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Text of poem

Topics discussed include:

-Plato's "Ion"

-The Muses and Schizophrenia

-Poets must be weirdos

-The normies are the willing slaves of the mad

-Lewis's trilemma

-The American Confessionals and the French Decadents

-The Wild 18th century

-Go read William Cowper's "The Task!"

-Samuel Johnson, Richard Savage, William Collins, Christopher Smart, William Blake, Friederich Holderlin, The Marquis de Sade

-Jubilate Agno, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Thomson's The Seasons, Tristram Shandy

-The man who thought he was Byron

-"I Am" by John Clare

-Vers libre vs. verse libere

-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

-The Masque of the Red Death

-Et in Arcadia Ego

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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 (/ /)

Read this episode (and the poem) on Substack!

Topics discussed include:

-Going to Oaxaca!

-"Poetry and Music" and "Rhyme's Reason" by John Hollander

-My Nemerov episode

-My Donaghy episode

-Jacques Lacan and the "mirror phase"

-The nightmare of the self vs. the nightmare of the unconscious

-The survival of Romanticism

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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 (/ /)

Read this essay on Substack!

Read the poems: "The Early Purges" and "Limbo."

Topics mentioned:

-Poetry careerism in the 21st century

-"The Iron Lyre"

-The perennial appeal of the Gentleman Farmer Poet

-Heaney's bog poems

-The value of exposure to death

-Rural vs. Urban morality

-"The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" by Robert Frost

-Piscine Christianity

-"At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop

-My Yucatan travelogue

-My most recent Sleerickets appearance

Support the show

VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.

BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.

VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK 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: @versecraft
Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com

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 (/ /)