022
Ep 56: Whoa-Neat-Fact-Man Poems
May 11, 2022
BONUS: Brian Hates Poetry Month
Apr 30, 2022
Ep 54: NaGriftDocoMo, ft. Alice Allan
Apr 28, 2022
Ep 53: Beauty & Revenge, ft. Mark McGuinness
Apr 21, 2022
Ep 52: Singsongy Chimey Doggerel, ft. Joshua Mehigan
Apr 13, 2022
Ep 51: On Being Asked to Write a Yoga Poem, ft. Alice Allan
Apr 07, 2022
BONUS: Everything in Me Wants to Disagree
Apr 04, 2022
BONUS: The Least Jewish Sitcom
Apr 01, 2022
Ep 50: Tiered Rejection Purgatory
Mar 30, 2022
Ep 49: Handsome People Can Be Sad, ft. David Kern
Mar 23, 2022
BONUS: A Million Crunches
Mar 17, 2022
Ep 48: Crying Emoji, Fire Emoji, ft. Amit Majmudar
Mar 16, 2022
Ep 47: Debasement Party, ft. Cameron Clark
Mar 10, 2022
BONUS: The Girls’ Guide to Hunting & Fishing, ft. The Pearson Sisters
Mar 09, 2022
Ep 46: Everything I Have to Say Is F***ing B******t, ft. Alice Allan
Mar 02, 2022
Ep 45: My Amanda Gorman Thing, ft. Alexis Sears
Feb 23, 2022
BONUS: Eyes Don’t Close!
Feb 19, 2022
Ep 44: Sexual Quanta, ft. Traci O’Dea
Feb 16, 2022
Ep 43: Two Gloves I Have
Feb 09, 2022
BONUS: Big Fat Hypotheticals
Feb 05, 2022
Ep 42: A Range of Concerning Behaviors, ft. Kathleen Jones
Feb 02, 2022
Ep 41: All Styles Welcome, ft. Austin Allen
Jan 26, 2022
Ep 40: Here's What I Wish You Would Read, ft. Mary Jo Salter
Jan 19, 2022
BONUS: Homer-Style, ft. Alice Allan
Jan 14, 2022
Ep 39: Handsome Cool Dudes, ft. Alice Allan
Jan 12, 2022
Ep 38: Your Time Has Come, ft. Jeff Colosino
Jan 05, 2022
Ep 37: Seize the Dayquil
Dec 30, 2021
Ep 36: Hell Yeah, ft. JP Gritton
Dec 23, 2021
Ep 35: Bad Things
Dec 15, 2021
Ep 34: Hell Is Other Writers, ft. Brian Platzer
Dec 08, 2021
Ep 33: Pudding Day
Dec 01, 2021
Ep 32: Poets Without Poems, ft. Sam Riviere
Nov 24, 2021
Ep 31: Poetry+, ft. Jonathan Farmer
Nov 17, 2021
Ep 30: Letters to a Middle-Aged Poet, ft. Alice Allan
Nov 10, 2021
Ep 29: The Fifth Wall, ft. Joanna Pearson
Nov 03, 2021
Ep 28: Unobjectionable Title Here
Oct 28, 2021
Ep 27: Baker’s Poetry, ft. Alice Allan
Oct 20, 2021
Ep 26: Death’s Second Selfie
Oct 13, 2021
Ep 25: Metaphorical Gal, ft. Brian Platzer
Oct 06, 2021
Ep 24: Musée des NSFW Arts
Sep 29, 2021
Ep 23: Rhymes Without Beats, ft. James Nguyen
Sep 22, 2021
Ep 22: The Truth Is Probably Not Out There
Sep 15, 2021
Ep 21: A Dirty Thing for Boys, ft. Steve Teare
Sep 08, 2021
Ep 20: Shop like a Poet
Sep 01, 2021
Ep 19: The Realish Thing, ft. Brian Platzer
Aug 25, 2021
Ep 18: We All Die Together
Aug 18, 2021
Ep 17: A Poem-Shaped Void
Aug 11, 2021
Ep 16: Rhino Horn, Diamonds & Meth, ft. Shashi Bhat
Aug 04, 2021
Ep 15: How Not to Write About Poetry
Jul 29, 2021
Ep 14: M*****f****r of the Arts
Jul 21, 2021
Ep 13: Against Hope
Jul 14, 2021
Ep 12: Two or Three Taboos
Jul 07, 2021
Ep 11: Twitter v. Poetry
Jun 30, 2021
Ep 10: Debunking Kafka, ft. Austin Allen
Jun 23, 2021
Ep 9: Thou Shalt Not Jazz June
Jun 16, 2021
Ep 8: Prodigal Dad, ft. Traci O’Dea
Jun 09, 2021
Ep 7: My love is like a red red grawlix
Jun 02, 2021
Ep 6: There Are Some Things We Just Don’t Talk About
May 26, 2021
Ep 5: Ars Foetica
May 19, 2021
Ep 4: Six Intros, No Show
May 12, 2021
Ep 3: Poetry is the worst
May 05, 2021
Ep 2: Poem cures COVID!
Apr 27, 2021
Ep 1: That Poetry Voice
Apr 27, 2021