Topics discussed in this episode include:

Matthew Buckley Smith over at SLEERICKETS

Alice Allan over at Poetry Says and In Future Posts

Ethan McGuire over at The Flummoxed

Zina Gomez Liss over at The Beauty of Things

Cameron Clark over at Minor Tiresias

Rationalist, Socialist, Humanist, Bicameral Demo-Oligarchic Utopia?

Ironkraft and Cheesecraft

An 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 Job

Isaiah 45:7

Alitu and Buzzsprout

Kol Nidre

My episode with Zina and David on Fireside Chat

Harold Bloom

The Archimedean point

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My 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 Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List 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 (/ /)