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 Poems

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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 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 show

VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.

BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.

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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 (/ /)

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 Paradiso

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 (/ /)