Uh-Oh Plutonium!

Uh-oh! The queens dish poetry playboys and punk rock goddesses! It's like an episode of Gossip Girl, but make it poetry....

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George Gordon Byron, the 6th Baron Byron, known simply as Lord Byron, was immensely popular during his time. More info about him and his bisexuality can be found here.  You can read Childe Harold's Pilgrimage here.

Lord Byron apparently referred to Wordsworth as “Turdsworth.”

Buffering the Vampire Slayer is a Buffy podcast hosted by Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo. Each episode of the podcast also includes a new original song recapping a separate, glorious Buffy episode.

Anne Waldman’s website is http://www.annewaldman.org. She  has a new book of essays, interviews, letters, and poems entitled Bard, Kinetic (Coffee House Press, 2022).

"UH-OH PLUTONIUM!" can be watched, rewatched, and watched again and again here (~3.5 min).

Read this wonderful profile of Edward Said in the New Yorker.

Juliette Lewis describes how influential Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet was for her in this Spin interview (from 2009).

Plutonium is the element with the highest atomic number to occur in nature.

Watch  Waldman give some advice to young poets here (~3 min).