The soundtrack to today's episode Topics discussed in this episode:-Norman Finkelstein and Restless Messengers -Formal Poet Voltron At Loganberry Books!! Get over here! -Three great things: Literary Matters, 32 Poems, SLEERICKETS-Ma! I'm On Sleerickets!-Pre-12th century Medieval heroic poetry -Chivalry vs. Courtly Love-Slammin the canon-Dante is a sad, strange little man -and Petrarch needs to get a life-The 16th Century Lyric in England by Yvor Winters-Name a more iconic duo (power couple??) than Phil and Fulke. -"Elegy For Philip Sidney" by Fulke Greville-Caelica C by Fulke Greville-Caelica CII by Fulke Greville -Chorus Sacerdotum by Fulke GrevilleSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: -That famous soliliquy-"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus-Inferno Canto XIII-"Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton-The Catechism of the Catholic Church-Prayopavesa-Martyrs, Berserkers, Stoics and Samurai-"The Right To Die" by Paul Laurence Dunbar-"No" by A.M. Juster-"Resume" by Dorothy ParkerSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Poems discussed on this episode include: "Are They Shadows" by Samuel Daniel"To Heaven" by Ben Jonson"The Kraken" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson"Aspecta Medusa" by Dante Gabriel RossettiSonnet VII by George Santayana"Rock and Hawk" by Robinson Jeffers"What Are Years" by Marianne Moore"My Son, My Executioner" by Donald Hall"Drought" by Catherine Chandler (see show transcript for text)"Elegy" by John Dunn SmithSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Mea culpa: Sorry about the little skip in the concluding reading-- don't know why that happened. Text of the poem here. Topics discussed in this episode include: -"In Defense of Reason" by Yvor Winters-"A Winters Tale" on SLEERICKETS-"The Seriousness of Yvor Winters" by David Yezzi-"The Absolutist: Yvor Winters" by Jan Schreiber-"What You Need to Know About Yvor Winters" by James Matthew Wilson (also includes other cool links!)-"Wisdom and Wilderness" by Dick Davis-The morality of poetry and evaluative criticism-The Wintersian legacy-Yes, he really does sound like that-The superiority of the heroic couplet-Flesh, spirit, and sexual-religious vegetables-Love vs. lust-Poems that outlast everlasting love Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:-RIP N. Scott Momaday-Gather ye old buds while ye may-32 Poems-David's new collection, Newly Not Eternal-"Iscariot's Psalm" by George David Clark-Read the earlier version of "Shiversong" here-The 'ol feminine-acephalous combo (we need a real name for this)-Not rhythmic, but METRICAL modulation-"The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens-Job 38-Lear 4:1-"The Need Of Being Versed In Country Things" by Robert Frost-"Boy At The Window" by Richard Wilbur-The Agony In The Garden-"My Prime Of Youth Is But A Frost Of Cares" by Chidiock Tichborne-"Oh no! The rancor!" -Words are straw, and the poem is a scarecrow Text of poem: ShiversongGiven snowThat doesn’t flinchTo throw its poundsThrough heaven inchBy inch, that sowsA billion motesOf chill intoThis ground man can’tDefend; and givenWind that won’tBegin to tellUs how it’s driven,Where it fell from,What it’s meantTo blow and whichProud limbs the cloudsWant riven sinceIt doesn’t dimlyKnow, or evenWhy the howlingWhims have pardonedUs thus far;Given such,It’s hard to watchThe black-eyed scarecrowSome fool left hereMiming careAbove the blightedGarden, thoughTonight he seemsIntent to wrackThe soil and climbThe air, to fly,To crash his flimsyCross againstThe deadpan rancorIn the vastGrim sky. Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Text of poem here (Note: this is an older version, and some lines have changed).  