Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Versecraft will be on hiatus in June. See you again in July! 

-The wonderful educational resources available to Classical musicians

-The not-so-wonderful educational resources available to poets

-Why MFA programs don't cut it

-If creative writing "can't be taught" then poetic education becomes a joke

-No standards = total subjectivity = no legitimate curricula

-Recieved techniques are optional to use, but they are not optional to learn.

-The "World of Versecraft" program

-David Rothman's book, "Learning the Secrets of English Verse " 

-The core five: Independent Study, Classical Languages, English Literature, Poetic Technique, and Literary Criticism/Philosophy

-Why an independent study model is superior to a workshop model

-A defense of teaching Classical languages

-The curriculum at Helicon Conservatory of Poetry

-A call to action 

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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 (/ /)