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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Encountering the phantom of Crane

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-The lamentable pedigree of the poete maudit

-Life Savers! 

-Why isn't there a movie yet about Harry Crosby? 

-Nothing says Guggenheim fellowship like some tropical adultery

-Neo-Romantics revisited 

-The "Logic of Metaphor" and Logonautics

-Poets as caretakers of language

-Cubic symmetry! 

-Rhymed vs. Blank verse

-The mighty Marlovian line

-The ocean: best wingwoman ever

-Romeo and Juliet's hidden sonnet

-John Donne's incredibly raunchy To His Mistress Going To Bed

-Walt Whitman's Song of Myself 21

-My seal of approval

-As it is written, so will it be done

Text of poem:

Voyages II

—And yet this great wink of eternity,

Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings,   

Samite sheeted and processioned where   

Her undinal vast belly moonward bends,   

Laughing the wrapt inflections of our love;

Take this Sea, whose diapason knells   

On scrolls of silver snowy sentences,

The sceptred terror of whose sessions rends   

As her demeanors motion well or ill,   

All but the pieties of lovers’ hands.

And onward, as bells off San Salvador   

Salute the crocus lustres of the stars,

In these poinsettia meadows of her tides,—

Adagios of islands, O my Prodigal,

Complete the dark confessions her veins spell.

Mark how her turning shoulders wind the hours,   

And hasten while her penniless rich palms   

Pass superscription of bent foam and wave,—

Hasten, while they are true,—sleep, death, desire,   

Close round one instant in one floating flower.

Bind us in time, O Seasons clear, and awe.   

O minstrel galleons of Carib fire,

Bequeath us to no earthly shore until

Is answered in the vortex of our grave

The seal’s wide spindrift gaze toward paradise.

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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 (/ /)

The missing word at 23:18 is "ironically"

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My thanks to Heights Arts for the feature! 

-Hopkins and Bridges: name a more iconic duo.

-Sprung Rhythm vs. Syllabics

-Bridges' whacky work of logometry, Milton's Prosody

-18th century in the streets, 19th century in the sheets

-Iambic tetrameter couplets and the Hallmark effect

-No more unqualified ahistorical scansions! Mea culpa. 

-Robbie's vision of elision

-Congrats! It's triplets. 

-Polytheism is the deification of allegorical thinking

-Eros only wants one thing, and it's disgusting

-Not in my good Christian poem! 

-To be pagan is to be unconscious of fallenness

-A terrifying force of nature has never been sexier

-The raison d'etre of Anna and Emma

-Eros and Psyche

-It's all more and less than you think. 

Text of Poem:

Eros

Why hast thou nothing in thy face?

Thou idol of the human race,

Thou tyrant of the human heart,

The flower of lovely youth that art;

Yea, and that standest in thy youth

An image of eternal Truth,

With thy exuberant flesh so fair,

That only Pheidias might compare,

Ere from his chaste marmoreal form

Time had decayed the colours warm;

Like to his gods in thy proud dress,

Thy starry sheen of nakedness.

Surely thy body is thy mind,

For in thy face is nought to find,

Only thy soft unchristen’d smile,

That shadows neither love nor guile,

But shameless will and power immense,

In secret sensuous innocence.

O king of joy, what is thy thought?

I dream thou knowest it is nought,

And wouldst in darkness come, but thou

Makest the light where’er thou go.

Ah yet no victim of thy grace,

None who e’er long’d for thy embrace,

Hath cared to look upon thy face.

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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:

-Fallout from last week

-The poetry-prose spectrum, and those pesky in-betweeners

-Amphibrachs for days

-Parallelism, and how to sound "biblical"

-The universal accessibility of beauty

-Rain on a sunny day is called WHAT?

-The feminization of landscape

-Hopefully the only time I'll mention Kanye on this show.

-Hopkins cameo!

-Totally tubular priests

-If it ain't Baroque...

-My excursion to the Virgins

-The myth of the Noble Savage (Rousseau sucks eggs)

-It always comes back to Adam and Eve

-Spacetime as a fresco of divine art 

-Toggling between the cosmic and the moral world 

Text of lyric: 

May my enemy be assuaged by these waves
 because they are beautiful even to his evil,
 may the drizzle be a benediction to his heart
 even as it is to mine; they say here that the devil
 is beating his wife when the sun shines through the wires
 of fine, fine rain. It is not my heart that forgives
 my enemy his obscene material desires
 but the flare of a leaf, the dart of a mottled dove,
 the processional surplices of breakers entering the cove
 as penitents enter the dome to the lace of an altar;
 beauty so shaping neither condemns nor saves
 like the tenets of my enemy’s church, the basilicas
 of tumbling cherubs and agonized saints and riots
 of purpureal cloud; though I have cause
 I will share the world’s beauty with my enemies
 even though their greed destroys the innocence
 of my Adamic island. My enemy is a serpent
 as much as he is in a fresco, and he in all his
 scales and venom and glittering head is
 part of the island’s beauty; he need not repent.

