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 (/ /)