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Soundtrack to this episodeThe original 10 Poems I Like"New Advances in Quitting Poetry" on SLEERICKETS"This is not Exactly What I Mean" on the SLEERICKETS Secret ShowMy Dante essay at Voegelin View!Poems discussed in this episode:"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats"Miriam Tazewell" by John Crowe Ransom"I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines" by Edna St. Vincent Millay"November Cotton Flower" by Jean Toomer"On Being Human" by C.S. Lewis"The Fall of Rome" by W.H. Auden"The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop"Our Lady of Walsingham" (from "A Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket") by Robert Lowell"St. Judas" by James Wright"Orthodox Christmas Eve" by Gail WhiteSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

12/3/24 • 37:20

Soundtrack to this episodeText of poem hereTopics discussed in this episode include:-Sentimentality-National character-Philip Larkin, novelist: "Jill," and "A Girl in Winter"-"The Movement" movement-The Oxford Book of 20th Century English Verse-"Church-Going" by Philip Larkin-The blindness of historical consciousness-Temporal and generational erosion-"Miniver Cheevy" by E.A. Robinson-Last lines and legacies-But is it sentimental??Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

11/20/24 • 29:06

Soundtrack to this episodeTopics discussed in this episode include:-Listen to my talk on Melville here-Listen to my poetry reading with Dan Brown here-Outsider poetry-The Education of Henry Adams-Metrical hijinks-The inherent negations of blindness-"Durer: Insbrook, 1495" by Ern Malley-"Lycidas" by John Milton-Forging a new sensibility in identitarian poetry Text of poem:The Education of the Blind Poet; Or, Ars Poetica Ending with a Line from Milton When I was 9 they taught me how to lookat someone as they spoke though I could seenothing: it's polite they said & I was, lookI'm staring at the nothing of you, see?My Nothing reader, pelted in your silence:silent in History I drilled my lackof stare into the history-shaped silenceof the confidential blackboard's black.The teacher, standing slightly to its rightscrawled her timelines onto its cold chalk down.See, teacher, have I not been studious: "Write what's on the board." & I noted nothing down.My No-Thing reader, ear pressed to the boardof words, how has your face become hers? mutelight stained her hair as she addressed the board,& I presided over absence, mute.All blind things learn to cleave to absence:stiff-uniformed moles shoulder their chalk-blank domeof earth. O Teacher to you I was absence,you who'd only bring yourself to speak óf measking always Does hé need help? in a voicehushed & mailed by its pity, pitywordscringing between your jaws. I knew that voiceas my inheritance: these blind mouths full of words.Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

11/6/24 • 27:46

Soundtrack to this episodeText of poem:The Last Act‘Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved, Now leaves him. It is too often only close to death,or utter failure, when the mind is heldto truth, we see the outlines of the gods,those whom we loved but never realized. Above us in a void burnt-out and cold,at unfamiliar heights their forms returnlike ghosts to move across the final night,remote and unappeased in our collapse.There is no bitterness in facing them. The heart that fatally kept them deprived,and saw them hostile to the living blood,will pay in blood its error, every vein. In what is not the gods are reconfirmed,the candor of their presence briefly seen. The tragedy leaves nothing else but that. Then they are gone. The music underground,the quiet terror of its shifting source,its echoes vanishing moves in their place. Topics discussed in this episode include:-Come see my Melville lecture tomorrow on Zoom!-New shirts!!-The precariousness of literary preservation, and our inestimable losses-My conversation with Tim Steele-Wiseblood Books! -Finlay's Collected Prose here and Collected Poetry here-"The Wayward Thomist" by James Matthew Wilson (COMING SOON!) -The gnosticism of Modernity -"Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" by Eric Voegelin-"Antony and Cleopatra" by Willy Shakes-"The God Abandons Antony" by Constantine Cavafy-The nature of the tragic-Negative/Apophatic Theology (Via Negativa)-"That We Should Not Be Considered Happy Until We Are Dead" by Michel de Montaigne-Juan de la Cruz-hamartia, hubris, sin-Ananke and the Music of the SpheresSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

