Sep 15, 2021
Cookie Hiponia — author, poet, and former lead editor of Destiny 2 and Mass Effect — joins to discuss the social simulation games Stardew Valley & Animal Crossing through the lens of poems about making and giving.
Barbara Jane Reyes, "Track: 'Dahil Sa Iyo,' Pinay
(1998)"
Pablo Neruda, "Ode to My Socks"
Jul 20, 2021
Game critic and narrative designer Michael Lutz joins to discuss Gone Home (Fullbright Games 2013) through the lens of poems about dilapidated homes and their mystique.
Walter de la Mare, "The
Listeners"
Æmilia Lanyer, "The
Description of Cooke-ham"
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PDF
Michael Lutz
Ranged Touch Twitter
& Patreon
Dec 19, 2020
Game developer and poet Shonté Daniels joins to discuss Contra III: The Alien Wars (KONAMI 1992) through the lens of poems about failure, loss, and love under tense circumstances.
Theodore Roethke, "My
Papa's Waltz"
Elizabeth Bishop, "One
Art"
Music copyright by James Chandler Jr
The specialest of...
Mar 30, 2020
Critic Joshua Trevett joins to discuss Bloodborne (FROM Software 2015) through the lens of poems about dreamspace, memory, and the horrors of marriage.
Sylvia Plath, "The Applicant"
Jorge Luis Borges, "Adrogué" (Harold Morland,
trans.)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Waning Moon"
Trucks Podcast
Trucks Episode 57, featuring...
Jan 2, 2020
Poet William Wright joins to discuss Tokyo Jungle (Sony 2012) in conjunction with two poems about extinction, ecology, and the imagination.
James Dickey, "For the Last Wolverine"
Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”
William Wright on Amazon
James Howell, "Blood Ecology"
Music copyright by James...