Read this essay on Substack!

-Travel details mentioned: the Haar, Alfred Janniot, the Musee Branly, the museums in Nancy, Spinoza's homes

-Friends mentioned: Cameron Clark, David Klug, Niall Campbell, Gerry Cambridge, Victoria Moul

-The Movement and the New Lines anthology

-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

-Thomistic aesthetics

-The constructive, authorial nature of identity

-Heideggerian "thingness"

-Cartographers in the foreign lands of one another, themselves foreign lands.

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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 (/ /)

Poems discussed:

"The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the Desert" by Herman Melville (my Melville essay)

"Lucifer in Starlight" by George Meredith

"Cold-Blooded Creatures" by Elinor Wylie

"The Animals" by Edwin Muir

"Sunt Leones" by Stevie Smith (Fayne's essay)

"Beyond the Demonic Element" by Harvey Shapiro

"Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought" by X.J. Kennedy

"Halloween" by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (see also SLEERICKETS #2)

"The Beautiful Animal" by Geoffrey Brock

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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 (/ /)

Sonnet types discussed:

The Sicilian: ABAB ABAB, CDC DCD

The Italian: ABBA ABBA, CDC DCD

The English: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

The French: ABAB, CDCD, EEF, GGF

The Spenserian: ABAB, BCBC, CDCD, EE

The Miltonic: Italian, with enjambment, delayed volta, and non-courtly/erotic content

The Meredithian: ABBA, CDDC, EFFE, GHHG

The Pushkin: aBaB, ccDD, eFFe, GG

The Hilbertian: ABC ABC, DEF DEF, GG

The Terza Rima: ABA, BCB, CDC, DED, EE

The Hybrid: Various. Ex: ABBA ABBA, CDCD, EE

The Caudate: Various. Usually Italian, plus cauda (tail)

The Curtal: Various. Sestet plus “super-quatrain” (quatrain + hemistich)

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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 (/ /)

-What is meter?

-10 Reasons to write in meter

-Kinds of meter (Accentual, Syllabic, Parellelist, Quantitative, Accentual-Syllabic)

-Kinds of feet (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Amphibrach, Dactyl)

-“Junk” by Richard Wilbur

-“Considering the Snail” by Thom Gunn

-KJV Psalm 23

-Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare

-“The Tyger” by William Blake

-“The Destruction of Sennacherib” by Lord Byron

-“O Where Are You Going?” by W.H. Auden

-Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman

-Speech stress vs. Relative stress (accent)

-The importance of “framing” in scansion

-Rhythmic modulation

-Common substitutions (feminine endings, reversed feet, acephalous lines)

-“All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing” by Timothy Steele

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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:

-Disco Demolition Night

-Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death" 

-See Matthew's great episode on the above

-Alice's essay, "On Fear"

-My essay, "The Iron Lyre"

-The Sleerickets episode "This Was Poetry"

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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 (/ /)

-If there is a “West,” all Semites and Aryans are part of it

-Arab Classicism and the House of Wisdom

-Al Ma’arri

-Afzaladdin

-Moses Ibn Ezra

-Sehnsucht

-Ibn Iyad

-Manjik

-Dick Davis

-Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas”

-Proto-Imagism

-My long road to appreciating haiku

-Zen in the Art of Archery

-Matsuo Basho

-Ethan McGuire

-Kireji, Kigo, Jisei

-Minamoto no Shitago

-Howard Nemerov

-Derek Walcott

-Anne Stevenson

-Mary Jo Salter

-Motherhood and the feminine mystique

-John Frederick Nims

-Nicky Beer

-Sponsor an episode!!

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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 include:

The Monumentalist Manifesto

The Iron Lyre

Bright Soft Things (Crashaw Essay)

The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse trans. Christopher Childers

Asclepiades 6

Zonas 9

Argentarius 26

Martial 5.73, 1.73, 3.65

"Prayer" by George Herbert

"Cold Turkey" by Joshua Mehigan

"Upon the Body of Our Blessed Lord, Naked and Bloody" by Richard Crashaw

"To Our Lord, Upon the Water Made Wine," by Richard Crashaw

"God is my Final End" by Angelus Silesius

"The Rosebud Has No Why" by Angelus Silesius

"Why Do I Exist?" by Daniel Brown

"On My First Son" by Ben Jonson

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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 the poem here.

