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Read this essay on Substack!Order my new chapbook here! Topics discussed in this episode include:-Frost Farm and the new generation of metricians -The Necklace of Harmonia and Against Oblivion-The musical caesura-"Uriel" by Ralph Waldo Emerson-Ouroboros, yin-yang thinking-"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" by Wallace Stevens-The transcendental imagination-Dante's ParadisoSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read the essay here! -"L'Envoi" by Herman Melville-"Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century" by Melville-"Clarel" by Melville-"Moby-Dick" by Melville-"The Maldive Shark" by Melville-"The Confidence Man" by Melville-"Timoleon" by Melville-Gnostics, Cathars, and Bogomils-Dualisms, Persian, French, and Indian-White Symbolism: Lightning and the Whale-Ahab's inverted Zoroastrianism-cum-Gnosticism-The Ophites and Leviathan-"Gnostic Mythos in Moby-Dick" by Thomas Vargish-"Timaeus" by Plato-"Historical and Critical Dictionary" by Pierre Bayle-The Wintersian "post-symbolist" poem-Reconciling with the squaliform demiurgeSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 for the confusion-- of course I DID end up giving a recap of my adventures. Read this essay on Substack!-Travel details mentioned: the Haar, Alfred Janniot, the Musee Branly, the museums in Nancy, Spinoza's homes-Friends mentioned: Cameron Clark, David Klug, Niall Campbell, Gerry Cambridge, Victoria Moul-The Movement and the New Lines anthology-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold-Thomistic aesthetics-The constructive, authorial nature of identity-Heideggerian "thingness"-Cartographers in the foreign lands of one another, themselves foreign lands.Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read this essay (and see the poems) on Substack!Poems discussed:"The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson"In the Desert" by Herman Melville (my Melville essay)"Lucifer in Starlight" by George Meredith"Cold-Blooded Creatures" by Elinor Wylie"The Animals" by Edwin Muir"Sunt Leones" by Stevie Smith (Fayne's essay)"Beyond the Demonic Element" by Harvey Shapiro"Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought" by X.J. Kennedy"Halloween" by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (see also SLEERICKETS #2)"The Beautiful Animal" by Geoffrey BrockSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read this essay at The Sonneteer! Sonnet types discussed:The Sicilian: ABAB ABAB, CDC DCDThe Italian: ABBA ABBA, CDC DCDThe English: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GGThe French: ABAB, CDCD, EEF, GGFThe Spenserian: ABAB, BCBC, CDCD, EEThe Miltonic: Italian, with enjambment, delayed volta, and non-courtly/erotic contentThe Meredithian: ABBA, CDDC, EFFE, GHHGThe Pushkin: aBaB, ccDD, eFFe, GGThe Hilbertian: ABC ABC, DEF DEF, GGThe Terza Rima: ABA, BCB, CDC, DED, EEThe Hybrid: Various. Ex: ABBA ABBA, CDCD, EEThe Caudate: Various. Usually Italian, plus cauda (tail)The Curtal: Various. Sestet plus “super-quatrain” (quatrain + hemistich)Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

-Read this essay on Substack! -What is meter?-10 Reasons to write in meter-Kinds of meter (Accentual, Syllabic, Parellelist, Quantitative, Accentual-Syllabic)-Kinds of feet (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Amphibrach, Dactyl)-“Junk” by Richard Wilbur-“Considering the Snail” by Thom Gunn-KJV Psalm 23-Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare-“The Tyger” by William Blake-“The Destruction of Sennacherib” by Lord Byron-“O Where Are You Going?” by W.H. Auden-Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow“To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman-Speech stress vs. Relative stress (accent)-The importance of “framing” in scansion-Rhythmic modulation-Common substitutions (feminine endings, reversed feet, acephalous lines)-“All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing” by Timothy SteeleSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read this essay on Substack!Topics discussed:-Disco Demolition Night-Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death" -See Matthew's great episode on the above-Alice's essay, "On Fear"-My essay, "The Iron Lyre"-The Sleerickets episode "This Was Poetry"Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

