Topics mentioned in this episode:

-The use of the term “poetry” and the death of the genuine article

-Building metrical literacy

-My essay “The Iron Lyre”

-Modern small-souledness

-My essay “The Poisoned Well: Melville and Gnosticism”

-My essay “The Monumentalist Manifesto”

-“Science, Politics, and Gnosticism” by Eric Voegelin

-“The Whiteness of the Whale” in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”

-“The Gnostic Gospels” ed. Elaine Pagels 

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

-“The Maldive Shark” by Melville

-My episode “Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero” 

-“The Brothers Karamazov” by Dostoevsky

-My episode “What is Art? What Is It For?” 

-“J.V. Cunningham's Counter-Revolution” by James Matthew Wilson

-“Poetry and Religion” by Les Murray

-Myth as the missing link between philosophy, religion, and 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 (/ /)

Text of poem here

Soundtrack to this episode 

Topics discussed in this episode: 

-The University of St. Thomas, Houston 

-"The Flaming Heart" by Mario Praz

-Giambattista Marino

-Metaphysical vs. Baroque

-The poetry of rapture

-The Greek Anthology

-Laudianism 

-Crashaw's Teresa poems

-Mixed meter and phantom beats

-"Venus and Adonis" by Billy Shakes

-The saintly grief in your wedding ring

-Aurora, not Selene! 

-"The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" by Sir Philip Sidney

-"On a Drop of Dew" by Andrew Marvell

-The nurturing sublime

-A humanized heaven in human eyes 

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The MFA Program at the University of St. Thomas

-My episode on Ryan’s poem “Disobedience”

-"How to Think Like a Poet" by Ryan Wilson

-Wiseblood Books

-New editions of Dryden and Pope soon come!

-“The Catholic Writer Today” by Dana Gioia

-David Rothman

-New Verse Review’s St. Thomas issue

-“A Season in Hell” by Arthur Rimbaud

-“Pure and Impure Poetry” by Robert Penn Warren

-The Fugitives, Agrarians, and New Critics

-“The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot

-“Dante” by T.S. Eliot

-“The World’s Body” by John Crowe Ransom

-“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

-“From Ritual to Romance” by Jessie Weston

-“Proteus Bound” by Ryan Wilson

-“El Desdichado” by Gerard de Nerval

-“An Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke

-Joyce’s “Ulysses” and the mythic method

-Aestheticism and Theophile Gautier

-Negative Capability

-Blake, Picasso, and derangement

-Four Roses whiskey (sponsor me!)

-“Rob Roy,” by Sir Walter Scott

-“For the Highway Medians” by Matthew Buckley Smith

-“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick

-A hypostatic, moral exegesis of the Odyssey

-The Aeneid as tragedy

-“Imitations” by Robert Lowell

-Plutarch’s “Lives”

-“Annus Mirabilis” by John Dryden

-Dryden vs. Pope

-Pope’s “Ode On Solitude” and “Essay On Man”

-“Heorot” by Ryan Wilson

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

Wiseblood Books

The University of St. Thomas MFA Program

My episode on James Matthew Wilson

"The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking" by James Matthew Wilson

"The Wayward Thomist" by James Matthew Wilson

The Complete Essays of J.V. Cunningham

Jacques Maritain

"Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky

"La Vita Nuova" by Dante

Matthew 16

"In Ghostlight" by Ryan Wilson

"The River of the Immaculate Conception" by James Matthew Wilson

"Mass of the Americas" by Frank La Rocca

"The Bridge" by Hart Crane

"The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot

“Tradition and the Individual Talent” by T.S. Eliot

“Four Quartets” by T.S. Eliot

“The Illusion of Reaction” by Yvor Winters

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

“Missing Measures” by Timothy Steele

F.T. Prince

“Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century” by Herman Melville

My episode on Helen Pinkerton

“Love in the Western World” by Denis de Rougemont

“Agape and Eros” by Anders Nygren

“The Marriage” by Yvor Winters 

“Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor

“Wiped Out” by James Matthew Wilson

“The Moon and Sixpence” by W. Somerset Maugh

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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 (/ /)

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 (/ /)

Poems/Prose Lyrics featured:

"The Eagles" by Jones Very

"The Oracles" by A.E. Housman

"An Equation" by Hyam Plutzik

"Plato and the Serpent" by Catherine Davis

"Crow's Theology" by Ted Hughes

"Changeling" by Rhina Espaillat

"Hardy" by Robert Mezey

"The Master of Metaphor" by Carl Dennis

"Lust" by J.D. McClatchy

"An Incident in the Sublime" by Wyatt Prunty

Poems/Prose Lyrics mentioned:

"Jones Very in the Parlor" by Brian Brodeur

"The Proverbs of Hell" by William Blake

"Antarctica" by Elijah Perseus Blumov

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode:

-Email me your questions!! 

-Cameron's substack, "Minor Tiresias"

-My poem, "At Woodlawn" in Merion West

-My poem, "Aztec Support" in Light

-My episode on Learning the Secrets of English Verse

-"Missing Measures" and "All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" by Timothy Steele

-De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum

-"Notes On Metre" by Otto Jespersen

-The Trager-Smith school of linguistics

-The Halle-Keyser theory of prosody

-Paul Kiparsky

-Seymour Chapman

-"The Rhythms of English Poetry" by Derek Attridge

-"The Origin of Writing" by Roy Harris

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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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode

Text of poem here

Send me your AMA questions for Versecraft 100!

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Greatest Generation poets

-"Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry" by Howard Nemerov

-"De Anima" by Aristotle

-On loose iambics

-The ghost of Sapphics

-A transexual volta

-Life engenders the great romance of death

-"Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

-The nature of empathy and tragedy

-Orpheus and Eurydice and my Shane McCrae Episode

-Cupid like you've never seen him before

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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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode

Text of poem:

Bird Watcher

It returns to the same nest. The watcher lies

beneath spring brushwood to await its coming–

at watch so long he dreams himself becoming

less than himself and more, the landscape’s eyes. 

Though far beyond his eyes, beyond the range

of field-glasses, he knows it breaks no bonds: 

its instinct to his knowledge corresponds,

riding the current of the season’s change. 

What is there in a small bird’s blood that learns

to plot its course by sun and stars, being drawn

yearly toward a lost, remembered dawn? 

The watcher broods on this. The bird returns.

And all its colours flash where he attends–

a deep blue mantling rust and white. It sings

caged in his retina; then on curving wings

veers off to vanish where the human ends. 

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My episode with Zina and David on Fireside Chat

-My essay, The Iron Lyre

-My essay, The Monumentalist Manifesto

-Subscribe to the Versecraft substack! 

-Also subscribe to Zina, David, Matthew, Ethan, Alice, Steve, and Chris's substacks!

-My interview with Dick Davis

-John Ruskin and William Morris

-The Books of Enoch

-"To A Waterfowl" by William Cullen Bryant

-"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens

-A Poeta Ad Avem

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Go buy Learning the Secrets of English Verse!

-The Monumentalist Manifesto

-My episode, The Idea Of A Poetry Conservatory

-Poetry as skill

-The Fitzgerald system of scansion

-Parallelism, Syllabics, Loose Iambics, Stress-counting, rhyme-driving, sprung rhythm, oh my!

-"All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" by Timothy Steele

-Sonnets don't cure polio, but they're pretty great.

-Rhyme Royal, Ottava Rima, Spenserians, Onegin, oh my!

-L'dor Vador

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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 (/ /)