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Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.© 2026 Versecraft Kunst
  • "Identity" by Elizabeth Jennings
    Aug 1 2026

    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.

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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 (/ /)

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    19 Min.
  • 10 Poems I Like Part V
    Jul 7 2026

    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 Brock

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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 (/ /)

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    37 Min.
  • Little Golden Songs: The Art of the Sonnet
    Jun 29 2026

    Read this essay at The Sonneteer!

    Sonnet types discussed:

    The Sicilian: ABAB ABAB, CDC DCD

    The Italian: ABBA ABBA, CDC DCD

    The English: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

    The French: ABAB, CDCD, EEF, GGF

    The Spenserian: ABAB, BCBC, CDCD, EE

    The Miltonic: Italian, with enjambment, delayed volta, and non-courtly/erotic content

    The Meredithian: ABBA, CDDC, EFFE, GHHG

    The Pushkin: aBaB, ccDD, eFFe, GG

    The Hilbertian: ABC ABC, DEF DEF, GG

    The Terza Rima: ABA, BCB, CDC, DED, EE

    The Hybrid: Various. Ex: ABBA ABBA, CDCD, EE

    The Caudate: Various. Usually Italian, plus cauda (tail)

    The Curtal: Various. Sestet plus “super-quatrain” (quatrain + hemistich)

    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 (/ /)

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    53 Min.
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