Als Zarathustra dreissig Jahr alt war, verliess er seine Heimat und den See seiner Heimat und ging in das Gebirge. Hier genoss er seines Geistes und seiner Einsamkeit und wurde dessen zehn Jahr nicht müde. Endlich aber verwandelte sich sein Her...

Mea culpa: "The Neural Lyre" was published in 1983, not 1994. Don't know why I said that! Read today's poem hereTopics discussed in this episod...

Mea culpa: Apologies for my faint audio in the beginning! Soundtrack to this episode S...

Soundtrack to this episode (it's Stephen Kampa!)Topics discussed in this episode include:-Go read New Verse Review...

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Soundtrack to this episode Topics discussed in this episode include:-The Beatles-Beatles documentary "Get Back" -"The Other Frost" by Randall Jarrell

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Soundtrack to this episodeTopics discussed in this episode include:-"The Roots of Romanticism" by Isaiah Berlin-The Jena Set and the Sc...

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COME OUT TO CLEVELAND June 13th to hear David, Matthew, and Ryan read!  Soundtrack to this...

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The soundtrack to today's episode Topics discussed in this episode:-Norman Fin...

Topics discussed in this episode include: -That famous soliliquy-"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus-Inferno Canto XIII-"Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton-The Catechism of the Catholic Church...

Poems discussed on this episode include: "Are They Shadows" by Samuel Daniel

Mea culpa: Sorry about the little skip in the concluding reading-- don't know why that happened. Text of the poem here. Topics discussed in this e...

Topics discussed in this episode include:-RIP N. Scott Momaday-Gather ye old buds while ye may-32 Poems-David's new collection,

Text of poem here (Note: this is an older version, and some lines have changed).  Topics discussed in this episode include:  -My Ryan Wil...

Text of poem here. Topics discussed in this episode include: -Literary Matters-

Topics discussed in this episode include: -"A Retrospect" and "A Few Don'ts By An Imagiste" by Ezra Pound-A ruinous misundersta...

Mea culpa: Yes, I know "Sailing to Byzantium" was written like 20 years after "Conversion." By the time I realized my anachronism, it was too late. Something something Borges retroactive influence... Topics discussed in this ep...

Topics discussed in this episode include: -What is Modernism?-Various dichotomies-The French origins of Modernism-Charles Baudelaire and the Decadent movement-Stephane Mallarme and Symbolism/Impres...

Topics discussed in this episode include:-Order George David Clark's new book, Newly Not Eternal here!-Order Joh...

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Mea culpa re line 8: I confusedly combined both possible readings-- this is either acephalous hexameter or first foot anapest iambic pentameter.  Topics discussed in this episode include: -Write to me about ...

Mea culpa: Several times I refer to "Sunlight" as "Sunshine." Blame it on the LSD (which was called "Orange Sunshine"). Text of poem here...