Topics discussed in this episode include:  -My Ryan Wilson episode-My Mark Jarman episode-Ryan's corrections and very gracious explanation-The Contemporary Poetry Review-Jan's wonderfully kooky website -THINK Journal's Critical Path Symposium-The aquastentialist poem-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters-"Le Cimitiere Marin" by Paul Valery-Ukiyo-Ask not for whom the bell buoy tolls-"The Bell Buoy" by Rudyard Kipling-An etiology of sirens-Artist vs. Mystic-"No Man Is An Island" (a sermon excerpt, not a poem) by John Donne-Aware and Aware -De ProfundisSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Text of poem here. Topics discussed in this episode include: -Literary Matters-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot-Buy Ryan's books, including his new collection, "In Ghostlight,"  here-"L'Estraneo" by Ryan Wilson-"On A Baroque Wall Fountain in the Villa Sciarra" by Richard Wilbur-"The Gardens of the Villa D'Este" by Anthony Hecht-"The Venetian Vespers" by Anthony Hecht-"See Naples and Die" by Anthony Hecht -The concept of the labyrinth-"The Stones of Venice" by John Ruskin-The Baudelairian method-The Wordsworthian child archetype-Venice has its reasons-Strategic narrative distance-In a satanic world, rebellion is godly. Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: -"A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts By An Imagiste" by Ezra Pound-A ruinous misunderstanding of meter and music-"Intellectual-emotional complex" and unified sensibility-"The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" by Ernest Fenollosa-The ideogrammatic method-Kiru, Wabi-Sabi, and Mono no Aware (see this fascinating wiki-page on Japanese aesthetics)-"In A Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound-"Fan-Piece For Her Imperial Lord" by Ezra Pound-The Objective Correlative-"Oread" by H.D.-"The Pool" by H.D.-"Des Imagistes" anthology-Vorticism vs. "Amy-gism"-"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams-"This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams-"Arrival" by William Carlos Williams-Expressionist painter Egon Schiele-"The Widow's Lament in Springtime" by William Carlos Williams-Objectivism, Projectivism, Deep Imagism-"The Diver" by Peter Vertacnik, and his book, "The Nature of Things Fragile"Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Mea culpa: Yes, I know "Sailing to Byzantium" was written like 20 years after "Conversion." By the time I realized my anachronism, it was too late. Something something Borges retroactive influence... Topics discussed in this episode include: -Mary Renault's "The King Must Die." -Decadence begets Primitivism-Gauguin, Picasso, Stravinsky-Gustave Kahn and vers libre-T.E. Hulme's essay, Lecture On Modern Poetry-T.E. Hulme's essay, Romanticism and Classicism-Symbolism vs. Imagism-The conservative flavor of 20th century Classicism -Science, Politics, and Gnosticism by Eric Voegelin-Gettin' zesty-Autumn by T.E. Hulme-Conversion by T.E. Hulme-The saga continues...Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: -What is Modernism?-Various dichotomies-The French origins of Modernism-Charles Baudelaire and the Decadent movement-Stephane Mallarme and Symbolism/Impressionism-Eliot, Laforgue, Corbiere, and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"-Hugo vs. Baudelaire-Edgar Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition" and "On the Poetic Principle"-Theophile Gautier's "Emaux et Camees" and Aestheticism-"L'Art" by Theophile Gautier-Parnassianism, pseudo-classicism, and convergent evolution-Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and "Critique of Judgement"-Noumenal vs. Phenomenal-Buddhism and the Four Noble Truths-Arthur Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation"-Interested and Disinterested Pleasure -"Le Vent Froid de la Nuit" by Leconte de Lisle-"The Convergence of the Twain" by Thomas Hardy-"The Eagle" and "The Kraken" by Alfred Lord Tennyson-"La Mort de L'Aigle" by Jose Maria de Heredia-Dinggedicht and Rilke's "Neue Gedichte"-"Schlangen-Beschworung" by Rainer Maria Rilke-"On Naive and Sentimental Poetry" by Friedrich Schiller-The second coming of Parnassianism...Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