Mea culpa: Yes, in the heat of the moment, I mispronounced mise en scene. A la guillotine! 

Topics discussed include:

-Some po-biz kvetching

-Morri Creech! 

-The telos of Versecraft

-The "ghost" of pentameter

-The Stevensian cosmovision and the metaphysics of metaphor

-The axis mundi

-Nicholas of Cusa and coincidentia oppositorum

-The Moirai

-Contronyms

-"An Ordinary Childhood" by Morri Creech

-Selve oscura dolce

-I.A. Richards and tenor & vehicle

-"Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth

-"Poem Without Metaphors" by Matthew Buckley Smith

-The Blumovian Review

-My chapbook, "The Necklace of Harmonia"

-My book, "Against Oblivion"

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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

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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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 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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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 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

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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:

R.S. Thomas's poems:

-Mediations

-Kneeling

-Via Negativa

-The Absence

-Revision

-Ernest Hilbert

-Alexander Fayne's essay on R.S. Thomas

-Pascal's "Night of Fire"

-Apophatic theology 

-John Scotus Erigena, Philo, Pseudo-Dionysius, Weil, etc. 

-Keats's "Ode On A Grecian Urn"

-Milton's "On His Blindness" 

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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:

-The Cambridge Three: Dick Davis, Robert Wells, Clive Wilmer

-My Interview with Dick Davis

-The Stanford Poets: Thom Gunn, Edgar Bowers, Yvor Winters, etc.

-Virgil's Georgics

-The Idylls of Theocritus

-Wells poems discussed: "A Caution," "Deus Loci," "The Unnamed Pool," "The Bathing Place," "The Last of Summer."

-Episodes on the pathetic fallacy here and here

-Apophasis

-"Le Cimetiere Marin" by Paul Valery

-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters

-Sensory deprivation tanks

-Mysticism vs. 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:

-Transcending the smallness of one's time

-The Flaming Terrapin

-The Voorslag Affair

-Campbell against the world, i.e. punching Steve Spender in the face

-Ambivalent stanzas

-The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot

-"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens

-"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

-"The Whiteness of the Whale" by Herman Melville

-A Nietzschean response to apocalypse

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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 (/ /)

Poems discussed in this episode:

"Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee" by Emily Bronte

"Cargoes" by John Masefield

"From Stone to Steel" by E.J. Pratt

"The Hill" by Rupert Brooke

"When the Ecstatic Body Grips" by E.R. Dodds

"For My Daughter" by Weldon Kees

"Poetry and Religion" by Les Murray

"Soul" by Alan Shapiro

"Where the River Meets the Sound" by Suzanne Doyle

"Clear Water" by Catherine Tufariello

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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 (/ /)

-Or here, on Substack! 

-The Versecraft Substack

-My annus mirabilis

-Forester McClatchey! 

-Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

-Renovating the sonnet-house

-Mycorrhizal intelligence

-Is the pathos fallacious? 

-A thinking cheese for the thinking man

-The ents at the entmoot

-My recent episode on Sleerickets with Alice

-Cosmic double-consciousness

-Dark circles of eternity and oblivion

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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 the transcript of this episode here!

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My new website!

-My Substack

-The meaning and history of New Formalism

-“Can Poetry Matter?” by Dana Gioia

-The Big Read and Poetry Out Loud

-“The Catholic Writer Today” by Dana Gioia

-“Poetry as Enchantment” by Dana Gioia

-Boris Dralyuk on Noir Poetry

-The Noir hero

-Christopher Marlowe and Charles Marlow

-The Santa Ana winds

-“Red Wind” by Raymond Chandler

-“The Lady in the Lake” by Raymond Chandler

-A net of coins

-Plato FM Radio 

-Of beauty and youth

-Of coyotes, dogs, and men

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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 show on substack! 

