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"The Heirloom" by Michael Donaghy
Text of poem here.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Midlife by Matthew Buckley Smith
-The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse by Christopher Childers
-Khosrow and Shirin by Dick Davis
-In Ghostlight by Ryan Wilson
-A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By The Eye by Penelope Pelizzon
-The Nature of Things Fragile by Peter Vertacnik
-My poem Tlaloc on E-Verse Radio
-SLEERICKETS and Versecraft do tragedy, Part I and Part II
-Thank you for your sharp ears, Dan Brown!
-The Metaphysical vogue
-Starting with the man in the mirror
-Letting the sunshine in
-The (grindcore noises) DUMPSTER OF DEATH
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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 (/ /)