View Heredia's, Google's, Anson's, and my version of the poem here.Topics discussed in this episode include:-Order George David Clark's new book, Newly Not Eternal here!-Order John Wall Barger's new book, The Elephant of Silence here! -On the necessity of verse translation, feat. Bob and Paul -Metaphrase and Paraphrase-The Blumov Method of translation-Jacques Barzun's An Essay On French Verse-Romanticism in Realism's clothing-The tyranny of Hugo-Parnassianism and other ideologies of contraction-Buy John Anson's lovely translation of Les Trophees here! Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Text of poem here. Topics discussed in this episode include:-Midlife by Matthew Buckley Smith-The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse by Christopher Childers-Khosrow and Shirin by Dick Davis-In Ghostlight by Ryan Wilson-A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By The Eye by Penelope Pelizzon-The Nature of Things Fragile by Peter Vertacnik-My poem Tlaloc on E-Verse Radio-SLEERICKETS and Versecraft do tragedy, Part I and Part II-Thank you for your sharp ears, Dan Brown! -The Metaphysical vogue-Starting with the man in the mirror-Letting the sunshine in-The (grindcore noises) DUMPSTER OF DEATH Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Mea culpa re line 8: I confusedly combined both possible readings-- this is either acephalous hexameter or first foot anapest iambic pentameter.  Topics discussed in this episode include: -Write to me about classes! -The Error by Don Paterson-Idealism, Nominalism, Transcendental critique-Plato, Plotinus, Ockham, Kant-Paterson's band, Lammas-His many books-Michael Donaghy-Blank Verse by Robert B. Shaw, and the 3 Types-Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil"-Pseudo-Dionysius and the Via Negativa-Plotinus's plenum meets Nagarjuna's vacuum (sunyata)-God as Eclipse (and my episode/poem on this idea)-Auto-martyrdom on Yggdrasil-Beholding the Nothing That Is Text of poem: Phantom VWe come from nothing and return to it. It lends us out to time, and when we liein silent contemplation of the voidthey say we feel it contemplating us. This is wrong, but who could bear the truth.We are ourselves the void in contemplation. We are its only nerve and hand and eye. There is something vast and distant and enthronedwith which you are one and continuous,staring through your mind, staring and staringlike a black sun, constant, silent, radiantwith neither love nor hate nor apathyas we have no human name for its regard. Your thought is the bright shadows that it makes as it plays across the objects of the earthor such icons of them as your mind has forged.The book in sunlight or the tree in rainbursts at its touch into a blaze of signs. But when the mind rests and the dark light stills,the tree will rise untethered to its stationbetween earth and heaven, the open bookturn runic and unreadable again,and if a word then rises to our lips we speak it on behalf of everything. Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Mea culpa: Several times I refer to "Sunlight" as "Sunshine." Blame it on the LSD (which was called "Orange Sunshine"). Text of poem here Topics discussed in this episode include:  -Let me know what you think I should teach!-On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity by John Milton-The Gas Poker by Thom Gunn-The Movement-Syllabics as gateway drug-Lucy In the Sky With Demanding Forms-Thom Gunn, Renaissance man-Golding's Metamorphoses-Philosophical religions-A cursory and woefully incomplete history of Platonism-Adonais by that son-of-a-Bysshe Percy Shelley-An Essay On Man by Alexander Pope-Plato's Symposium (see the famous Diotima section)-Christmas Day 2023 was the day I learned the sun was green-Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens -A song of experience in search of deeper innocenceSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Text of poem here.Topics discussed in this episode include:-The universecraft -Shout out to the Aussies!-Tim Tams SLAM, y'all-Alice Allan, Poetry Says, and our episode on Gwen Harwood-The Australian Augustans: Hope, McAuley, Stewart-Paul Valery's "Le Cimitiere Marin"-Tertius paeon reviewed-The ocean motif, and my episodes on JMW's Through the Water and Yezzi's Mother Carey's Hen-Quickness, Fastness-Why graveyards are killer -In Soviet Russia, bones wear YOU.