-My new website!!

-My conversation with David and Matthew on Age of Muses

-My new post at Literary Matters

-My French translation episode on Heredia

-My Spanish translation episode on Lope

-Metaphrase and paraphrase

-Germany's view of Goethe

-Magister Christopher Childers

-From Sturm und Drang to Spit on that Thang (sorry)

-Weimar (semi)Classicism

-How to write a sex poem

-Accentual-syllabic vs. Quantitative meter

-The Education of Elijah Blumov by one Christopher Childers

-The lowdown on elegiac couplets, feat. Coleridge

-Goethe's technique, my technique

-The classical, semi-salvific quality of good sex

-My own embroiderings of the text

-Various triumvirates

-To All the Poets Who Loved Before

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The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight 

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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 the polished transcript of this episode on Substack! 

My lecture on The Grand Style in English

My poem, "Spelunker," in New Verse Review

The 2025 ALSCW Conference

Cameron’s substack

Ethan’s substack

Poetry’s psychological effect and moral charge

The burden of genius

Poetry vs. Philosophy

Maimonides and Augustine

The decadence of the academy

"Poetry as Enchantment" by Dana Gioia

The function of meter and rhyme

The heresy of paraphrase

Bouts-rime and pleonasm

Romanticism redux

Leo Strauss

The spiritual je ne sais quoi of tragedy

The horror film “Martyrs”

“Norma” by Vincenzo Bellini

“Tristan und Isolde” by Richard Wagner

Stoic vs. Christian resignation

Bourgeois tragedy and the existential hero

“Hedda Gabler” by Ibsen

“Brand” by Ibsen

“Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller

“The Death of Tragedy” by George Steiner

“The Clouds” by Aristophanes

Tragedy vs. Comedy and the Absurd

“It’s A Wonderful Life” by Frank Capra

“Alcestis” by Euripides

History as Self-consciousness

The hazards of Protestantism

The history of the night before

“Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust

Monuments as time capsules

The Egyptian legacy

The Book of Job

Friendship with the dead

The musical chain of being

Music as the Cosmic Will

Discord and reconciliation

You are the string that is plucked

Liebestod

The harmonic cathedral of God-consciousness

Brad Leithauser on SLEERICKETS

The unique pleasures of limitation

A Nietzschean epilogue

Nietzsche vs. the Stoics

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets 
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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 the polished transcript of this episode here! 

Cameron’s substack

Ethan’s substack

"The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer

Why you Kant do metaphysics anymore

Matter, Phenomena, Representation, Maya vs.

Form, Noumena, Will, Nirvana

Terrains of flesh

French vs. English gardens

From Schopenhauer to Freud

Perception vs Reflection

Art vs. Philosophy

Idea vs. Conception

The Symbolist Movement

Classical Architecture supremacy?

My Case for Meter and Rhyme episodes (1 and 2)

Shane McCrae

We want stallions, not blobs! 

Classical vs. Gothic

Art Deco and Brutalism

Sculpture vs. Painting

Zeuxis

David Lynch, Symboliste

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets 
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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 (/ /)

-My recent class at the Frost Farm Conference

-My trip to Europe

-Come to the ALSCW Conference!

-Part I and Part II of my essay on French poetry in Marginalia Review of Books

-New poems and translations of mine in the latest issue of Literary Matters

-My essays The Iron Lyre and The Monumentalist Manifesto

-The most recent SLEERICKETS

-The Romantic within the Classicist

-Philosophy within poetry

-The mystique of Santayana

-"The Morning Song of Senlin" by Conrad Aiken

-"The Clerk's Journal" and "The House of Dust" by Conrad Aiken

-"Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry

-"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt

-The Colossi of Memnon

-Metrical trickery and incorporating Whitman into iambs.