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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 (/ /)

Apologies for the sirens around the thirteen minute mark. I should've stopped up my mic with wax! 

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Welcome back everyone!!

-A litany of my recent international escapades

-Spoiler: Poetry is Versecraft (cue flame war)

-Problem 1: Non-metrical gatekeeping

-Problem 2: The mystical word-sorcerors want their poetry back 

-Descriptive vs. Prescriptive definitions (an MBS favorite) 

-Who gave me the right??

-The great "Poetry" robbery

-Problems with "Formal Verse"

-I'm not more radical now, just more honest

-Why is everyone afraid of prose? 

-Aristotle's genres: Epic (or Narrative), Drama, Lyric

-The messy problem of Lyric

-Mode vs. Genre

-Mode vs. Style

-Belletrism, or Logonautics

-50 Shades of Poetry 

-Achieving distinction, becoming distinguished

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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:

-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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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's episode A Winter's Tale Pt. 2 

-Alice's episode Grilling Elijah Blumov 

-Why Metal is NOT Rock 

-"Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath

-"Mars, The Bringer of War" by Gustav Holst

-Neoclassical Metal and Symphonic Metal

-Portrait of the Artist As A Young Dork

-"Stand Up And Fight" by Turisas

-"Twilight of the Thunder God" by Amon Amarth

-"Run To The Hills" by Iron Maiden

-The sacred bond of Metalheads

-Where Classical, Metal, and Poetry converge

-"Bells of the Black Basilica" by Tyranny

-The Tale of Bill and Fran

-The Self-Grilling of Elijah Blumov

-Rime Riche, Rime Sufisante, Rime Pauvre

-Romain Rolland and the Oceanic Mind

-Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents 

-Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde

-Schopenhauer's Aesthetics 

-What people get wrong about Stoicism

-Why Metal vocalists sounds like that

-Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Panther"

-We are a microcosm of the dying world

-The Birth, Death, and Life of Tragedy 

Text of poem:

Funeral Doom Metal

Flooding chords submerge the arid mind

until it knows itself as oceanic—

the crushing weight of death, of fate, of time,

is bound to sound, and so is purged of panic.

Stoic longing, without hope for hopes,

when beautified, becomes a kind of peace—

the demon of the soul wails in its ropes,

and mimics pain so its true pain will cease. 

Slowly drowning, slowly marching toward

the end of all, the universal doom,

the artist recognizes a reward

in the contemplation of the coming tomb,

and becoming, out of drowning, his own ocean,

at home within the tragedy of motion. 

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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 (/ /)

Tech woes: Audio cuts out briefly at 11:56. Sorry! 

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-Please send all your John Forbes and Jane Kenyon hate mail to Alice at [email protected] 

-My upcoming Poetry Says episode on Gwen Harwood and my role as the prosodic gadfly/mustache-twirling villain of contemporary poetry. 

-Read my poem "The Virtue of Corinthian Columns" here .

-Read my poem "Thalassic Hymn" here . 

-The show will be on hiatus in June! Sorry :(

-Let's get Versecraft in the classroom! 

-Join my bookclub forum on "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea" here

-Alice's brilliant episode on Australian poetry culture, Funny Ha Ha 

-Cultural Cringe 

-Be the Poseidon of the tides of fashion

-The Curious Case of the Third Foot Trochaic Substitution

-Counter-factuals reveal the actuals.

-A bit of ribbing

-It's about time we talked metonymy

-Pride and Punishment

-Eliot's "The Wasteland," and the line he stole from Tennyson

-Hypallage returns!

-Not Donald's justice, but God's justice.

-"Hell is more than half of paradise" 

-Adam has no rizz.

-Theravada vs. Mahayana Buddhism

-All you need is love, and whatever else Aristotle said.

Text of poem:

Paradise Saved

Adam, indignant, would not eat with Eve,

They say, and she was driven from his side.

Watching the gates close on her tears, his pride

Upheld him, though he could not help but grieve,

And climbed the wall, because his loneliness

Pined for her lonely figure in the dust:

Lo, there were two! God who is more than just

Sent her a helpmeet in that wilderness.