10/23/24 • 27:23

Soundtrack to this episodeLink to poems! Read the Classical Outlook poetry issue here! NEW MERCH HERETo receive a link to the Critical Path Symposium, follow the email link at the bottom right of this pageTopics discussed in this episode include:-Philip Walsh and Rachel Hadas!-The Classical Outlook!-Classical Reception Studies-"44 Pastorals" by Rachel Hadas-Prosimetra/Haibun-"Prose of Departure" by James Merrill-"Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms" ed. by David Lehman-"Personal Best: Makers On Their Poems That Matter Most"-In praise of postludes-Rachel’s Euripides and Dionysiaca-"Achilles and Odysseus” by Susan McLean-“Mimesis” by Erich Auerbach-“Imaginary Conversations” by Walter Savage Landor-“The Songs of the Kings” by Barry Unsworth-“Circe” by Madeleine Miller-“The King Must Die” by Mary Renault-“Iphigenia” dir. Michael Cacoyannis-“The Silence of the Girls” by Pat Barker-The Feminist re-telling of Classical myths trend-“Liber Tertius Decimus” by Julia Griffin-“After the Fall” by David Katz-“The Mazemaker” by Michael Ayrton-“Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths” by Charlotte Higgins-“Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In” by Henry Eliot-“The House of Asterion” by Jorge Luis Borges-“The Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder-“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden-D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths-“Theseus and the Minotaur” by Edwin Muir-“Megalopolis” dir. Francis Ford Coppola-The Classical Outlook takes Princeton!Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

10/8/24 • 70:00

Als Zarathustra dreissig Jahr alt war, verliess er seine Heimat und den See seiner Heimat und ging in das Gebirge. Hier genoss er seines Geistes und seiner Einsamkeit und wurde dessen zehn Jahr nicht müde. Endlich aber verwandelte sich sein Herz,—und eines Morgens stand er mit der Morgenröthe auf, trat vor die Sonne hin und sprach zu ihr also: „Du grosses Gestirn! Was wäre dein Glück, wenn du nicht Die hättest, welchen du leuchtest! Zehn Jahre kamst du hier herauf zu meiner Höhle: du würdest deines Lichtes und dieses Weges satt geworden sein, ohne mich, meinen Adler und meine Schlange. Aber wir warteten deiner an jedem Morgen, nahmen dir deinen Überfluss ab und segneten dich dafür. Siehe! Ich bin meiner Weisheit überdrüssig, wie die Biene, die des Honigs zu viel gesammelt hat, ich bedarf der Hände, die sich ausstrecken. Ich möchte verschenken und austheilen, bis die Weisen unter den Menschen wieder einmal ihrer Thorheit und die Armen einmal ihres Reichthums froh geworden sind. Dazu muss ich in die Tiefe steigen: wie du des Abends thust, wenn du hinter das Meer gehst und noch der Unterwelt Licht bringst, du überreiches Gestirn! Ich muss, gleich dir, untergehen, wie die Menschen es nennen, zu denen ich hinab will. So segne mich denn, du ruhiges Auge, das ohne Neid auch ein allzugrosses Glück sehen kann! Segne den Becher, welcher überfliessen will, dass das Wasser golden aus ihm fliesse und überallhin den Abglanz deiner Wonne trage! Siehe! Dieser Becher will wieder leer werden, und Zarathustra will wieder Mensch werden.“ —Also begann Zarathustra’s Untergang.Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

10/1/24 • 08:08

Mea culpa: "The Neural Lyre" was published in 1983, not 1994. Don't know why I said that! Read today's poem hereTopics discussed in this episode include:-William Paley's watchmaker analogy-Problems with teleological arguments-Brandon Carter's Anthropic Principle-Multiverse/many worlds theory-John Archibald Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle-"It from bit"-George Berkeley's Idealism-Vedanta Hinduism-"The Anthropic Cosmological Principle" -Barrow and Tipler's Final Anthropic Principle-"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's theology of the noosphere and omega point-"Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor-Turner's essay, "The Neural Lyre" -Turner's book, "Natural Classicism"-Turner's epic poems: The New World, Genesis, Apocalypse-The transtemporal community of humanitySupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

