Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Simple Syrup

-Why poetry?

-Poetry vs. Music

-David vs. Versecraft

-My "What Is Art?" episode

-The Case For Meter and Rhyme Part I

-The Case For Meter and Rhyme Part II

-The Case Against Versecraft by Matt Wall 

-"Cain" by Lord Byron

-"Empedocles On Etna" by Matthew Arnold

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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 (/ /)