{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Drunk as a Poet on Payday","title":"Matthew Buckley Smith","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3481,"description":"Today's guest is Matthew Buckley Smith, whose new book, Midlife, won the 2021 Richard Wilbur Poetry Award, and is out from Measure Press. He is also the author of Dirge for an Imaginary World, which won the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His poems and stories have appeared in AGNI, American Life in Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Poetry, Cincinnati Review, Fairy Tale Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, Subtropics, and Threepenny Review. \n\nHe also hosts a terrific podcast of his own—Sleerickets—a podcast about “poetry and other intractable problems” as he calls it. It’s a smart and in-depth look at poetry and the poetry world and is absolutely worth giving a listen to. \n\nPick up a copy of Midlife here.\nRead more about Matthew Buckley Smith.\nListen to Sleerickets. (Also, subscribe to the Secret Show!)\n\nSubscribe to the show's Substack newsletter!\nhttps://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/\nSay hi to us online:\nWebsite: http://drunkasapoet.com\nInstagram: @drunkasapoetonpayday\nBlueSky: https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social\nTikTok: @jgraypoet","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ph8M_T1CAbD6Lrye3wVf-1FMrZ-oIceHje6jbbt1_xE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ0Njc0LzE3MTAx/Mzg0MjctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}