-Stevensian Idealism and the Supreme Fiction

-Neoplatonism and Ukiyo

-From Solipsism to Pantheism

-From Berkeley to Kant

-The meaning of "God's Image"

-Dialectical Monism, the Dyad, and the Tao

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets 
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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 use of the term “poetry” and the death of the genuine article

-Building metrical literacy

-My essay “The Iron Lyre”

-Modern small-souledness

-My essay “The Poisoned Well: Melville and Gnosticism”

-My essay “The Monumentalist Manifesto”

-“Science, Politics, and Gnosticism” by Eric Voegelin

-“The Whiteness of the Whale” in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”

-“The Gnostic Gospels” ed. Elaine Pagels 

-“Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century” by Melville

-“The Maldive Shark” by Melville

-My episode “Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero” 

-“The Brothers Karamazov” by Dostoevsky

-My episode “What is Art? What Is It For?” 

-“J.V. Cunningham's Counter-Revolution” by James Matthew Wilson

-“Poetry and Religion” by Les Murray

-Myth as the missing link between philosophy, religion, and poetry

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets 
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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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode 

Topics discussed in this episode: 

-The University of St. Thomas, Houston 

-"The Flaming Heart" by Mario Praz

-Giambattista Marino

-Metaphysical vs. Baroque

-The poetry of rapture

-The Greek Anthology

-Laudianism 

-Crashaw's Teresa poems

-Mixed meter and phantom beats

-"Venus and Adonis" by Billy Shakes

-The saintly grief in your wedding ring

-Aurora, not Selene! 

-"The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" by Sir Philip Sidney

-"On a Drop of Dew" by Andrew Marvell

-The nurturing sublime

-A humanized heaven in human eyes 

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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 MFA Program at the University of St. Thomas

-My episode on Ryan’s poem “Disobedience”

-"How to Think Like a Poet" by Ryan Wilson

-Wiseblood Books

-New editions of Dryden and Pope soon come!

-“The Catholic Writer Today” by Dana Gioia

-David Rothman

-New Verse Review’s St. Thomas issue

-“A Season in Hell” by Arthur Rimbaud

-“Pure and Impure Poetry” by Robert Penn Warren

-The Fugitives, Agrarians, and New Critics

-“The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot

-“Dante” by T.S. Eliot

-“The World’s Body” by John Crowe Ransom

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

-“From Ritual to Romance” by Jessie Weston

-“Proteus Bound” by Ryan Wilson

-“El Desdichado” by Gerard de Nerval

-“An Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke

-Joyce’s “Ulysses” and the mythic method

-Aestheticism and Theophile Gautier

-Negative Capability

-Blake, Picasso, and derangement

-Four Roses whiskey (sponsor me!)

-“Rob Roy,” by Sir Walter Scott

-“For the Highway Medians” by Matthew Buckley Smith

-“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick

-A hypostatic, moral exegesis of the Odyssey

-The Aeneid as tragedy

-“Imitations” by Robert Lowell

-Plutarch’s “Lives”

-“Annus Mirabilis” by John Dryden

-Dryden vs. Pope

-Pope’s “Ode On Solitude” and “Essay On Man”

-“Heorot” by Ryan Wilson

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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 (/ /)

Wiseblood Books

The University of St. Thomas MFA Program

My episode on James Matthew Wilson

"The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking" by James Matthew Wilson

"The Wayward Thomist" by James Matthew Wilson

The Complete Essays of J.V. Cunningham

Jacques Maritain

"Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky

"La Vita Nuova" by Dante

Matthew 16

"In Ghostlight" by Ryan Wilson

"The River of the Immaculate Conception" by James Matthew Wilson

"Mass of the Americas" by Frank La Rocca

"The Bridge" by Hart Crane

"The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot

“Tradition and the Individual Talent” by T.S. Eliot

“Four Quartets” by T.S. Eliot

“The Illusion of Reaction” by Yvor Winters

“All the Fun’s In How You Say a Thing” by Timothy Steele

“Missing Measures” by Timothy Steele

F.T. Prince

“Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century” by Herman Melville

