{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Fire the Canon","title":"The Life and Times of Jack Gilbert: Have a Something Day","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/58286c2d\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5127,"description":"This week, in honor of (belated) National Poetry Month, we present to you the adorable and magnificent life of Jackie's favorite dead poet, Jack Gilbert, who beat out at least three other poets for this honor due to being Not Boring or Racist.\nRachel has an important announcement you will wait a long time for. Bekah's favorite poet is Howard Stern. Jackie edits a Wikipedia page repeatedly and then gives up. Nikita is here in spirit but not in form.\nTopics include: Clerical errors, circus hijinks, an autosomal dominant family history of falling from great heights, Sean Lennon, bhangra dancing, being forced to try out for a musical, Allen Ginsberg not liking Allen Ginsberg's poetry, angels dictating poems to mere mortals, Beat poets blowing it, a thorax exoskeleton designed for European adventure, ants in saucepans, hairs in avocado plants, maybe being married and maybe not, the importance of not having a nothing day, and of course, weird porn that no one had to make but made anyway.\nSources:\nJack Gilbert - Wikipedia\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Gilbert\n\nThe Ghost Inside: A Profile of Jack Gilbert - by Sarah Manguso https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/68485/the-ghost-inside\n\nThe Jack Gilbert Papers: Emory University Libraries\nhttps://archives.libraries.emory.edu/repositories/7/resources/2748\n\nJack Gilbert - Poets.org\nhttps://poets.org/poet/jack-gilbert#tabbed-content\nMy Mother Taught Me: A Poet’s Misadventures in Erotica - by Dan Piepenbring\nhttps://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/02/18/my-mother-taught-me/#more-82843\nJack Gilbert, The Art of Poetry No. 91, interviewed by Sarah Fay - The Paris Review\nhttps://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5583/the-art-of-poetry-no-91-jack-gilbert\n\nA Review of Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert - by Sarah Manguso\nhttps://www.thebeliever.net/jack-gilberts-refusing-heaven/\nThe 'Stubborn Gladness' of Elizabeth Gilbert's Favorite Poet - by Joe Fassler...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ThbUCisdeEy3wffCIV0lqYlIfJsLXgCjMQ9ORkg9uZE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5NDcyLzE2NDg2/NzQyODgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}