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Versecraft — 127 episodes

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1

"The Wind Is Round" by Howard Moss

2

The Poisoned Well: Melville and Gnosticism

3

"Identity" by Elizabeth Jennings

4

10 Poems I Like Part V

5

Little Golden Songs: The Art of the Sonnet

6

How To Write In Meter 101

7

"Disco Sucks"

8

Snap Into A Slim Hymn: The Art of Epigram Pt. 2

9

Kvetched in Stone: The Art of Epigram Pt. 1

10

"Bedtime Metaphysics" by Morri Creech

11

John Clare and the Madness of Poets

12

"The Night Mirror" by John Hollander

13

Black Magic: Two Poems by Seamus Heaney

14

The Via Negativa of R.S. Thomas

15

The Numinous Pastorals of Robert Wells

16

"Horses on the Camargue" by Roy Campbell

17

10 Poems I Like Part IV

18

"Root Words" by Forester McClatchey

19

"In Chandler Country" by Dana Gioia

20

On Translation: "Roman Elegy V" by J.W. von Goethe

21

Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour, Part 2

22

Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour, Part I (feat. Cameron and Ethan)

23

"Preludes to Memnon 1:4-5" by Conrad Aiken

24

Singing the Counter-Revolution: Ryan Wilson Interviews EPB

25

LIVE @ St. Thomas: "The Tear" by Richard Crashaw

26

Hermetic Angelology: An Interview with Ryan Wilson

27

The Whole in One: An Interview with James Matthew Wilson

28

Footnotes to Job: The Versecraft 100th ep AMA!

29

10 Poems I Like Part III

30

Fitzgerald Strikes Back: Rothman's Rebuttal

31

"De Anima" by Howard Nemerov

32

"Bird Watcher" by Clive Wilmer (R.I.P.)

33

Learning the Secrets of English Verse

34

The Ern Malley Hoax! (and "Monologue," by James McAuley)

35

On Translation: 5 Ways of Looking at Lope

36

"Lachrimae Antiquae Novae" by Geoffrey Hill

37

"Nor Strange It Is" by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

38

"Kermes Red" by Melissa Range

39

Cosmic Architecture feat. David Klug

40

Scansion Is Boring! feat. David Klug

41

"Christmas Tree" by James Merrill

42

10 More Poems I Like

43

"An Arundel Tomb" by Philip Larkin

44

"The Education of the Blind Poet" by Cameron Clark

45

"The Last Act" by John Martin Finlay

46

Receivers of the Gods: A Conversation with The Classical Outlook

47

WURSTKRAFT HOLIDAYSPEZIAL

48

"On the Anthropic Principle" by Frederick Turner

49

Gloves of Mettle: An Interview with Timothy Steele

50

"Phenomena, Noumena, Startling Sparrows" by Stephen Kampa

51

The Case For Poetic Patronage

52

A Lover's Quarrel with Robert Frost

53

Guardians of Matter: Timothy Steele's "Anima" and the Pathetic Fallacy

54

Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero

55

"Apollinian" by Amit Majmudar

56

"Eurydice On the Art of Poetry" by Shane McCrae

57

Folie a Deux: Laura Riding and Robert Graves

58

Fulke Greville and the Rejection of Courtly Love

59

To Be Or Not: Dunbar and Juster On Suicide

60

10 Poems I Like

61

"The Marriage" by Yvor Winters

62

"Shiversong" by George David Clark

63

"Musseling" by Jan Schreiber

64

"Disobedience" by Ryan Wilson

65

Imagism 3: The Thing Itself

66

Imagism Pt. 2: The House That Hulme Built

67

The Road to Imagism, Pt. 1: 19th Century Origins

68

On Translation: Heredia et Moi

69

"The Heirloom" by Michael Donaghy

70

"Phantom V" by Don Paterson

71

"Sunlight" by Thom Gunn

72

"At Mornington" by Gwen Harwood

73

The Rainbow Mythos: The Songcraft of Ronnie James Dio

74

"The Coronet" by Andrew Marvell

75

"Angle of Geese" by N. Scott Momaday

76

"The End Of The Weekend" by Anthony Hecht

77

"The Birth of God" by Daniel Brown

78

"Simple Autumnal" by Louise Bogan

79

To My Artist Friends, Part II (feat. SLEERICKETS)

80

To My Artist Friends, Part I (feat. SLEERICKETS)

81

Some Problems With Confessionalism

82

"Rosh Hashanah" by Elijah Perseus Blumov

83

"Through The Water" by James Matthew Wilson

84

"Mother Carey's Hen" by David Yezzi

85

"The Sponge" by Joshua Mehigan

86

Haydn In Plain Style: An Interview With Dick Davis

87

"Athena" by Amy Clampitt

88

"Trolling For Blues" by Richard Wilbur

89

"East Coker IV" by T.S. Eliot

90

"Voyages II" by Hart Crane

91

"Eros" by Robert Bridges

92

"May My Enemy Be Assuaged" by Derek Walcott

93

What Poetry Is (And Isn't)

94

The Idea Of A Poetry Conservatory

95

"Funeral Doom Metal" by Elijah Perseus Blumov

96

"Paradise Saved" by A.D. Hope

97

"The Wall" by Donald Justice

98

"God Works In A Mysterious Way" by Gwendolyn Brooks

99

"To An Absence" by Brian Brodeur

100

"Holy Sonnet IX" by John Donne

101

"Send Forth the High Falcon" by Leonie Adams

102

"Last Rites" by Ernest Hilbert

103

"Luke Havergal" by Edwin Arlington Robinson

104

"Fishing" by A.E. Stallings

105

The Case For Meter and Rhyme, Part 2

106

The Case For Meter and Rhyme, Part 1

107

"DMT" by Elijah Perseus Blumov

108

"Unholy Sonnet 16" by Mark Jarman

109

"As Kingfishers Catch Fire" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

110

"I Read My Sentence Steadily" by Emily Dickinson

111

"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" by John Keats

112

"Contra Dante (Kind Of)" by Bill Coyle

113

"Paradiso XIV, 63" by Matthew Buckley Smith

114

"Epitaph" by Gwendolyn Bennett

115

"The Metaphysical Amorist" by J.V. Cunningham

116

"Marriage As A Problem of Universals" by Dick Davis

117

What Is Art? What Is It For? An Inquiry

118

"The Eclipse of Meaning" by Elijah Perseus Blumov

119

"La Corrida" by Robert Hayden

120

"Error Pursued" by Helen Pinkerton

121

"Hap" By Thomas Hardy

122

"Country Burial" by Janet Lewis

123

"The Course of a Particular" by Wallace Stevens

124

"Organic Bloom" by Stanley Kunitz

125

"Church Monuments" by George Herbert

126

"In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

127

"A Song For Rising" by Edgar Bowers