Text of the poem here.

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode:

-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

Support the show

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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:

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 re

Support the show

VISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.

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VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.

Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.

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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 (/ /)