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Versecraft — 127 episodes
"The Wind Is Round" by Howard Moss
The Poisoned Well: Melville and Gnosticism
"Identity" by Elizabeth Jennings
10 Poems I Like Part V
Little Golden Songs: The Art of the Sonnet
How To Write In Meter 101
"Disco Sucks"
Snap Into A Slim Hymn: The Art of Epigram Pt. 2
Kvetched in Stone: The Art of Epigram Pt. 1
"Bedtime Metaphysics" by Morri Creech
John Clare and the Madness of Poets
"The Night Mirror" by John Hollander
Black Magic: Two Poems by Seamus Heaney
The Via Negativa of R.S. Thomas
The Numinous Pastorals of Robert Wells
"Horses on the Camargue" by Roy Campbell
10 Poems I Like Part IV
"Root Words" by Forester McClatchey
"In Chandler Country" by Dana Gioia
On Translation: "Roman Elegy V" by J.W. von Goethe
Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour, Part 2
Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour, Part I (feat. Cameron and Ethan)
"Preludes to Memnon 1:4-5" by Conrad Aiken
Singing the Counter-Revolution: Ryan Wilson Interviews EPB
LIVE @ St. Thomas: "The Tear" by Richard Crashaw
Hermetic Angelology: An Interview with Ryan Wilson
The Whole in One: An Interview with James Matthew Wilson
Footnotes to Job: The Versecraft 100th ep AMA!
10 Poems I Like Part III
Fitzgerald Strikes Back: Rothman's Rebuttal
"De Anima" by Howard Nemerov
"Bird Watcher" by Clive Wilmer (R.I.P.)
Learning the Secrets of English Verse
The Ern Malley Hoax! (and "Monologue," by James McAuley)
On Translation: 5 Ways of Looking at Lope
"Lachrimae Antiquae Novae" by Geoffrey Hill
"Nor Strange It Is" by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
"Kermes Red" by Melissa Range
Cosmic Architecture feat. David Klug
Scansion Is Boring! feat. David Klug
"Christmas Tree" by James Merrill
10 More Poems I Like
"An Arundel Tomb" by Philip Larkin
"The Education of the Blind Poet" by Cameron Clark
"The Last Act" by John Martin Finlay
Receivers of the Gods: A Conversation with The Classical Outlook
WURSTKRAFT HOLIDAYSPEZIAL
"On the Anthropic Principle" by Frederick Turner
Gloves of Mettle: An Interview with Timothy Steele
"Phenomena, Noumena, Startling Sparrows" by Stephen Kampa
The Case For Poetic Patronage
A Lover's Quarrel with Robert Frost
Guardians of Matter: Timothy Steele's "Anima" and the Pathetic Fallacy
Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero
"Apollinian" by Amit Majmudar
"Eurydice On the Art of Poetry" by Shane McCrae
Folie a Deux: Laura Riding and Robert Graves
Fulke Greville and the Rejection of Courtly Love
To Be Or Not: Dunbar and Juster On Suicide
10 Poems I Like
"The Marriage" by Yvor Winters
"Shiversong" by George David Clark
"Musseling" by Jan Schreiber
"Disobedience" by Ryan Wilson
Imagism 3: The Thing Itself
Imagism Pt. 2: The House That Hulme Built
The Road to Imagism, Pt. 1: 19th Century Origins
On Translation: Heredia et Moi
"The Heirloom" by Michael Donaghy
"Phantom V" by Don Paterson
"Sunlight" by Thom Gunn
"At Mornington" by Gwen Harwood
The Rainbow Mythos: The Songcraft of Ronnie James Dio
"The Coronet" by Andrew Marvell
"Angle of Geese" by N. Scott Momaday
"The End Of The Weekend" by Anthony Hecht
"The Birth of God" by Daniel Brown
"Simple Autumnal" by Louise Bogan
To My Artist Friends, Part II (feat. SLEERICKETS)
To My Artist Friends, Part I (feat. SLEERICKETS)
Some Problems With Confessionalism
"Rosh Hashanah" by Elijah Perseus Blumov
"Through The Water" by James Matthew Wilson
"Mother Carey's Hen" by David Yezzi
"The Sponge" by Joshua Mehigan
Haydn In Plain Style: An Interview With Dick Davis
"Athena" by Amy Clampitt
"Trolling For Blues" by Richard Wilbur
"East Coker IV" by T.S. Eliot
"Voyages II" by Hart Crane
"Eros" by Robert Bridges
"May My Enemy Be Assuaged" by Derek Walcott
What Poetry Is (And Isn't)
The Idea Of A Poetry Conservatory
"Funeral Doom Metal" by Elijah Perseus Blumov
"Paradise Saved" by A.D. Hope
"The Wall" by Donald Justice
"God Works In A Mysterious Way" by Gwendolyn Brooks
"To An Absence" by Brian Brodeur
"Holy Sonnet IX" by John Donne
"Send Forth the High Falcon" by Leonie Adams
"Last Rites" by Ernest Hilbert
"Luke Havergal" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Fishing" by A.E. Stallings
The Case For Meter and Rhyme, Part 2
The Case For Meter and Rhyme, Part 1
"DMT" by Elijah Perseus Blumov
"Unholy Sonnet 16" by Mark Jarman
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"I Read My Sentence Steadily" by Emily Dickinson
"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" by John Keats
"Contra Dante (Kind Of)" by Bill Coyle
"Paradiso XIV, 63" by Matthew Buckley Smith
"Epitaph" by Gwendolyn Bennett
"The Metaphysical Amorist" by J.V. Cunningham
"Marriage As A Problem of Universals" by Dick Davis
What Is Art? What Is It For? An Inquiry
"The Eclipse of Meaning" by Elijah Perseus Blumov
"La Corrida" by Robert Hayden
"Error Pursued" by Helen Pinkerton
"Hap" By Thomas Hardy
"Country Burial" by Janet Lewis
"The Course of a Particular" by Wallace Stevens
"Organic Bloom" by Stanley Kunitz
"Church Monuments" by George Herbert
"In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke
"A Song For Rising" by Edgar Bowers