Text of poem here (Note: this is an older version, and some lines have changed). 

 

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

 

-My Ryan Wilson episode

-My Mark Jarman episode

-Ryan's corrections and very gracious explanation

-The Contemporary Poetry Review

-Jan's wonderfully kooky website 

-THINK Journal's Critical Path Symposium

-The aquastentialist poem

-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters

-"Le Cimitiere Marin" by Paul Valery

-Ukiyo

-Ask not for whom the bell buoy tolls

-"The Bell Buoy" by Rudyard Kipling

-An etiology of sirens

-Artist vs. Mystic

-"No Man Is An Island" (a sermon excerpt, not a poem) by John Donne

-Aware and Aware 

-De Profundis

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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 (/ /)