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Buy my new chapbook here and my new book here! Read this essay on Substack!Topics discussed in this episode include:-Alfred North Whitehead and "thisness"-"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz-The Whitmanic tradition-"At A Solemn Musick" by Delmore Schwartz-"Vivaldi" by Delmore Schwartz-"The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi-Dante's Purgatorio-prosopopeia-Novalis and the Blue Flower-"Domination of Black" by Wallace Stevens-"The Task" by William Cowper-"The Dead" by James Joyce-"Ash Wednesday" by T.S. Eliot-Schopenhauer's Metaphysics-My Schopenhauer episode, Part I and Part II-My episode on the Parnassian poetsSupport the showBUY MY BOOKS HERE AND HERE.VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! Send me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says  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 (/ /)...

Read the poem and this essay on Substack! Links discussed in this episode include:-New Literary Matters is out! -My poem in LM: "Freud Dreams of Egypt"-My poems in The Deronda Review: "The Kabbalist" and "Modeh Ani" -My poem in The Sonneteer: "After Poe"-My guide to Gilgamesh in NVR: "He Who Saw the Abyss"-My review of MBS in GRR-M.D. Skeen's review of The Necklace-The ALSCW Conference-Buy The Necklace of Harmonia!-Get hype for Against Oblivion, out Oct. 11th! -John Poch, The Vassar Miller Prize, and 32 PoemsSupport the showBUY MY BOOKS HERE AND HERE.VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! Send me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says  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 (/ /)...

Read this essay and poem on Substack! Topics discussed include: -Poets as actual legislators-Alexander Solzhenitsyn-"The Great Terror" by Robert Conquest-The Movement redux-"The Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant-The epistemological turn-Hyper-Apollonianism as contrary to poetry -Darkness and the imagination-The gaucheness of lightning-Serenity in Selenity Support the showBUY MY BOOKS HERE AND HERE.VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! Send me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says  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 (/ /)...

Read this essay on Substack!Order my new chapbook here! Topics discussed in this episode include:-Frost Farm and the new generation of metricians -The Necklace of Harmonia and Against Oblivion-The musical caesura-"Uriel" by Ralph Waldo Emerson-Ouroboros, yin-yang thinking-"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" by Wallace Stevens-The transcendental imagination-Dante's ParadisoSupport the showBUY MY BOOKS HERE AND HERE.VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! Send me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says  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 (/ /)...

Read the essay here! -"L'Envoi" by Herman Melville-"Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century" by Melville-"Clarel" by Melville-"Moby-Dick" by Melville-"The Maldive Shark" by Melville-"The Confidence Man" by Melville-"Timoleon" by Melville-Gnostics, Cathars, and Bogomils-Dualisms, Persian, French, and Indian-White Symbolism: Lightning and the Whale-Ahab's inverted Zoroastrianism-cum-Gnosticism-The Ophites and Leviathan-"Gnostic Mythos in Moby-Dick" by Thomas Vargish-"Timaeus" by Plato-"Historical and Critical Dictionary" by Pierre Bayle-The Wintersian "post-symbolist" poem-Reconciling with the squaliform demiurgeSupport the showBUY MY BOOKS HERE AND HERE.VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! Send me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says  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 (/ /)...

Mea culpa: Sorry for the confusion-- of course I DID end up giving a recap of my adventures. 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.Support the showBUY MY BOOKS HERE AND HERE.VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! Send me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says  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 (/ /)...

Read this essay (and see the poems) on Substack!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 BrockSupport the showBUY MY BOOKS HERE AND HERE.VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! Send me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says  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 (/ /)...

Read this essay at The Sonneteer! Sonnet types discussed:The Sicilian: ABAB ABAB, CDC DCDThe Italian: ABBA ABBA, CDC DCDThe English: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GGThe French: ABAB, CDCD, EEF, GGFThe Spenserian: ABAB, BCBC, CDCD, EEThe Miltonic: Italian, with enjambment, delayed volta, and non-courtly/erotic contentThe Meredithian: ABBA, CDDC, EFFE, GHHGThe Pushkin: aBaB, ccDD, eFFe, GGThe Hilbertian: ABC ABC, DEF DEF, GGThe Terza Rima: ABA, BCB, CDC, DED, EEThe Hybrid: Various. Ex: ABBA ABBA, CDCD, EEThe Caudate: Various. Usually Italian, plus cauda (tail)The Curtal: Various. Sestet plus “super-quatrain” (quatrain + hemistich)Support the showBUY MY BOOKS HERE AND HERE.VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! Send me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says  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 (/ /)...

-Read this essay on Substack! -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 SteeleSupport the showBUY MY BOOKS HERE AND HERE.VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! Send me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says  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 (/ /)...

Read this essay on Substack!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"Support the showBUY MY BOOKS HERE AND HERE.VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! Send me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says  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 (/ /)...