Day after day he watched them in the waste

Grow old breaking the harsh unfriendly ground,

Bearing their children, till at last they died.

While Adam, whose fellow God had not replaced,

Lived on immortal, young, with virtue crowned,

Sterile and impotent and justified.

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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 (/ /)

Tech woes: There's some static at 10:36 where I say "end rhyme." Sorry!

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Wonderful exchanges with David, Robert , Quartez , Jack, Cameron , and Kevin.
-The Iowa Writer's Workshop
-Philip Levine's The Bread of Time
-Rhythmic modulations (a spondee it ain't!)
-This is the literary device. This is the moment. This is anaphora.
-Adam and Eve are unfazed by your divine glory.
-Proverbs 9:1
-False Utopias
-Poe's The Imp of the Perverse
-Felix Culpa Redux
-Virgil's Georgics
-Goated bible verse Isaiah 45:7
-Blake's The Tyger 
-The Chronic(what!)cles of Narnia
-Ersatz fruit would be a good band name
-Satan is the god of this world
-The burden and blessing of intelligence

Text of poem:

The Wall

for J.B. 

The wall surrounding them they never saw;

The angels, often. Angels were as common

As birds or butterflies, but looked more human.

As long as the wings were furled, they felt no awe.

Beasts, too, were friendly. They could find no flaw

In all of Eden: this was the first omen.

The second was the dream which woke the woman.

She dreamed she saw the lion sharpen his claw.

As for the fruit, it had no taste at all.

They had been warned of what was bound to happen.

They had been told of something called the world.

They had been told and told about the wall.

They saw it now; the gate was standing open.

As they advanced, the giant wings unfurled.

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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: Line 9 also differs from lines 2 and 13 by containing a first foot trochaic substitution. 

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Listen to my new episode with Matthew here ! 

-Check out Ethan McGuire's work here and here.

-Check out Brian Brodeur's work here.

-The Black Arts Movement

-Brooks vs. Hayden

-ANOTHER hybrid sonnet?? (No!)

-Rhythmic motifs

-William Cowper's Light Shining Out of Darkness , The Task, and The Iliad. 

-The Sermon On the Mount

-For clod's sake

-More rhymes, more furious

-Psalm 23

-In Bright Mansions 

-Christian Wiman's article, Mortify Our Wolves

-The Sermon, Remounted.

-Nietzsche's "The Gay Science"

-I'll mortify these puppies my damn self.

Text of Poem:

“God Works In A Mysterious Way”

But often now the youthful eye cuts down its

own dainty veiling. Or submits to winds.

And many an eye that all its age had drawn its

beam from a Book endures the impudence

of modern glare that never heard of tact

or timeliness, or Mystery that shrouds

immortal joy: it merely can direct

chancing feet across dissembling clods.

Out from Thy shadows, from Thy pleasant meadows,

quickly, in undiluted light. Be glad, whose

mansions are bright, to right Thy children’s air.

If Thou be more than hate or atmosphere

step forth in splendor, mortify our wolves.

Or we assume a sovereignty ourselves.

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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 (/ /)

Content Warning: Abortion, dead fetuses

Mea culpa: Ugh, I should've said "volta italiana." What a philistine I am. 

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-Lake View Cemetery and the Haserot Angel 

-Getting called out from beyond the grave

-Come see me read!  

-Brian Brodeur!  

-My Great-Uncle, Elton Glaser 

-Buy Brian's latest book: Some Problems With Autobiography 

-Wins and almost-wins in The Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Contest. 

-Yet more ways to make formal poems sound contemporary 

-The art of rhymes that don't rhyme 

-Another hybrid sonnet? 

-The triumphant return of the pyrrhic-spondee. 

-When Facebook stalking is part of podcast research

-Radford's Meat Market is real. 

-The dark truth by which we see

-The haunting of Brian Brodeur

-Is guilt itself a crime?

-Displacement Activity 

-Verbal dentistry

-How joy is deepened by suffering

-A dripping bag of redemption 

Text of poem:

To An Absence

The kid in latex gloves at Radford’s beef

brown-bags my five-pound brisket, saying, “Dude,

have a blessed day.” I do the math—you’d be

a teenager, his age. Across the counter,

the brisket drips (the kid grinning, “My bad”),

but all I feel for you is gratitude

for the life your death allowed—my wife and daughter

I’d like one day to see I might deserve. 

And would deserve, I think, if I could live

without the guilt I tongue like a decayed

incisor I’ve refused to have removed—

afraid what joy I’ve known might disappear 

without a counter-pain to root it here. 

The kid says, “Wait,” and stamps my brisket PAID. 

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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 (/ /)