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"The Sponge" by Joshua Mehigan
Text of poem here.
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Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Matthew's new book, Midlife!
-Joshua Mehigan and his books, The Optimist and Accepting the Disaster
-Josh's interview on SLEERICKETS
-American Naturalism
-Josh's poem Down In the Valley
-Sponges 101
-Parapraxis, aka "The Freudian slip"
-Venice by Herman Melville
-The gang and I talk The Pathetic Fallacy on SLEERICKETS
-Monism, Pantheism, Mysticism, oh my!
-Zen and the art of microbe filtration
-Everything is connected, man!
-Learning how to be and not to be mortal.
-The Hindu Asrama system
-Accepting our disaster
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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 (/ /)