-Read the poems on my Substack!-If there is a “West,” all Semites and Aryans are part of it-Arab Classicism and the House of Wisdom-Al Ma’arri-Afzaladdin-Moses Ibn Ezra-Sehnsucht-Ibn Iyad-Manjik-Dick Davis-Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas”-Proto-Imagism-My long road to appreciating haiku-Zen in the Art of Archery-Matsuo Basho-Ethan McGuire-Kireji, Kigo, Jisei-Minamoto no Shitago-Howard Nemerov-Derek Walcott-Anne Stevenson-Mary Jo Salter-Motherhood and the feminine mystique-John Frederick Nims-Nicky Beer-Sponsor an episode!!Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read this essay (and view the poems) on Substack!Topics discussed include:The Monumentalist ManifestoThe Iron LyreBright Soft Things (Crashaw Essay) The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse trans. Christopher ChildersAsclepiades 6Zonas 9Argentarius 26Martial 5.73, 1.73, 3.65"Prayer" by George Herbert"Cold Turkey" by Joshua Mehigan"Upon the Body of Our Blessed Lord, Naked and Bloody" by Richard Crashaw"To Our Lord, Upon the Water Made Wine," by Richard Crashaw"God is my Final End" by Angelus Silesius"The Rosebud Has No Why" by Angelus Silesius"Why Do I Exist?" by Daniel Brown"On My First Son" by Ben JonsonSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read this episode on Substack!Text of the poem here.Mea culpa: Yes, in the heat of the moment, I mispronounced mise en scene. A la guillotine! Topics discussed include:-Some po-biz kvetching-Morri Creech! -The telos of Versecraft-The "ghost" of pentameter-The Stevensian cosmovision and the metaphysics of metaphor-The axis mundi-Nicholas of Cusa and coincidentia oppositorum-The Moirai-Contronyms-"An Ordinary Childhood" by Morri Creech-Selve oscura dolce-I.A. Richards and tenor & vehicle-"Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth-"Poem Without Metaphors" by Matthew Buckley Smith-The Blumovian Review-My chapbook, "The Necklace of Harmonia"-My book, "Against Oblivion"Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read this episode on Substack and subscribe! Text of poemTopics discussed include:-Plato's "Ion"-The Muses and Schizophrenia-Poets must be weirdos-The normies are the willing slaves of the mad-Lewis's trilemma-The American Confessionals and the French Decadents -The Wild 18th century-Go read William Cowper's "The Task!" -Samuel Johnson, Richard Savage, William Collins, Christopher Smart, William Blake, Friederich Holderlin, The Marquis de Sade-Jubilate Agno, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Thomson's The Seasons, Tristram Shandy -The man who thought he was Byron-"I Am" by John Clare-Vers libre vs. verse libere-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold-The Masque of the Red Death-Et in Arcadia EgoSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read this episode (and the poem) on Substack!Topics discussed include:-Going to Oaxaca!-"Poetry and Music" and "Rhyme's Reason" by John Hollander-My Nemerov episode-My Donaghy episode-Jacques Lacan and the "mirror phase"-The nightmare of the self vs. the nightmare of the unconscious-The survival of Romanticism Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read this essay on Substack! Read the poems: "The Early Purges" and "Limbo."Topics mentioned:-Poetry careerism in the 21st century-"The Iron Lyre"-The perennial appeal of the Gentleman Farmer Poet-Heaney's bog poems-The value of exposure to death-Rural vs. Urban morality-"The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" by Robert Frost-Piscine Christianity-"At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop-My Yucatan travelogue-My most recent Sleerickets appearanceSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read this essay and support the show on Substack! Topics discussed in this episode include:R.S. Thomas's poems:-Mediations-Kneeling-Via Negativa-The Absence-Revision-Ernest Hilbert-Alexander Fayne's essay on R.S. Thomas-Pascal's "Night of Fire"-Apophatic theology -John Scotus Erigena, Philo, Pseudo-Dionysius, Weil, etc. -Keats's "Ode On A Grecian Urn"-Milton's "On His Blindness" Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read this episode in essay form here! Topics discussed in this episode include:-The Cambridge Three: Dick Davis, Robert Wells, Clive Wilmer-My Interview with Dick Davis-The Stanford Poets: Thom Gunn, Edgar Bowers, Yvor Winters, etc.-Virgil's Georgics-The Idylls of Theocritus-Wells poems discussed: "A Caution," "Deus Loci," "The Unnamed Pool," "The Bathing Place," "The Last of Summer."-Episodes on the pathetic fallacy here and here-Apophasis-"Le Cimetiere Marin" by Paul Valery-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters-Sensory deprivation tanks-Mysticism vs. LoveSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read the poem here.Topics discussed in this episode include:-Transcending the smallness of one's time-The Flaming Terrapin-The Voorslag Affair-Campbell against the world, i.e. punching Steve Spender in the face -Ambivalent stanzas-The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot-"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens-"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge-"The Whiteness of the Whale" by Herman Melville-A Nietzschean response to apocalypse Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Read the episode on Substack herePoems discussed in this episode:"Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee" by Emily Bronte"Cargoes" by John Masefield"From Stone to Steel" by E.J. Pratt"The Hill" by Rupert Brooke"When the Ecstatic Body Grips" by E.R. Dodds"For My Daughter" by Weldon Kees"Poetry and Religion" by Les Murray"Soul" by Alan Shapiro"Where the River Meets the Sound" by Suzanne Doyle"Clear Water" by Catherine TufarielloSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

