Fum*ble*cunk: Victorian Slang

What nanty narking our Reginas have with some slang from the Victorian era. 

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. 

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Show Notes:

Marilyn Nelson's poem in The New Yorker that Aaron was thinking of is "Pigeon and Hawk."

Poets we mention include (with a poem by each):

Marie Howe

Cleopatra Mathis

Linda Gregg

Lucie Brock-Broido

Adrienne Rich

Yvor Winters

Frank O'Hara

Anna Akhmatova

Lynn Melnick

Mary Jo Bang

Jean Valentines, "Ghost Elephants"

Larry Levis and Aaron's poem "Elegy" which references Levis's "The Smell of the Sea"

James Merrill

Brenda Hillman

Richard Howard

Shaon Olds

Henry David Thoreau

Laura Kasischke

Lucille Clifton

Aracelis Girmay

Kenneth Koch

Rupi Kaur

Jacques J. Rancourt

Terrance Hayes