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Topics discussed include: 

-Poets as actual legislators

-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

-"The Great Terror" by Robert Conquest

-The Movement redux

-"The Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant

-The epistemological turn

-Hyper-Apollonianism as contrary to poetry 

-Darkness and the imagination

-The gaucheness of lightning

-Serenity in Selenity 

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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 (/ /)

Read this essay on Substack!

Order my new chapbook here! 

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Frost Farm and the new generation of metricians 

-The Necklace of Harmonia and Against Oblivion

-The musical caesura

-"Uriel" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

-Ouroboros, yin-yang thinking

-"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" by Wallace Stevens

-The transcendental imagination

-Dante's Paradiso

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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 (/ /)

Read the essay here!

-"L'Envoi" by Herman Melville

-"Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century" by Melville

-"Clarel" by Melville

-"Moby-Dick" by Melville

-"The Maldive Shark" by Melville

-"The Confidence Man" by Melville

-"Timoleon" by Melville

-Gnostics, Cathars, and Bogomils

-Dualisms, Persian, French, and Indian

-White Symbolism: Lightning and the Whale

-Ahab's inverted Zoroastrianism-cum-Gnosticism

-The Ophites and Leviathan

-"Gnostic Mythos in Moby-Dick" by Thomas Vargish

-"Timaeus" by Plato

-"Historical and Critical Dictionary" by Pierre Bayle

-The Wintersian "post-symbolist" poem

-Reconciling with the squaliform demiurge

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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 (/ /)

Mea culpa: Sorry for the confusion-- of course I DID end up giving a recap of my adventures. 

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-Travel details mentioned: the Haar, Alfred Janniot, the Musee Branly, the museums in Nancy, Spinoza's homes

-Friends mentioned: Cameron Clark, David Klug, Niall Campbell, Gerry Cambridge, Victoria Moul

-The Movement and the New Lines anthology

-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

-Thomistic aesthetics

-The constructive, authorial nature of identity

-Heideggerian "thingness"

-Cartographers in the foreign lands of one another, themselves foreign lands.

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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 (/ /)

Read this essay (and see the poems) on Substack!

Poems discussed:

"The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the Desert" by Herman Melville (my Melville essay)

"Lucifer in Starlight" by George Meredith

"Cold-Blooded Creatures" by Elinor Wylie

"The Animals" by Edwin Muir

"Sunt Leones" by Stevie Smith (Fayne's essay)

"Beyond the Demonic Element" by Harvey Shapiro

"Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought" by X.J. Kennedy

"Halloween" by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (see also SLEERICKETS #2)

"The Beautiful Animal" by Geoffrey Brock

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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 (/ /)

Read this essay at The Sonneteer! 

Sonnet types discussed:

The Sicilian: ABAB ABAB, CDC DCD

The Italian: ABBA ABBA, CDC DCD

The English: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

The French: ABAB, CDCD, EEF, GGF

The Spenserian: ABAB, BCBC, CDCD, EE

The Miltonic: Italian, with enjambment, delayed volta, and non-courtly/erotic content

The Meredithian: ABBA, CDDC, EFFE, GHHG

The Pushkin: aBaB, ccDD, eFFe, GG

The Hilbertian: ABC ABC, DEF DEF, GG

The Terza Rima: ABA, BCB, CDC, DED, EE

The Hybrid: Various. Ex: ABBA ABBA, CDCD, EE

The Caudate: Various. Usually Italian, plus cauda (tail)

The Curtal: Various. Sestet plus “super-quatrain” (quatrain + hemistich)

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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 (/ /)

-Read this essay on Substack! 

-What is meter?

-10 Reasons to write in meter

-Kinds of meter (Accentual, Syllabic, Parellelist, Quantitative, Accentual-Syllabic)

-Kinds of feet (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Amphibrach, Dactyl)

-“Junk” by Richard Wilbur

-“Considering the Snail” by Thom Gunn

-KJV Psalm 23

-Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare

-“The Tyger” by William Blake

-“The Destruction of Sennacherib” by Lord Byron

-“O Where Are You Going?” by W.H. Auden

-Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman

-Speech stress vs. Relative stress (accent)

-The importance of “framing” in scansion

-Rhythmic modulation

-Common substitutions (feminine endings, reversed feet, acephalous lines)

-“All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing” by Timothy Steele

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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 (/ /)

Read this essay on Substack!

Topics discussed:

-Disco Demolition Night

-Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death" 

-See Matthew's great episode on the above

-Alice's essay, "On Fear"

-My essay, "The Iron Lyre"

-The Sleerickets episode "This Was Poetry"

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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 (/ /)

-Read the poems on my Substack!

-If there is a “West,” all Semites and Aryans are part of it

-Arab Classicism and the House of Wisdom

-Al Ma’arri

-Afzaladdin

-Moses Ibn Ezra

-Sehnsucht

-Ibn Iyad

-Manjik

-Dick Davis

-Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas”

-Proto-Imagism

-My long road to appreciating haiku

-Zen in the Art of Archery

-Matsuo Basho

-Ethan McGuire

-Kireji, Kigo, Jisei

-Minamoto no Shitago

-Howard Nemerov

-Derek Walcott

-Anne Stevenson

-Mary Jo Salter

-Motherhood and the feminine mystique

-John Frederick Nims

-Nicky Beer

-Sponsor an episode!!

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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 (/ /)

Read this essay (and view the poems) on Substack!

Topics discussed include:

The Monumentalist Manifesto

The Iron Lyre

Bright Soft Things (Crashaw Essay)

The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse trans. Christopher Childers

Asclepiades 6

Zonas 9

Argentarius 26

Martial 5.73, 1.73, 3.65

"Prayer" by George Herbert

"Cold Turkey" by Joshua Mehigan

"Upon the Body of Our Blessed Lord, Naked and Bloody" by Richard Crashaw

"To Our Lord, Upon the Water Made Wine," by Richard Crashaw

"God is my Final End" by Angelus Silesius

"The Rosebud Has No Why" by Angelus Silesius

"Why Do I Exist?" by Daniel Brown

"On My First Son" by Ben Jonson

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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 (/ /)