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

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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

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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 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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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

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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 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

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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

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

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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 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

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 (/ /)