-Read the poem... by pre-ordering Forester’s new collection here! -Or here, on Substack! -The Versecraft Substack-My annus mirabilis-Forester McClatchey! -Frederick Goddard Tuckerman-Renovating the sonnet-house-Mycorrhizal intelligence-Is the pathos fallacious? -A thinking cheese for the thinking man-The ents at the entmoot-My recent episode on Sleerickets with Alice-Cosmic double-consciousness-Dark circles of eternity and oblivionSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 the poem here.Read the transcript of this episode here!Topics discussed in this episode include:-My new website!-My Substack-The meaning and history of New Formalism-“Can Poetry Matter?” by Dana Gioia-The Big Read and Poetry Out Loud-“The Catholic Writer Today” by Dana Gioia-“Poetry as Enchantment” by Dana Gioia-Boris Dralyuk on Noir Poetry-The Noir hero-Christopher Marlowe and Charles Marlow-The Santa Ana winds-“Red Wind” by Raymond Chandler-“The Lady in the Lake” by Raymond Chandler-A net of coins-Plato FM Radio -Of beauty and youth-Of coyotes, dogs, and menSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:-Read this show on substack! -My new website!!-My conversation with David and Matthew on Age of Muses-My new post at Literary Matters-My French translation episode on Heredia-My Spanish translation episode on Lope-Metaphrase and paraphrase-Germany's view of Goethe-Magister Christopher Childers-From Sturm und Drang to Spit on that Thang (sorry)-Weimar (semi)Classicism-How to write a sex poem-Accentual-syllabic vs. Quantitative meter-The Education of Elijah Blumov by one Christopher Childers-The lowdown on elegiac couplets, feat. Coleridge-Goethe's technique, my technique-The classical, semi-salvific quality of good sex-My own embroiderings of the text-Various triumvirates-To All the Poets Who Loved BeforeSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:Read the polished transcript of this episode on Substack! My lecture on The Grand Style in EnglishMy poem, "Spelunker," in New Verse ReviewThe 2025 ALSCW ConferenceCameron’s substackEthan’s substackPoetry’s psychological effect and moral chargeThe burden of geniusPoetry vs. PhilosophyMaimonides and AugustineThe decadence of the academy"Poetry as Enchantment" by Dana GioiaThe function of meter and rhymeThe heresy of paraphraseBouts-rime and pleonasmRomanticism reduxLeo StraussThe spiritual je ne sais quoi of tragedyThe horror film “Martyrs”“Norma” by Vincenzo Bellini“Tristan und Isolde” by Richard WagnerStoic vs. Christian resignationBourgeois tragedy and the existential hero“Hedda Gabler” by Ibsen“Brand” by Ibsen“Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller“The Death of Tragedy” by George Steiner“The Clouds” by AristophanesTragedy vs. Comedy and the Absurd“It’s A Wonderful Life” by Frank Capra“Alcestis” by EuripidesHistory as Self-consciousnessThe hazards of ProtestantismThe history of the night before“Swann’s Way” by Marcel ProustMonuments as time capsulesThe Egyptian legacyThe Book of JobFriendship with the deadThe musical chain of beingMusic as the Cosmic WillDiscord and reconciliationYou are the string that is pluckedLiebestodThe harmonic cathedral of God-consciousnessBrad Leithauser on SLEERICKETSThe unique pleasures of limitationA Nietzschean epilogueNietzsche vs. the StoicsSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:Read the polished transcript of this episode here! Cameron’s substackEthan’s substack"The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur SchopenhauerWhy you Kant do metaphysics anymoreMatter, Phenomena, Representation, Maya vs.Form, Noumena, Will, NirvanaTerrains of fleshFrench vs. English gardensFrom Schopenhauer to FreudPerception vs ReflectionArt vs. PhilosophyIdea vs. ConceptionThe Symbolist MovementClassical Architecture supremacy?My Case for Meter and Rhyme episodes (1 and 2)Shane McCraeWe want stallions, not blobs! Classical vs. GothicArt Deco and BrutalismSculpture vs. PaintingZeuxisDavid Lynch, SymbolisteSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:-My recent class at the Frost Farm Conference-My trip to Europe-Come to the ALSCW Conference!-Part I and Part II of my essay on French poetry in Marginalia Review of Books-New poems and translations of mine in the latest issue of Literary Matters-My essays The Iron Lyre and The Monumentalist Manifesto-The most recent SLEERICKETS-The Romantic within the Classicist-Philosophy within poetry-The mystique of Santayana-"The Morning Song of Senlin" by Conrad Aiken-"The Clerk's Journal" and "The House of Dust" by Conrad Aiken-"Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry-"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt-The Colossi of Memnon-Metrical trickery and incorporating Whitman into iambs.