9/24/24 • 25:25

Mea culpa: Apologies for my faint audio in the beginning! Soundtrack to this episode Second soundtrack, because... I had to. Topics discussed in this episode include:-Thom Gunn and some of his literary interests (Henry James, George Macdonald, Saki, Ovid, etc.)-My episode on Thom Gunn-My episode on Timothy Steele-Read The Classical Outlook!!-Writing from experience vs. writing from ideas-"Missing Measures" by Timothy Steele-All the Fun's In How You Say a Thing, 2nd Edition!-Desert Places by Robert Frost-How form informs content-The importance of rhythmic modulation-"The Audible Reading of Poetry" by Yvor Winters-"Versification: A Short Introduction" by James McAuley-The 20th century metrical Renaissance-Bring back verse epistles! -Yvor Winters's criticism: pro and contra-The Plain Style-The Stanford School: Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, J.V. Cunningham, Edgar Bowers, Helen Pinkerton, Thom Gunn, etc. -X.J. Kennedy-Palo Alto poets vs. San Francisco poets-The Curious Case of Thom Gunn-What Winters and Poe have in common-The Smith, Wilson, Clark reading-"Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of Steele"-Waiting for the Storm by Timothy Steele Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

9/11/24 • 57:30

Soundtrack to this episode (it's Stephen Kampa!)Topics discussed in this episode include:-Go read New Verse Review!-Go listen to my talk on SLEERICKETS about Horace's Ars Poetica!-Go listen to the mighty Fer de Lance!-The Sleerickets Stephen Kampa episode-Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason-From Transcendental Idealism to Transcendentalism-Romanticism as post-Kantian reaction -Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Freud, Coleridge, Emerson, etc. etc.-Contemptus Mundi-The inauthenticity of the nihilist everyman-The Protestant anti-rationalist tradition-Spooky Calvinist symbolism + German Romanticism + Hinduism 101 + Patriotism = Transcendentalism-Death and Love conceived ornithologically-More dialectical poems! Text of poem:Phenomena, Noumena, Startling SparrowsFaced with the world mistaken for the world,I’m not confused: it seems so sensibleTo call the loose, cyclonic pulse of leavesOn sidewalks “physics,” and not a miracle. I understand a prophet undeceives Himself when, limping by the roadkill curledBeside the curb, he thinks theodicyInadequate for even bestial pain,Or when, dispersing the loud shroud of fliesThat swaddles it, he wonders how the saneEscape their own conclusions. Sense defiesEvery compendium of mystery. And if I’m senseless, then, for holding thisWorld most enlightening when its premisesGrow thinnest, I am glad to be struck dumb.Look: fireflies punctuate the night with greenEpigrams on love, petunias keenFor the dead possum, and electrons hum Concentric hymns to probabilityWhile leaf-swirls sing in fractal harmony.Best is this line of sparrows that have shown Their utter distance from the disapprovingCaws of the crows by fleshing out a movingEllipsis leading into the unknown. Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

8/27/24 • 32:26

Soundtrack to this episodeTopics discussed in this episode include: -Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray-Portrait of the artist in a digital world-The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century-The decline and fall of poetry -Four paths to pecuniary stability-My episode on Amit Majmudar-"Patronage" by Amit Majmudar-Techno-feudalism-The linger of poetic mystique-Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia-Commissions for Occasional poetry-From philanthropy to patronage-"Brother, can you spare a dime?"Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

8/12/24 • 25:44

Soundtrack to this episode Topics discussed in this episode include:-The Beatles-Beatles documentary "Get Back" -"The Other Frost" by Randall Jarrell-"Robert Frost: or, the Spiritual Drifter as Poet" by Yvor Winters-"The Other Other Frost" by William Logan-"The Themes of Robert Frost" by Robert Penn Warren-"A History of Modern Poetry" by David Perkins-Phalaecian hendacasyllabics-Catullus I -Plato's "Symposium" Frost poems mentioned/discussed:-The Road Not Taken-Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening-Mending Wall-Fire and Ice-Nothing Gold Can Stay-For Once, Then, Something-Design-Mowing-After Apple-Picking-Birches-The Most of It-The Silken Tent-Come In-Neither Out Far Nor In Deep-To a Moth Seen in Winter-Home BurialSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

7/16/24 • 40:17

Soundtrack to this episodeFor text of poem, please see episode transcript at versecraft.buzzsprout.com.Topics discussed in this episode include: -C'est Moi, MBS's response to my episode Giving the Devil His Due-My review of Matthew's book, "Midlife," entitled The Poet Laureate of Crushed Dreams-My episode on the Pathetic Fallacy with Matthew and Alice-"Of the Pathetic Fallacy" by John Ruskin-Who're you callin "pathetic?" -Pro and Contra-Figurative language vs. the fallacy-The new edition of "All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" -I'm interviewing Tim! -Watch the reading with David, Matthew, and Ryan here! -The Winters circle-The New Formalism-The pathetic fallacy is coming from inside the house! -Supreme fictions and noble lies-God, Machine, and Man-Animism and Shinto-The Jungian anima and the feminine turn-In pursuit of AgapeSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

