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Poems discussed on this episode include:

1. "Are They Shadows" by Samuel Daniel
2. "To Heaven" by Ben Jonson
3. "The Kraken" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
4. "Aspecta Medusa" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
5. Sonnet VII by George Santayana
6. "Rock and Hawk" by Robinson Jeffers
7. "What Are Years" by Marianne Moore
8. "My Son, My Executioner" by Donald Hall
9. "Drought" by Catherine Chandler (see show transcript for text)
10. "Elegy" by John Dunn Smith

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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 about the little skip in the concluding reading-- don't know why that happened. 

Text of the poem here.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-"In Defense of Reason" by Yvor Winters

-"A Winters Tale" on SLEERICKETS

-"The Seriousness of Yvor Winters" by David Yezzi

-"The Absolutist: Yvor Winters" by Jan Schreiber

-"What You Need to Know About Yvor Winters" by James Matthew Wilson (also includes other cool links!)

-"Wisdom and Wilderness" by Dick Davis

-The morality of poetry and evaluative criticism

-The Wintersian legacy
-Yes, he really does sound like that

-The superiority of the heroic couplet

-Flesh, spirit, and sexual-religious vegetables

-Love vs. lust

-Poems that outlast everlasting love

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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:

-RIP N. Scott Momaday

-Gather ye old buds while ye may

-32 Poems

-David's new collection, Newly Not Eternal

-"Iscariot's Psalm" by George David Clark

-Read the earlier version of "Shiversong" here

-The 'ol feminine-acephalous combo (we need a real name for this)

-Not rhythmic, but METRICAL modulation

-"The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens

-Job 38

-Lear 4:1

-"The Need Of Being Versed In Country Things" by Robert Frost

-"Boy At The Window" by Richard Wilbur

-The Agony In The Garden

-"My Prime Of Youth Is But A Frost Of Cares" by Chidiock Tichborne

-"Oh no! The rancor!" 

-Words are straw, and the poem is a scarecrow

Text of poem:

 
Shiversong

Given snow

That doesn’t flinch

To throw its pounds

Through heaven inch

By inch, that sows

A billion motes

Of chill into

This ground man can’t

Defend; and given

Wind that won’t

Begin to tell

Us how it’s driven,

Where it fell from,

What it’s meant

To blow and which

Proud limbs the clouds

Want riven since

It doesn’t dimly

Know, or even

Why the howling

Whims have pardoned

Us thus far;

Given such,

It’s hard to watch

The black-eyed scarecrow

Some fool left here

Miming care

Above the blighted

Garden, though

Tonight he seems

Intent to wrack

The soil and climb

The air, to fly,

To crash his flimsy

Cross against

The deadpan rancor

In the vast

Grim sky. 

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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 (Note: this is an older version, and some lines have changed). 

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-My Ryan Wilson episode

-My Mark Jarman episode

-Ryan's corrections and very gracious explanation

-The Contemporary Poetry Review

-Jan's wonderfully kooky website 

-THINK Journal's Critical Path Symposium

-The aquastentialist poem

-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters

-"Le Cimitiere Marin" by Paul Valery

-Ukiyo

-Ask not for whom the bell buoy tolls

-"The Bell Buoy" by Rudyard Kipling

-An etiology of sirens

-Artist vs. Mystic

-"No Man Is An Island" (a sermon excerpt, not a poem) by John Donne

-Aware and Aware 

-De Profundis

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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.

Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-Literary Matters

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

-Buy Ryan's books, including his new collection, "In Ghostlight,"  here

-"L'Estraneo" by Ryan Wilson

-"On A Baroque Wall Fountain in the Villa Sciarra" by Richard Wilbur

-"The Gardens of the Villa D'Este" by Anthony Hecht

-"The Venetian Vespers" by Anthony Hecht

-"See Naples and Die" by Anthony Hecht 

-The concept of the labyrinth

-"The Stones of Venice" by John Ruskin

-The Baudelairian method

-The Wordsworthian child archetype

-Venice has its reasons

-Strategic narrative distance

-In a satanic world, rebellion is godly. 

