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-Read the poem... by pre-ordering Forester’s new collection here!  -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 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 (/ /)

Text of the poem 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 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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode: -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 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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: 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 Support the show 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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: 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 Support the show 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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: -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 Support the show 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 (/ /)

Topics mentioned in this episode: -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 Support the show 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 (/ /)

Text of poem here 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  Support the show 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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: 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 Maugh Support the show 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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode: -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 Support the show 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode Text of poem here Send me your AMA questions for Versecraft 100! 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 Support the show 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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode 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 Support the show 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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: -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 Support the show BUY 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: @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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode 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. Support the show BUY 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: @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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode 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! Support the show BUY 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: @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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode 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 Support the show BUY 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: @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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode 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 Support the show BUY 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: @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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to this episode 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! Support the show BUY 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: @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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: -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 Support the show BUY 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: @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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include: -Simple Syrup -Why poetry? -Poetry vs. Music -David vs. Versecraft -The Case Against Versecraft by Matt Wall  -"Cain" by Lord Byron -"Empedocles On Etna" by Matthew Arnold Support the show BUY 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: @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 (/ /)