My episode on Helen Pinkerton

“Love in the Western World” by Denis de Rougemont

“Agape and Eros” by Anders Nygren

“The Marriage” by Yvor Winters 

“Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor

“Wiped Out” by James Matthew Wilson

“The Moon and Sixpence” by W. Somerset Maugham

“Fides et Ratio” by John Paul II 

“Confessions” by Augustine

“Forms of Discovery” by Yvor Winters

"The Death of Cicero" by James Matthew Wilson

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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 (/ /)

Matthew Buckley Smith over at SLEERICKETS

Alice Allan over at Poetry Says and In Future Posts

Ethan McGuire over at The Flummoxed

Zina Gomez Liss over at The Beauty of Things

Cameron Clark over at Minor Tiresias

Rationalist, Socialist, Humanist, Bicameral Demo-Oligarchic Utopia?

Ironkraft and Cheesecraft

An incomplete list of people I envy: Kendrick Lamar, Shane McCrae, James Matthew Wilson, Chris Childers, Dick Davis, Amit Majmudar, Matthew Buckley Smith, Bill Coyle, Don Paterson, etc. etc.

An incomplete list of people who inspire me: Yvor Winters, Irving Babbitt, Matthew Arnold, William Shakespeare, John Milton, the Attic Tragedians, E.A. Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Bowers, Richard Wilbur, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Vyasa, Simone Weil, William Morris.

The Book of Job

Isaiah 45:7

Alitu and Buzzsprout

Kol Nidre

My episode with Zina and David on Fireside Chat

Harold Bloom

The Archimedean point

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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 Eagles" by Jones Very

"The Oracles" by A.E. Housman

"An Equation" by Hyam Plutzik

"Plato and the Serpent" by Catherine Davis

"Crow's Theology" by Ted Hughes

"Changeling" by Rhina Espaillat

"Hardy" by Robert Mezey

"The Master of Metaphor" by Carl Dennis

"Lust" by J.D. McClatchy

"An Incident in the Sublime" by Wyatt Prunty

Poems/Prose Lyrics mentioned:

"Jones Very in the Parlor" by Brian Brodeur

"The Proverbs of Hell" by William Blake

"Antarctica" by Elijah Perseus Blumov

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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 (/ /)

-Email me your questions!! 

-Cameron's substack, "Minor Tiresias"

-My poem, "At Woodlawn" in Merion West

-My poem, "Aztec Support" in Light

-My episode on Learning the Secrets of English Verse

-"Missing Measures" and "All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" by Timothy Steele

-De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum

-"Notes On Metre" by Otto Jespersen

-The Trager-Smith school of linguistics

-The Halle-Keyser theory of prosody

-Paul Kiparsky

-Seymour Chapman

-"The Rhythms of English Poetry" by Derek Attridge

-"The Origin of Writing" by Roy Harris

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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

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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Greatest Generation poets

-"Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry" by Howard Nemerov

-"De Anima" by Aristotle

-On loose iambics

-The ghost of Sapphics

-A transexual volta

-Life engenders the great romance of death

-"Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

-The nature of empathy and tragedy

-Orpheus and Eurydice and my Shane McCrae Episode

-Cupid like you've never seen him before

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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:

Bird Watcher

It returns to the same nest. The watcher lies

beneath spring brushwood to await its coming–

at watch so long he dreams himself becoming

less than himself and more, the landscape’s eyes. 

Though far beyond his eyes, beyond the range

of field-glasses, he knows it breaks no bonds: 

its instinct to his knowledge corresponds,

riding the current of the season’s change. 

What is there in a small bird’s blood that learns

to plot its course by sun and stars, being drawn

yearly toward a lost, remembered dawn? 

The watcher broods on this. The bird returns.

And all its colours flash where he attends–

a deep blue mantling rust and white. It sings

caged in his retina; then on curving wings

veers off to vanish where the human ends. 

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My episode with Zina and David on Fireside Chat

-My essay, The Iron Lyre

-My essay, The Monumentalist Manifesto

-Subscribe to the Versecraft substack! 

