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"Athena" by Amy Clampitt
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Topics discussed in this episode include:
-No Versecraft next week! :(
-On late-bloomers in poetry
-What Krishna meant
-The life-changing power of the unicorn tapestries
-The Amy Clampitt Residency Program and Virginia Konchan
-The "Tails To Heads" Maneuver.
-"The Eumenides" by Aeschylus
-We're gonna need to see some Id
-Pathos, Bathos, and whoever the other musketeers are...
-Alicia Stallings' wonderful essay on the Parthenon, "Frieze Frame"
-I just really wanted an excuse to say "apotropaic"
-Every culture on earth seems to have beef with snakes
-The cultural appropriation of Chaos
-You Kant always get what you want
-The deep logic of tragedy
-We are ourselves both god and monster.
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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 (/ /)