7/3/24 • 29:19

Soundtrack to this episodeTopics discussed in this episode include:-"The Roots of Romanticism" by Isaiah Berlin-The Jena Set and the Schlegels-"Rousseau and Romanticism" by Irving Babbitt-Harold Bloom-"Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" by Eric Voegelin-"Classic, Romantic, and Modern" by Jacques Barzun-Inferno IV and XXVI-Prometheus Bound (probably not by Aeschylus)-"Paradise Lost" by the GOAT -The spiritual paradox of Romanticism-Turns out limbo parties aren't so fun-Nostalgia for Christianity-Romantic Irony: Metatextual and Anti-Heroic-Literature as self-exorcism-Unambiguous Ambivalence of Judgement -"The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky-"Hegel's Theory of Tragedy" by A.C. Bradley-Varieties of Anti-Hero-Literary alchemy Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

6/19/24 • 26:40

Soundtrack to this episodeText of poemTopics discussed in this episode:-My sojourn in Gaul-ITER! -Atomic Fusion-The contemptible STEM/Humanities divide-Amit Majmudar! -Sleerickets Episode 144-Amphibrachic hexameter-"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friedrich Nietzsche-The Solar Cycle-Apollo, the inverse Romantic-Homer's Odyssey-The myth of Daphne-Rage or Oblivion?-Come see David, Matthew, and Ryan JUNE 13TH and Amit JULY 11TH!!Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

6/4/24 • 28:32

COME OUT TO CLEVELAND June 13th to hear David, Matthew, and Ryan read!  Soundtrack to this episode Topics discussed in this episode include: -Au revoir until June! -"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friederich Nietzsche-"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde-"Pere Goriot" by Honore de Balzac-The aesthetic parasite-"And Which of Them In Time Would Be Betrayed" by Derek Walcott-"The Georgics" by Publius Vergilius Maro-"The Metamorphoses" by Publius Ovidius Naso-The tale of Orpheus and Eurydice-"Portrait of A Lady On Fire" directed by Celine Sciamma-"Eurydice's Footnote" by A.E. Stallings-"Pulling the Chariot of the Sun" by Shane McCrae-"Eurydice On the Art of Poetry" by Shane McCrae-"The Inferno" by Dante Alighieri-"The Odyssey" by Omeros-"Eurydice" by Adrienne Su-"Axel" by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam-The Orphic imperative absorbs all  Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

5/15/24 • 26:11

Soundtrack to today's episodeTopics discussed in this episode include:-"On Portents" by Robert Graves-"The White Goddess" by Robert Graves-"Life With The Real White Goddess" by Louis Simpson-Poetry Messiah Witch Cult-The Fugitives-Misadventures in polyamory-"A Survey of Modernist Poetry" by Riding & Graves-"The Cool Web" by Robert Graves-The squishiness of children-The double-edged sword of language-"Rational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of Words" by Laura Riding-"Death As Death" by Laura Riding:  To conceive death as deathis difficulty come by easily,a blankness fallen amongimages of understanding,death like a quick cold handon the hot slow head of suicide.So is it come by easilyfor one instant.  Then again furnacesroar in the ears, then again hell revolves, and the elastic eye holds paradiseat visible length from blindness,and dazedly the body echoes‘like this, like this, like nothing else.’ Like nothing—a similarity without resemblance.  The prophetic eye, closing upon difficulty,opens upon comparison,halving the actualityas a gift too plain, for which gratitude has no language,foresight no vision.Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

4/30/24 • 26:40

The soundtrack to today's episode Topics discussed in this episode:-Norman Finkelstein and Restless Messengers -Formal Poet Voltron At Loganberry Books!! Get over here! -Three great things: Literary Matters, 32 Poems, SLEERICKETS-Ma! I'm On Sleerickets!-Pre-12th century Medieval heroic poetry -Chivalry vs. Courtly Love-Slammin the canon-Dante is a sad, strange little man -and Petrarch needs to get a life-The 16th Century Lyric in England by Yvor Winters-Name a more iconic duo (power couple??) than Phil and Fulke. -"Elegy For Philip Sidney" by Fulke Greville-Caelica C by Fulke Greville-Caelica CII by Fulke Greville -Chorus Sacerdotum by Fulke GrevilleSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