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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:

-"A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts By An Imagiste" by Ezra Pound

-A ruinous misunderstanding of meter and music

-"Intellectual-emotional complex" and unified sensibility

-"The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" by Ernest Fenollosa

-The ideogrammatic method

-Kiru, Wabi-Sabi, and Mono no Aware (see this fascinating wiki-page on Japanese aesthetics)

-"In A Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound

-"Fan-Piece For Her Imperial Lord" by Ezra Pound

-The Objective Correlative

-"Oread" by H.D.

-"The Pool" by H.D.

-"Des Imagistes" anthology

-Vorticism vs. "Amy-gism"

-"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams

-"This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams

-"Arrival" by William Carlos Williams

-Expressionist painter Egon Schiele

-"The Widow's Lament in Springtime" by William Carlos Williams

-Objectivism, Projectivism, Deep Imagism

-"The Diver" by Peter Vertacnik, and his book, "The Nature of Things Fragile"

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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: Yes, I know "Sailing to Byzantium" was written like 20 years after "Conversion." By the time I realized my anachronism, it was too late. Something something Borges retroactive influence... 


Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Mary Renault's "The King Must Die." 

-Decadence begets Primitivism

-Gauguin, Picasso, Stravinsky

-Gustave Kahn and vers libre

-T.E. Hulme's essay, Lecture On Modern Poetry

-T.E. Hulme's essay, Romanticism and Classicism

-Symbolism vs. Imagism

-The conservative flavor of 20th century Classicism 

-Science, Politics, and Gnosticism by Eric Voegelin

-Gettin' zesty

-Autumn by T.E. Hulme

-Conversion by T.E. Hulme

-The saga continues...

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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:

-What is Modernism?

-Various dichotomies

-The French origins of Modernism

-Charles Baudelaire and the Decadent movement

-Stephane Mallarme and Symbolism/Impressionism

-Eliot, Laforgue, Corbiere, and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

-Hugo vs. Baudelaire

-Edgar Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition" and "On the Poetic Principle"

-Theophile Gautier's "Emaux et Camees" and Aestheticism

-"L'Art" by Theophile Gautier

-Parnassianism, pseudo-classicism, and convergent evolution

-Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and "Critique of Judgement"

-Noumenal vs. Phenomenal

-Buddhism and the Four Noble Truths

-Arthur Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation"

-Interested and Disinterested Pleasure 

-"Le Vent Froid de la Nuit" by Leconte de Lisle

-"The Convergence of the Twain" by Thomas Hardy

-"The Eagle" and "The Kraken" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

-"La Mort de L'Aigle" by Jose Maria de Heredia

-Dinggedicht and Rilke's "Neue Gedichte"

-"Schlangen-Beschworung" by Rainer Maria Rilke

-"On Naive and Sentimental Poetry" by Friedrich Schiller

-The second coming of Parnassianism...

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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:

-Order George David Clark's new book, Newly Not Eternal here!

-Order John Wall Barger's new book, The Elephant of Silence here! 

-On the necessity of verse translation, feat. Bob and Paul 

-Metaphrase and Paraphrase

-The Blumov Method of translation

-Jacques Barzun's An Essay On French Verse

-Romanticism in Realism's clothing

-The tyranny of Hugo

-Parnassianism and other ideologies of contraction

-Buy John Anson's lovely translation of Les Trophees here! 

Support the show

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Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.

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TikTok:  @versecraft
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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.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Midlife by Matthew Buckley Smith

-The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse by Christopher Childers

-Khosrow and Shirin by Dick Davis

-In Ghostlight by Ryan Wilson

-A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By The Eye by Penelope Pelizzon

-The Nature of Things Fragile by Peter Vertacnik

-My poem Tlaloc on E-Verse Radio

-SLEERICKETS and Versecraft do tragedy, Part I and Part II

-Thank you for your sharp ears, Dan Brown! 

-The Metaphysical vogue

-Starting with the man in the mirror

-Letting the sunshine in

-The (grindcore noises) DUMPSTER OF DEATH

Support the show

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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 (/ /)