-Also subscribe to Zina, David, Matthew, Ethan, Alice, Steve, and Chris's substacks!

-My interview with Dick Davis

-John Ruskin and William Morris

-The Books of Enoch

-"To A Waterfowl" by William Cullen Bryant

-"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens

-A Poeta Ad Avem

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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 (/ /)

-Go buy Learning the Secrets of English Verse!

-The Monumentalist Manifesto

-My episode, The Idea Of A Poetry Conservatory

-Poetry as skill

-The Fitzgerald system of scansion

-Parallelism, Syllabics, Loose Iambics, Stress-counting, rhyme-driving, sprung rhythm, oh my!

-"All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" by Timothy Steele

-Sonnets don't cure polio, but they're pretty great.

-Rhyme Royal, Ottava Rima, Spenserians, Onegin, oh my!

-L'dor Vador

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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

Topics discussed include:

-Your host has an identity crisis

-RIP POETRY SAYS!

-Listen to Alice on Milton and with me.

-Moira Egan!

-My Pindar essay

-My Melville essay

-The Iron Lyre!

-Matthew, Alice, and I argue about The Iron Lyre

-THE ERN MALLEY HOAX

-The New York School and the Generation of '68

-Read the entire text of The Darkening Ecliptic here.

-A Primer of English Versification

-Dickinson and Blake

-The loneliness of love

-The mysticism of lust

-Embracing the eternal vibration, man.

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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 (/ /)

Link to translations

Topics discussed:

-Alice tackles Milton on Poetry Says

-Check out my Substack here! 

-My episode on Ryan Wilson

-My episode on Geoffrey Hill

-The long and short of a long fellow

-Longfellow's Dante

-The Monster of Literature

-Romance languages and hendecasyllabics

-Faithful to which fidelity?

-Translational hijinks ensue

-Mosaic rhymes!

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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 (/ /)

Note: My use of the phrase "men without chests" and Matthew's were completely coincidental! 

Text of poem:

Lachrimae Antiquae Novae

Crucified Lord, so naked to the world,

you live unseen within that nakedness,

consigned by proxy to the judas-kiss

of our devotion, bowed beneath the gold,

with re-enactments, penances foretold:

scentings of love across a wilderness

of retrospection, wild and objectless

longings incarnate in the carnal child.

Beautiful for themselves the icons fade;

the lions and the hermits disappear.

Triumphalism feasts on empty dread,

fulfilling triumphs of the festal year.

We find you wounded by the token spear.

Dominion is swallowed with your blood.

Topics discussed:

Subscribe to Versecraft on Substack!

The SLEERICKETS Geoffrey Hill episode

-Poetic accessibility, pro and contra

-John Dowland's "Lachrimae"

-My episode on Eliot's East Coker IV

-Choriambs??

-Scansion vs. delivery

-Hill's vorticism

-John Henry Newman's "illative sense" 

-The Wordsworthian cult of the child

-Plato's "Meno" dialogue

-Childhood neuroplasticity

-Psychedelic rewiring of the brain (see Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind")

-The Anglican tension

-"The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis

-Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"

-Old tears renewed

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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:

Nor strange it is, to us who walk in bonds

Of flesh and time, if virtue's self awhile

Gleam dull like sunless ice; whilst graceful guile—

Blood-flecked like hematite or diamonds

With a red inward spark—to reconcile

Beauty and evil seems and corresponds

So well with good that the mind joys to have

Full wider jet and scope nor swings and sleeps

Forever in one cradle wearily:

Like those vast weeds that off d'Acunha's isle

Wash with the surf and flap their mighty fronds

Mournfully to the dipping of the wave,

Yet cannot be disrupted from their deeps

By the whole heave and settle of the sea.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-That time Italy almost got involved in the Civil War

-Transcendentalism (or not)

-Hawthorne continues to demonstrate his good taste

-Yvor Winters? Witter Bynner? Who names these people? 