-Stevensian Idealism and the Supreme Fiction-Neoplatonism and Ukiyo-From Solipsism to Pantheism-From Berkeley to Kant-The meaning of "God's Image"-Dialectical Monism, the Dyad, and the TaoSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 mentioned in this episode:-The use of the term “poetry” and the death of the genuine article-Building metrical literacy-My essay “The Iron Lyre”-Modern small-souledness-My essay “The Poisoned Well: Melville and Gnosticism”-My essay “The Monumentalist Manifesto”-“Science, Politics, and Gnosticism” by Eric Voegelin-“The Whiteness of the Whale” in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”-“The Gnostic Gospels” ed. Elaine Pagels -“Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century” by Melville-“The Maldive Shark” by Melville-My episode “Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero” -“The Brothers Karamazov” by Dostoevsky-My episode “What is Art? What Is It For?” -“J.V. Cunningham's Counter-Revolution” by James Matthew Wilson-“Poetry and Religion” by Les Murray-Myth as the missing link between philosophy, religion, and poetrySupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 hereSoundtrack to this episode Topics discussed in this episode: -The University of St. Thomas, Houston -"The Flaming Heart" by Mario Praz-Giambattista Marino-Metaphysical vs. Baroque-The poetry of rapture-The Greek Anthology-Laudianism -Crashaw's Teresa poems-Mixed meter and phantom beats-"Venus and Adonis" by Billy Shakes-The saintly grief in your wedding ring-Aurora, not Selene! -"The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" by Sir Philip Sidney-"On a Drop of Dew" by Andrew Marvell-The nurturing sublime-A humanized heaven in human eyes Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:-The MFA Program at the University of St. Thomas-My episode on Ryan’s poem “Disobedience”-"How to Think Like a Poet" by Ryan Wilson-Wiseblood Books-New editions of Dryden and Pope soon come!-“The Catholic Writer Today” by Dana Gioia-David Rothman-New Verse Review’s St. Thomas issue-“A Season in Hell” by Arthur Rimbaud-“Pure and Impure Poetry” by Robert Penn Warren-The Fugitives, Agrarians, and New Critics-“The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot-“Dante” by T.S. Eliot-“The World’s Body” by John Crowe Ransom-“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot-“From Ritual to Romance” by Jessie Weston-“Proteus Bound” by Ryan Wilson-“El Desdichado” by Gerard de Nerval-“An Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke-Joyce’s “Ulysses” and the mythic method-Aestheticism and Theophile Gautier-Negative Capability-Blake, Picasso, and derangement-Four Roses whiskey (sponsor me!)-“Rob Roy,” by Sir Walter Scott-“For the Highway Medians” by Matthew Buckley Smith-“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick-A hypostatic, moral exegesis of the Odyssey-The Aeneid as tragedy-“Imitations” by Robert Lowell-Plutarch’s “Lives”-“Annus Mirabilis” by John Dryden-Dryden vs. Pope-Pope’s “Ode On Solitude” and “Essay On Man”-“Heorot” by Ryan WilsonSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:Wiseblood BooksThe University of St. Thomas MFA ProgramMy episode on James Matthew Wilson"The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking" by James Matthew Wilson"The Wayward Thomist" by James Matthew WilsonThe Complete Essays of J.V. CunninghamJacques Maritain"Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky"La Vita Nuova" by DanteMatthew 16"In Ghostlight" by Ryan Wilson"The River of the Immaculate Conception" by James Matthew Wilson"Mass of the Americas" by Frank La Rocca"The Bridge" by Hart Crane"The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot“Tradition and the Individual Talent” by T.S. Eliot“Four Quartets” by T.S. Eliot“The Illusion of Reaction” by Yvor Winters“All the Fun’s In How You Say a Thing” by Timothy Steele“Missing Measures” by Timothy SteeleF.T. Prince“Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century” by Herman MelvilleMy episode on Helen Pinkerton“Love in the Western World” by Denis de Rougemont“Agape and Eros” by Anders Nygren“The Marriage” by Yvor Winters “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor“Wiped Out” by James Matthew Wilson“The Moon and Sixpence” by W. Somerset Maugham“Fides et Ratio” by John Paul II “Confessions” by Augustine“Forms of Discovery” by Yvor Winters"The Death of Cicero" by James Matthew WilsonSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:Matthew Buckley Smith over at SLEERICKETSAlice Allan over at Poetry Says and In Future PostsEthan McGuire over at The FlummoxedZina Gomez Liss over at The Beauty of ThingsCameron Clark over at Minor TiresiasRationalist, Socialist, Humanist, Bicameral Demo-Oligarchic Utopia?Ironkraft and CheesecraftAn incomplete list of people I envy: Kendrick Lamar, Shane McCrae, James Matthew Wilson, Chris Childers, Dick Davis, Amit Majmudar, Matthew Buckley Smith, Bill Coyle, Don Paterson, etc. etc. An incomplete list of people who inspire me: Yvor Winters, Irving Babbitt, Matthew Arnold, William Shakespeare, John Milton, the Attic Tragedians, E.A. Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Bowers, Richard Wilbur, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Vyasa, Simone Weil, William Morris. The Book of JobIsaiah 45:7Alitu and BuzzsproutKol NidreMy episode with Zina and David on Fireside ChatHarold BloomThe Archimedean point Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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/Prose Lyrics featured:"The Eagles" by Jones Very"The Oracles" by A.E. Housman"An Equation" by Hyam Plutzik"Plato and the Serpent" by Catherine Davis"Crow's Theology" by Ted Hughes"Changeling" by Rhina Espaillat"Hardy" by Robert Mezey"The Master of Metaphor" by Carl Dennis"Lust" by J.D. McClatchy"An Incident in the Sublime" by Wyatt PruntyPoems/Prose Lyrics mentioned:"Jones Very in the Parlor" by Brian Brodeur"The Proverbs of Hell" by William Blake"Antarctica" by Elijah Perseus BlumovSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:-Email me your questions!! -Cameron's substack, "Minor Tiresias"-My poem, "At Woodlawn" in Merion West-My poem, "Aztec Support" in Light-My episode on Learning the Secrets of English Verse-"Missing Measures" and "All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" by Timothy Steele-De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum-"Notes On Metre" by Otto Jespersen-The Trager-Smith school of linguistics-The Halle-Keyser theory of prosody-Paul Kiparsky-Seymour Chapman-"The Rhythms of English Poetry" by Derek Attridge-"The Origin of Writing" by Roy HarrisSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeText of poem hereSend me your AMA questions for Versecraft 100! Topics discussed in this episode include:-Greatest Generation poets-"Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry" by Howard Nemerov-"De Anima" by Aristotle-On loose iambics-The ghost of Sapphics-A transexual volta-Life engenders the great romance of death-"Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins-The nature of empathy and tragedy-Orpheus and Eurydice and my Shane McCrae Episode-Cupid like you've never seen him beforeSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeText of poem:Bird WatcherIt returns to the same nest. The watcher liesbeneath spring brushwood to await its coming–at watch so long he dreams himself becomingless than himself and more, the landscape’s eyes. Though far beyond his eyes, beyond the rangeof field-glasses, he knows it breaks no bonds: its instinct to his knowledge corresponds,riding the current of the season’s change. What is there in a small bird’s blood that learnsto plot its course by sun and stars, being drawnyearly toward a lost, remembered dawn? The watcher broods on this. The bird returns.And all its colours flash where he attends–a deep blue mantling rust and white. It singscaged in his retina; then on curving wingsveers off to vanish where the human ends. Topics discussed in this episode include:-My episode with Zina and David on Fireside Chat-My essay, The Iron Lyre-My essay, The Monumentalist Manifesto-Subscribe to the Versecraft substack! -Also subscribe to Zina, David, Matthew, Ethan, Alice, Steve, and Chris's substacks!-My interview with Dick Davis-John Ruskin and William Morris-The Books of Enoch-"To A Waterfowl" by William Cullen Bryant-"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens-A Poeta Ad AvemSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:-Go buy Learning the Secrets of English Verse! -The Monumentalist Manifesto-My episode, The Idea Of A Poetry Conservatory-Poetry as skill-The Fitzgerald system of scansion-Parallelism, Syllabics, Loose Iambics, Stress-counting, rhyme-driving, sprung rhythm, oh my!-"All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" by Timothy Steele-Sonnets don't cure polio, but they're pretty great.-Rhyme Royal, Ottava Rima, Spenserians, Onegin, oh my!-L'dor VadorSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeText of poemTopics discussed include:-Your host has an identity crisis-RIP POETRY SAYS! -Listen to Alice on Milton and with me.-Moira Egan!-My Pindar essay-My Melville essay-The Iron Lyre!-Matthew, Alice, and I argue about The Iron Lyre-THE ERN MALLEY HOAX-The New York School and the Generation of '68-Read the entire text of The Darkening Ecliptic here.-A Primer of English Versification-Dickinson and Blake-The loneliness of love-The mysticism of lust-Embracing the eternal vibration, man.Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeLink to translationsTopics discussed:-Alice tackles Milton on Poetry Says-Check out my Substack here! -My episode on Ryan Wilson-My episode on Geoffrey Hill-The long and short of a long fellow-Longfellow's Dante-The Monster of Literature-Romance languages and hendecasyllabics-Faithful to which fidelity?-Translational hijinks ensue-Mosaic rhymes!Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeNote: My use of the phrase "men without chests" and Matthew's were completely coincidental! Text of poem:Lachrimae Antiquae NovaeCrucified Lord, so naked to the world,you live unseen within that nakedness,consigned by proxy to the judas-kissof our devotion, bowed beneath the gold,with re-enactments, penances foretold:scentings of love across a wildernessof retrospection, wild and objectlesslongings incarnate in the carnal child.Beautiful for themselves the icons fade;the lions and the hermits disappear.Triumphalism feasts on empty dread,fulfilling triumphs of the festal year.We find you wounded by the token spear.Dominion is swallowed with your blood.Topics discussed:Subscribe to Versecraft on Substack!The SLEERICKETS Geoffrey Hill episode-Poetic accessibility, pro and contra-John Dowland's "Lachrimae"-My episode on Eliot's East Coker IV-Choriambs??