Versecraft
Versecraft
What Poetry Is (And Isn't)
Apologies for the sirens around the thirteen minute mark. I should've stopped up my mic with wax!
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Welcome back everyone!!
-A litany of my recent international escapades
-Spoiler: Poetry is Versecraft (cue flame war)
-Problem 1: Non-metrical gatekeeping
-Problem 2: The mystical word-sorcerors want their poetry back
-Descriptive vs. Prescriptive definitions (an MBS favorite)
-Who gave me the right??
-The great "Poetry" robbery
-Problems with "Formal Verse"
-I'm not more radical now, just more honest
-Why is everyone afraid of prose?
-Aristotle's genres: Epic (or Narrative), Drama, Lyric
-The messy problem of Lyric
-Mode vs. Genre
-Mode vs. Style
-Belletrism, or Logonautics
-50 Shades of Poetry
-Achieving distinction, becoming distinguished
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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 (/ /)