-The jack-o-lanterns of our labor-Love as the light upon the waters of deathSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Songs discussed in The Rainbow Mythos include: Tarot Woman (lyrics here)Rainbow Eyes (lyrics here)Catch The Rainbow (lyrics here)The Man On The Silver Mountain (lyrics here)The Temple Of The King (lyrics here)Stargazer (lyrics here)A Light In The Black (lyrics here) Topics discussed include:Brian Brodeur's new book, Some Problems With AutobiographyKatie Hartsock's new book, Wolf TreesMy episode on Brian BrodeurPoetry lyric vs. Song lyricPoetic vs. MythopoeticC.S. Lewis on George MacdonaldJuke-box musicalsA brief history of the mighty DioAn Angel Is Missing by Ronnie and the RedcapsElf, Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Ritchie BlackmoreBlack Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & HellThe rainbow motifThe myth of IcarusThe tragedy of civilizationThe wheel keeps turningSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Text of poem here Topics discussed in this episode include: -Romanticism, Modernism, and The Lyric-Defining ourselves against the vices of our age-Historical problems with Lyric-Modernism as pharmakon-T.S. Eliot's essay, Andrew Marvell-T.S. Eliot's essay, The Metaphysical Poets-Marvell's Horatian Ode-Marvell's Country House poem, Upon Appleton House-Marvell's "Collige, Virgo, Rosas" or "Carpe Diem" poem, To His Coy Mistress-Paradise Lost -An anatomy of Marvell's style-La Corona by John Donne (my episode on Donne here)-A Wreath by George Herbert (my episode on Herbert here)-Stichic vs. Strophic-On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost by Marvell-The selfish heart of the artist-The Faerie Queene -Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins-The terrifying prodigality of God Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Text of poem here Topics discussed in this episode include:-The Stafford Challenge-The Kiowa people-Frederick Goddard Tuckerman-Winters and Bowers-"The Death Of Sitting Bear"-"House Made Of Dawn"-"The Way To Rainy Mountain"-The Native American Renaissance-Mixed meter, mixed KINDS of meter-Remember, catalexis = without final unaccented syllable (opposite of acephaly)-The inadequacy of language-How should we mourn?-The anecdote of the goose-The Most Of It by Robert Frost-The Conference of the Birds by Farrad Ud-din Attar (translated by Dick Davis!)-Pythagorean mysticism-The Tyger by William Blake -You have to feel it to believe it-The poet's task Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Text of poem here Mea culpa: When I said "fearful," I meant "fearsome"L'esprit d'escalier: "Above the boneyard burn its golden eyes" has a similar euphony to Donne's famous: "A bracelet of bright hair about the bone." Topics discussed in this episode include:-Anthony Hecht's new Collected Poems, edited by Philip Hoy-David Yezzi's new biography of Hecht, Late Romance-The caprice of the canon-Frost, Hawthorne, and Puritan allegory-"Dramatic" line breaks-Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath-The diction of the male gaze-The Sleerickets episodes (Part 1 and Part 2) with myself, Matthew, and Alice on Hecht's essay, "The Pathetic Fallacy."-Sextod-Sin as the mother of death (see Paradise Lost)-Sex as prayer-The connotations of magnesium-Leda and the Swan by W.B. Yeats-A Barred Owl by Richard Wilbur-The symbology of owls-What fell beast is this?-Edificiary chakras-Hughes the murderous crowSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

Text of poem here.Mea culpa: Please read "tercets" for "triplets" Topics discussed in this episode include: -J.V. Cunningham (see my episode on him here)-The Tribe of Ben (Jonson)-Check out Dan's books here!-The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets-Accentual or Accentual-Syllabic?-Macro-rhythmic modulation-The soul of wit?-My episode on Emily Dickinson-God Is Dead!-The Lascaux cave paintings-Genesis 2:7-Allegory of the Cave 101-The cry of Sex-Birth-Grief-Ecclesiastes-Voltaire (who was actually not an atheist, but a deist)-"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis-"Is Theology Poetry?"  by C.S. LewisSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)