Cracking The Spine

This week we discuss the art form of making words into things called poems. Originally the gang is all pretty convinced that it is a crap form, but come to discover that maybe it's awesome? And then Josh and Sean battle, slam-poet style. Can you dig it, Jackson? Music used: Before you Leave by: Honeychurch Books mentioned:The Cure For Dreaming by: Cat WintersDead House by: Dawn KurtagichBream Gives Me Hiccups by: Jesse EisenbergPress Start To Play by: Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph AdamsAbomination by: Gary WhittaThe Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by: Mark TwainThe Aeneid by: Virgil, translation by Robert FaglesDante’s Inferno adapted by: Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders, illustrated by Sandow BirkBeowulf: A Translation And Commentary by: J. R. R. TolkienThe Poems Of Catullus by: Gaius Valerius CatullusWhere The Sidewalk Ends by: Shel Silverstein