-Previous feature N. Scott Momaday

-Nonce sonnets!

-Antinomian ruminations

-Virtue vs. Goodness

-The cradle and the weed

-Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"

-Pesky dualities

-Surfing the Tao

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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 the text of the poem here

Topics discussed in this episode include:

The Iron Lyre: Poetry, Heavy Metal, and the New Sublime

Alice and Elijah vs. The Abyss on SLEERICKETS

Melissa Range!

Aaron Baker!

David Southward!

"The Rhythms of English Poetry" by Derek Attridge

My John Donne episode

My George Herbert episode

My Gerard Manley Hopkins episode

My Mark Jarman episode

Speech stress vs. meter

Adventures in etymology

What was accomplished on the cross?

The Aztec cosmic blood machine

Un triolet par moi

We are worms!

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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 (/ /)

-Jewelcraft, Housecraft, Guitarcraft

-The utilities of form

-David Gilmour

-The mysticism of scientific discovery

-Technology: What is it good for?

-Cosmic double-consciousness

-Does a cosmic perspective lead to enlightenment or nihilism?

-The functional aesthetics of Nature

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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 (/ /)

-Simple Syrup

-Why poetry?

-Poetry vs. Music

-David vs. Versecraft

-My "What Is Art?" episode

-The Case For Meter and Rhyme Part I

-The Case For Meter and Rhyme Part II

-The Case Against Versecraft by Matt Wall 

-"Cain" by Lord Byron

-"Empedocles On Etna" by Matthew Arnold

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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

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-New Critical Rococo

-The Changing Light at Sandover

-The Ingram Merrill Foundation

-Shape poems

-My George Herbert episode

-"Pindarick Odes"

-"Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth

-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

-"Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt

-What do Christmas trees and dying men have in common? 

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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 original 10 Poems I Like

"New Advances in Quitting Poetry" on SLEERICKETS

"This is not Exactly What I Mean" on the SLEERICKETS Secret Show
My 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 White

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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:

-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??

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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:

-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 look

at someone as they spoke though I could see

nothing: it's polite they said & I was, look

I'm staring at the nothing of you, see?

My Nothing reader, pelted in your silence:

silent in History I drilled my lack

of stare into the history-shaped silence

of the confidential blackboard's black.

The teacher, standing slightly to its right

scrawled 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 board

of words, how has your face become hers? mute

light 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 dome

of earth. O Teacher to you I was absence,

you who'd only bring yourself to speak óf me

asking always Does hé need help? in a voice

hushed & mailed by its pity, pitywords

cringing between your jaws. I knew that voice

as my inheritance: these blind mouths full of words.

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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 (/ /)

‘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 held

to 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 return

like 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 Spheres

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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 (/ /)

Link to poems!

Read the Classical Outlook poetry issue here!

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Topics 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!

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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 (/ /)

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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:

-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 humanity

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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 (/ /)

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

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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:

-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 Sparrows

Faced with the world mistaken for the world,

I’m not confused: it seems so sensible

To call the loose, cyclonic pulse of leaves

On sidewalks “physics,” and not a miracle. 

I understand a prophet undeceives 

Himself when, limping by the roadkill curled

Beside the curb, he thinks theodicy

Inadequate for even bestial pain,

Or when, dispersing the loud shroud of flies

That swaddles it, he wonders how the sane

Escape their own conclusions. Sense defies

Every compendium of mystery. 

And if I’m senseless, then, for holding this

World most enlightening when its premises

Grow thinnest, I am glad to be struck dumb.

Look: fireflies punctuate the night with green

Epigrams on love, petunias keen

For the dead possum, and electrons hum 

Concentric hymns to probability

While leaf-swirls sing in fractal harmony.

Best is this line of sparrows that have shown 

Their utter distance from the disapproving

Caws of the crows by fleshing out a moving

Ellipsis leading into the unknown. 

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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:

-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?"

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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 (/ /)

Support the show

VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.

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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 (/ /)

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 Agape

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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:

-"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

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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

Topics 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!!

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