4/18/24 • 31:21

Topics discussed in this episode include: -That famous soliliquy-"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus-Inferno Canto XIII-"Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton-The Catechism of the Catholic Church-Prayopavesa-Martyrs, Berserkers, Stoics and Samurai-"The Right To Die" by Paul Laurence Dunbar-"No" by A.M. Juster-"Resume" by Dorothy ParkerSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

4/2/24 • 25:51

Poems discussed on this episode include: "Are They Shadows" by Samuel Daniel"To Heaven" by Ben Jonson"The Kraken" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson"Aspecta Medusa" by Dante Gabriel RossettiSonnet VII by George Santayana"Rock and Hawk" by Robinson Jeffers"What Are Years" by Marianne Moore"My Son, My Executioner" by Donald Hall"Drought" by Catherine Chandler (see show transcript for text)"Elegy" by John Dunn SmithSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

3/20/24 • 31:40

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 Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

3/13/24 • 30:03

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: ShiversongGiven snowThat doesn’t flinchTo throw its poundsThrough heaven inchBy inch, that sowsA billion motesOf chill intoThis ground man can’tDefend; and givenWind that won’tBegin to tellUs how it’s driven,Where it fell from,What it’s meantTo blow and whichProud limbs the cloudsWant riven sinceIt doesn’t dimlyKnow, or evenWhy the howlingWhims have pardonedUs thus far;Given such,It’s hard to watchThe black-eyed scarecrowSome fool left hereMiming careAbove the blightedGarden, thoughTonight he seemsIntent to wrackThe soil and climbThe air, to fly,To crash his flimsyCross againstThe deadpan rancorIn the vastGrim sky. Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

3/6/24 • 23:01

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 ProfundisSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

2/28/24 • 29:46

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. Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

2/21/24 • 29:42

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"Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

2/14/24 • 31:50

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...Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

2/8/24 • 33:59

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...Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

2/1/24 • 37:07

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 showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

1/24/24 • 38:24

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 showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

1/17/24 • 21:56

Mea culpa re line 8: I confusedly combined both possible readings-- this is either acephalous hexameter or first foot anapest iambic pentameter.  Topics discussed in this episode include: -Write to me about classes! -The Error by Don Paterson-Idealism, Nominalism, Transcendental critique-Plato, Plotinus, Ockham, Kant-Paterson's band, Lammas-His many books-Michael Donaghy-Blank Verse by Robert B. Shaw, and the 3 Types-Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil"-Pseudo-Dionysius and the Via Negativa-Plotinus's plenum meets Nagarjuna's vacuum (sunyata)-God as Eclipse (and my episode/poem on this idea)-Auto-martyrdom on Yggdrasil-Beholding the Nothing That Is Text of poem: Phantom VWe come from nothing and return to it. It lends us out to time, and when we liein silent contemplation of the voidthey say we feel it contemplating us. This is wrong, but who could bear the truth.We are ourselves the void in contemplation. We are its only nerve and hand and eye. There is something vast and distant and enthronedwith which you are one and continuous,staring through your mind, staring and staringlike a black sun, constant, silent, radiantwith neither love nor hate nor apathyas we have no human name for its regard. Your thought is the bright shadows that it makes as it plays across the objects of the earthor such icons of them as your mind has forged.The book in sunlight or the tree in rainbursts at its touch into a blaze of signs. But when the mind rests and the dark light stills,the tree will rise untethered to its stationbetween earth and heaven, the open bookturn runic and unreadable again,and if a word then rises to our lips we speak it on behalf of everything. Support the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

1/2/24 • 25:02

Mea culpa: Several times I refer to "Sunlight" as "Sunshine." Blame it on the LSD (which was called "Orange Sunshine"). Text of poem here Topics discussed in this episode include:  -Let me know what you think I should teach!-On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity by John Milton-The Gas Poker by Thom Gunn-The Movement-Syllabics as gateway drug-Lucy In the Sky With Demanding Forms-Thom Gunn, Renaissance man-Golding's Metamorphoses-Philosophical religions-A cursory and woefully incomplete history of Platonism-Adonais by that son-of-a-Bysshe Percy Shelley-An Essay On Man by Alexander Pope-Plato's Symposium (see the famous Diotima section)-Christmas Day 2023 was the day I learned the sun was green-Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens -A song of experience in search of deeper innocenceSupport the showBUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraftSend me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.comMy 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 AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)

12/27/23 • 32:16