-Scansion vs. delivery-Hill's vorticism-John Henry Newman's "illative sense" -The Wordsworthian cult of the child-Plato's "Meno" dialogue-Childhood neuroplasticity-Psychedelic rewiring of the brain (see Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind")-The Anglican tension-"The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis-Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"-Old tears renewedSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeText of poem:Nor strange it is, to us who walk in bondsOf flesh and time, if virtue's self awhileGleam dull like sunless ice; whilst graceful guile—Blood-flecked like hematite or diamondsWith a red inward spark—to reconcileBeauty and evil seems and correspondsSo well with good that the mind joys to haveFull wider jet and scope nor swings and sleepsForever in one cradle wearily:Like those vast weeds that off d'Acunha's isleWash with the surf and flap their mighty frondsMournfully to the dipping of the wave,Yet cannot be disrupted from their deepsBy the whole heave and settle of the sea.Topics discussed in this episode include:-That time Italy almost got involved in the Civil War-Transcendentalism (or not)-Hawthorne continues to demonstrate his good taste-Yvor Winters? Witter Bynner? Who names these people? -Previous feature N. Scott Momaday-Nonce sonnets!-Antinomian ruminations-Virtue vs. Goodness-The cradle and the weed-Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"-Pesky dualities-Surfing the TaoSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeRead the text of the poem hereTopics discussed in this episode include:The Iron Lyre: Poetry, Heavy Metal, and the New SublimeAlice and Elijah vs. The Abyss on SLEERICKETSMelissa Range!Aaron Baker!David Southward!"The Rhythms of English Poetry" by Derek AttridgeMy John Donne episodeMy George Herbert episodeMy Gerard Manley Hopkins episodeMy Mark Jarman episodeSpeech stress vs. meterAdventures in etymologyWhat was accomplished on the cross?The Aztec cosmic blood machineUn triolet par moiWe are worms!Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:-Jewelcraft, Housecraft, Guitarcraft-The utilities of form-David Gilmour-The mysticism of scientific discovery-Technology: What is it good for?-Cosmic double-consciousness-Does a cosmic perspective lead to enlightenment or nihilism? -The functional aesthetics of NatureSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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:-Simple Syrup-Why poetry?-Poetry vs. Music-David vs. Versecraft-My "What Is Art?" episode-The Case For Meter and Rhyme Part I-The Case For Meter and Rhyme Part II-The Case Against Versecraft by Matt Wall -"Cain" by Lord Byron-"Empedocles On Etna" by Matthew ArnoldSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode Text of poemTopics discussed in this episode include:-New Critical Rococo-The Changing Light at Sandover-The Ingram Merrill Foundation-Shape poems-My George Herbert episode-"Pindarick Odes"-"Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold-"Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt-What do Christmas trees and dying men have in common? Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeThe original 10 Poems I Like"New Advances in Quitting Poetry" on SLEERICKETS"This is not Exactly What I Mean" on the SLEERICKETS Secret ShowMy Dante essay at Voegelin View!Poems discussed in this episode:"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats"Miriam Tazewell" by John Crowe Ransom"I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines" by Edna St. Vincent Millay"November Cotton Flower" by Jean Toomer"On Being Human" by C.S. Lewis"The Fall of Rome" by W.H. Auden"The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop"Our Lady of Walsingham" (from "A Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket") by Robert Lowell"St. Judas" by James Wright"Orthodox Christmas Eve" by Gail WhiteSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeText of poem hereTopics discussed in this episode include:-Sentimentality-National character-Philip Larkin, novelist: "Jill," and "A Girl in Winter"-"The Movement" movement-The Oxford Book of 20th Century English Verse-"Church-Going" by Philip Larkin-The blindness of historical consciousness-Temporal and generational erosion-"Miniver Cheevy" by E.A. Robinson-Last lines and legacies-But is it sentimental??Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeTopics discussed in this episode include:-Listen to my talk on Melville here-Listen to my poetry reading with Dan Brown here-Outsider poetry-The Education of Henry Adams-Metrical hijinks-The inherent negations of blindness-"Durer: Insbrook, 1495" by Ern Malley-"Lycidas" by John Milton-Forging a new sensibility in identitarian poetry Text of poem:The Education of the Blind Poet; Or, Ars Poetica Ending with a Line from Milton When I was 9 they taught me how to lookat someone as they spoke though I could seenothing: it's polite they said & I was, lookI'm staring at the nothing of you, see?My Nothing reader, pelted in your silence:silent in History I drilled my lackof stare into the history-shaped silenceof the confidential blackboard's black.The teacher, standing slightly to its rightscrawled her timelines onto its cold chalk down.See, teacher, have I not been studious: "Write what's on the board." & I noted nothing down.My No-Thing reader, ear pressed to the boardof words, how has your face become hers? mutelight stained her hair as she addressed the board,& I presided over absence, mute.All blind things learn to cleave to absence:stiff-uniformed moles shoulder their chalk-blank domeof earth. O Teacher to you I was absence,you who'd only bring yourself to speak óf measking always Does hé need help? in a voicehushed & mailed by its pity, pitywordscringing between your jaws. I knew that voiceas my inheritance: these blind mouths full of words.Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeText of poem:The Last Act‘Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved, Now leaves him. It is too often only close to death,or utter failure, when the mind is heldto truth, we see the outlines of the gods,those whom we loved but never realized. Above us in a void burnt-out and cold,at unfamiliar heights their forms returnlike ghosts to move across the final night,remote and unappeased in our collapse.There is no bitterness in facing them. The heart that fatally kept them deprived,and saw them hostile to the living blood,will pay in blood its error, every vein. In what is not the gods are reconfirmed,the candor of their presence briefly seen. The tragedy leaves nothing else but that. Then they are gone. The music underground,the quiet terror of its shifting source,its echoes vanishing moves in their place. Topics discussed in this episode include:-Come see my Melville lecture tomorrow on Zoom!-New shirts!!-The precariousness of literary preservation, and our inestimable losses-My conversation with Tim Steele-Wiseblood Books! -Finlay's Collected Prose here and Collected Poetry here-"The Wayward Thomist" by James Matthew Wilson (COMING SOON!) -The gnosticism of Modernity -"Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" by Eric Voegelin-"Antony and Cleopatra" by Willy Shakes-"The God Abandons Antony" by Constantine Cavafy-The nature of the tragic-Negative/Apophatic Theology (Via Negativa)-"That We Should Not Be Considered Happy Until We Are Dead" by Michel de Montaigne-Juan de la Cruz-hamartia, hubris, sin-Ananke and the Music of the SpheresSupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episodeLink to poems! Read the Classical Outlook poetry issue here! NEW MERCH HERETo receive a link to the Critical Path Symposium, follow the email link at the bottom right of this pageTopics discussed in this episode include:-Philip Walsh and Rachel Hadas!-The Classical Outlook!-Classical Reception Studies-"44 Pastorals" by Rachel Hadas-Prosimetra/Haibun-"Prose of Departure" by James Merrill-"Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms" ed. by David Lehman-"Personal Best: Makers On Their Poems That Matter Most"-In praise of postludes-Rachel’s Euripides and Dionysiaca-"Achilles and Odysseus” by Susan McLean-“Mimesis” by Erich Auerbach-“Imaginary Conversations” by Walter Savage Landor-“The Songs of the Kings” by Barry Unsworth-“Circe” by Madeleine Miller-“The King Must Die” by Mary Renault-“Iphigenia” dir. Michael Cacoyannis-“The Silence of the Girls” by Pat Barker-The Feminist re-telling of Classical myths trend-“Liber Tertius Decimus” by Julia Griffin-“After the Fall” by David Katz-“The Mazemaker” by Michael Ayrton-“Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths” by Charlotte Higgins-“Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In” by Henry Eliot-“The House of Asterion” by Jorge Luis Borges-“The Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder-“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden-D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths-“Theseus and the Minotaur” by Edwin Muir-“Megalopolis” dir. Francis Ford Coppola-The Classical Outlook takes Princeton!Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Als Zarathustra dreissig Jahr alt war, verliess er seine Heimat und den See seiner Heimat und ging in das Gebirge. Hier genoss er seines Geistes und seiner Einsamkeit und wurde dessen zehn Jahr nicht müde. Endlich aber verwandelte sich sein Herz,—und eines Morgens stand er mit der Morgenröthe auf, trat vor die Sonne hin und sprach zu ihr also: „Du grosses Gestirn! Was wäre dein Glück, wenn du nicht Die hättest, welchen du leuchtest! Zehn Jahre kamst du hier herauf zu meiner Höhle: du würdest deines Lichtes und dieses Weges satt geworden sein, ohne mich, meinen Adler und meine Schlange. Aber wir warteten deiner an jedem Morgen, nahmen dir deinen Überfluss ab und segneten dich dafür. Siehe! Ich bin meiner Weisheit überdrüssig, wie die Biene, die des Honigs zu viel gesammelt hat, ich bedarf der Hände, die sich ausstrecken. Ich möchte verschenken und austheilen, bis die Weisen unter den Menschen wieder einmal ihrer Thorheit und die Armen einmal ihres Reichthums froh geworden sind. Dazu muss ich in die Tiefe steigen: wie du des Abends thust, wenn du hinter das Meer gehst und noch der Unterwelt Licht bringst, du überreiches Gestirn! Ich muss, gleich dir, untergehen, wie die Menschen es nennen, zu denen ich hinab will. So segne mich denn, du ruhiges Auge, das ohne Neid auch ein allzugrosses Glück sehen kann! Segne den Becher, welcher überfliessen will, dass das Wasser golden aus ihm fliesse und überallhin den Abglanz deiner Wonne trage! Siehe! Dieser Becher will wieder leer werden, und Zarathustra will wieder Mensch werden.“ —Also begann Zarathustra’s Untergang.Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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: "The Neural Lyre" was published in 1983, not 1994. Don't know why I said that! Read today's poem hereTopics discussed in this episode include:-William Paley's watchmaker analogy-Problems with teleological arguments-Brandon Carter's Anthropic Principle-Multiverse/many worlds theory-John Archibald Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle-"It from bit"-George Berkeley's Idealism-Vedanta Hinduism-"The Anthropic Cosmological Principle" -Barrow and Tipler's Final Anthropic Principle-"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's theology of the noosphere and omega point-"Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor-Turner's essay, "The Neural Lyre" -Turner's book, "Natural Classicism"-Turner's epic poems: The New World, Genesis, Apocalypse-The transtemporal community of humanitySupport the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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: Apologies for my faint audio in the beginning! Soundtrack to this episode Second soundtrack, because... I had to. Topics discussed in this episode include:-Thom Gunn and some of his literary interests (Henry James, George Macdonald, Saki, Ovid, etc.)-My episode on Thom Gunn-My episode on Timothy Steele-Read The Classical Outlook!!-Writing from experience vs. writing from ideas-"Missing Measures" by Timothy Steele-All the Fun's In How You Say a Thing, 2nd Edition!-Desert Places by Robert Frost-How form informs content-The importance of rhythmic modulation-"The Audible Reading of Poetry" by Yvor Winters-"Versification: A Short Introduction" by James McAuley-The 20th century metrical Renaissance-Bring back verse epistles! -Yvor Winters's criticism: pro and contra-The Plain Style-The Stanford School: Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, J.V. Cunningham, Edgar Bowers, Helen Pinkerton, Thom Gunn, etc. -X.J. Kennedy-Palo Alto poets vs. San Francisco poets-The Curious Case of Thom Gunn-What Winters and Poe have in common-The Smith, Wilson, Clark reading-"Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of Steele"-Waiting for the Storm by Timothy Steele Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode (it's Stephen Kampa!)Topics discussed in this episode include:-Go read New Verse Review!-Go listen to my talk on SLEERICKETS about Horace's Ars Poetica!-Go listen to the mighty Fer de Lance!-The Sleerickets Stephen Kampa episode-Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason-From Transcendental Idealism to Transcendentalism-Romanticism as post-Kantian reaction -Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Freud, Coleridge, Emerson, etc. etc.-Contemptus Mundi-The inauthenticity of the nihilist everyman-The Protestant anti-rationalist tradition-Spooky Calvinist symbolism + German Romanticism + Hinduism 101 + Patriotism = Transcendentalism-Death and Love conceived ornithologically-More dialectical poems! Text of poem:Phenomena, Noumena, Startling SparrowsFaced with the world mistaken for the world,I’m not confused: it seems so sensibleTo call the loose, cyclonic pulse of leavesOn sidewalks “physics,” and not a miracle. I understand a prophet undeceives Himself when, limping by the roadkill curledBeside the curb, he thinks theodicyInadequate for even bestial pain,Or when, dispersing the loud shroud of fliesThat swaddles it, he wonders how the saneEscape their own conclusions. Sense defiesEvery compendium of mystery. And if I’m senseless, then, for holding thisWorld most enlightening when its premisesGrow thinnest, I am glad to be struck dumb.Look: fireflies punctuate the night with greenEpigrams on love, petunias keenFor the dead possum, and electrons hum Concentric hymns to probabilityWhile leaf-swirls sing in fractal harmony.Best is this line of sparrows that have shown Their utter distance from the disapprovingCaws of the crows by fleshing out a movingEllipsis leading into the unknown. Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: [email protected] 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 (/ /)