Of The Poet’s Heart

M. Anthony C. shares his hunt for one nun's poetry, and his thoughts about the aftertaste of poems. He then shares his mother's German Pancake recipe which is packaged in a poem. If you'd like to read the poem's text, go to manthonyc.substack.com, or click here. If you'd like to support the podcast, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart or click here.

M. Anthony C. shares a tiny poem about a sneaky spider. Trigger Warning: do not read if you have arachnophobia. You may read it on manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging or sharing this podcast. To support more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart 

M. Anthony C. shares a tiny poem about water bears. You may read it on manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging or sharing this podcast. To support more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart 

M. Anthony C. shares a poem from his master's thesis "Dear Isa." You may read it on manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging or sharing this podcast. To support more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart 

In this canto, M. Anthony C. muses over Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as a rare example of Shakespeare being original. He then shares a poem in progress which sets up and then flouts its own expectations.  To read the poem again, go to manthonyc.substack.com or click here. If you'd like to support his work, consider liking or sharing this podcast. Or, if you want to support him more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart or click here. 

M. Anthony C. ponders on the importance of theme in poetry and then shares a poem about a water bear. If you would like to support me directly, go to https://buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart or click here.

M. Anthony C. recounts translating a sonnet into English and muses on one thing that people and poems have in common. He then reads a poem from his "Dear Isa" thesis. 

M. Anthony C. shares a short, rhyming poem about someone else on a tandem bike. To read it, go to manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging with or sharing this podcast. If you want to support me more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart or click here. 

M. Anthony C. shares a tiny poem about a Giant Squid (written in sapphics). You may read it on manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging or sharing this podcast. To support more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart 

M. Anthony C. shares a poem about driving up a canyon in autumn. You may read it on manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging or sharing this podcast. To support more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart 

M. Anthony C. shares his thoughts on Romeo and Juliet, then shares a ghazal (pronounced guzzle) he is working on, a sprawling form from the Middle East that is only held only together by its repetitions and rhymes. To read the poem, go to manthonyc.substack.com. If you'd like to support my work, you can engage with and share this podcast, or go to buymeacoffe.com/ofthepoetsheart

M. Anthony C. muses over "A Jellyfish" by Marianne Moore and shares his poem about the Giant Squid. Support him at buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart or by commenting. If you'd like to read this poem again, go to manthonyc.substack.com .

M. Anthony talks about humanity's innate ability to appreciate poetry. He then shares a poem about driving through the canyons of Utah in Autumn. If you would like to read the poem, you may do so here. 

M. Anthony C. shares another poem from the Dear Isa: May-September. This poem was originally an actual letter that was sent to Isa, my wife, while she was on a religious mission in Ecuador. This poem was first published in Slant Magazine in December 2021. You may read it here. 

M. Anthony C. shares a poem bewildered by the appearance of a new, purple weed. You may read it here. 

M. Anthony C. share a poem exploring life using the theater as the conceit. You may read it here. 

M. Anthony C. muses on the sestina form and shares one that talks about travels in Spain and finding love.

To the sound of the rain, M. Anthony shares shapes changed into new bodies, ponders online discussions trying to define poetry, and shares a poem about a charming weed. To read the poem again, go here. 

In this episode, M. Anthony C., the sounds of a campfire, ponders Millay's "Eel-grass," and shares his own growth in writing poetry. He then shares a poem about a speaker wearing harlequin. 

To the sounds of a forest wind, M. Anthony C. talks about Emily Dickinson and does a close reading of the Higginson Version of one of her poems, which, sadly, is missing its last stanza. Read the full poem here. 

M. Anthony C. shares a poem without commentary or effect. If you would like to read "Memorial House," please do so in the substack. 

M. Anthony C. shares a poem without commentary or effect. If you would like to read "Flying Coach One Tuesday Afternoon," please read it in the substack. 

In this episode, a poem is shared without effect or commentary. If you would like to read it, please do so on M. Anthony C.'s substack. 

M. Anthony C. shares his joy at reading one play of Shakespeare's a month with his poetry pals. He then shares a poem he's in the middle of revising that is responding to the play "Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare, part of an ongoing collection of his responding to the works of Shakespeare. 

M. Anthony C. shares his latest semi-poetic studies, watching and reading V for Vendetta, and shares how he has tried to write a poem in a similar rhythm to the folksong about Guy Fawkes. He then shares a short poem about flying in economy. To read "Flying Coach One Tuesday Afternoon," go to M. Anthony's substack. 

M. Anthony C. muses on the fragments of Sappho and how he experimented with an English adaptation of her ancient meter. He shares how poets build their "own society" by celebrating with both the living and the dead. M. Anthony then shares the prelude poem of his master's thesis, Dear Isa: May-September. To read the poem, please see M. Anthony's substack. 

M. Anthony C. shares a bonus poem that he wrote while paddle boarding at Sloan's Lake Park. To read it, go to M. Anthony's substack. 

M. Anthony C. shares the poem from Canto 2 without commentary or effect. To read it, go to M. Anthony's substack.

M. Anthony C. shares the poem from Canto 1 without commentary or effect. To read it, go to M. Anthony's substack.

In a rare move, M. Anthony C. provides a footnote to his podcast, a comment on its structure and ambition: 1st and 2nd Saturdays of each month are for finished poems; 3rd Saturdays for a poem in development; 4th Saturdays for recordings of the first two poems shared along with a bonus, finished one; 5th Saturdays for anything the poet's heart desires. M. Anthony wishes to share his poetry with the general public. 

M. Anthony C. shares how he has been reading Yeats and then draws back the curtain on his own writing process, sharing one poem in development that was born from some experiments in line lengths. He shares a poem made of lines with about four syllables in them each (iambic dimeter). There is no substack post corresponding to poems in development. 

M. Anthony C. shares that his Shakespeare club is reading "Love's Labour's Lost" and uses that as an opportunity to reflect on rhyme and how it is at the very foundation of the poetry of modern English. He then shares a sonnet where a speaker meditates on their day while watching a campfire burn. To read the poem, go to M. Anthony's substack. 

In his podcasting debut, M. Anthony C., an upcoming poet, shares what he's been reading this week, writing this week, and why he thinks poetry is delicious. He ends the podcast by sharing an ekphrastic poem about how a statue in Madrid changed his life for good. To read the poem, go to M. Anthony's substack.