-Read this essay on Substack!

-What is meter?

-10 Reasons to write in meter

-Kinds of meter (Accentual, Syllabic, Parellelist, Quantitative, Accentual-Syllabic)

-Kinds of feet (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Amphibrach, Dactyl)

-“Junk” by Richard Wilbur

-“Considering the Snail” by Thom Gunn

-KJV Psalm 23

-Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare

-“The Tyger” by William Blake

-“The Destruction of Sennacherib” by Lord Byron

-“O Where Are You Going?” by W.H. Auden

-Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman

-Speech stress vs. Relative stress (accent)

-The importance of “framing” in scansion

-Rhythmic modulation

-Common substitutions (feminine endings, reversed feet, acephalous lines)

-“All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing” by Timothy Steele

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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

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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!

Topics discussed:

-Disco Demolition Night

-Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death"

-See Matthew's great episode on the above

-Alice's essay, "On Fear"

-My essay, "The Iron Lyre"

-The Sleerickets episode "This Was 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 (/ /)

-Read the poems on my Substack!

-If there is a “West,” all Semites and Aryans are part of it

-Arab Classicism and the House of Wisdom

-Al Ma’arri

-Afzaladdin

-Moses Ibn Ezra

-Sehnsucht

-Ibn Iyad

-Manjik

-Dick Davis

-Samuel Johnson’s “Rasselas”

-Proto-Imagism

-My long road to appreciating haiku

-Zen in the Art of Archery

-Matsuo Basho

-Ethan McGuire

-Kireji, Kigo, Jisei

-Minamoto no Shitago

-Howard Nemerov

-Derek Walcott

-Anne Stevenson

-Mary Jo Salter

-Motherhood and the feminine mystique

-John Frederick Nims

-Nicky Beer

-Sponsor an episode!!

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 (/ /)