Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Today we're reviewing Milo Prather / Milo Winter's new poetry collection 'Alterlife'.

Sources and Further Reading:
Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism - Bill Schutt [Book]
amzn.to/45dyBSI
Second Estrangement - Aracelis Girmay poetryfoundation.org/poems/141993/second-estrangement
I Wish I Could Remember That First Day - Christina Rossetti
poetryfoundation.org/poems/50500/i-wish-i-could-remember-that-first-day
Filial Cannibalism - Warsan Shire (from the book 'Bless the daughter raised by a voice in her head')
Sonnet 59 - Corina Copp poetryfoundation.org/poems/58179/sonnet-59
Medusa Calls The Rape Crisis Line - Cassandra Myers arcpoetry.ca/editorials/medusa-calls-rape-crisis-line

0:00 Intro: Milo Hasn't Found His Voice
3:32 The Key Issues
9:27 Poem 1: Scarification
20:07 Poem 2: Eat My Young
33:23 Poem 3: Lean Into
35:57 Poem 4: Musings of the Christmas Past
41:24 Poem 5: Storytelling


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