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"Kermes Red" by Melissa Range
Read the text of the poem here
Topics discussed in this episode include:
The Iron Lyre: Poetry, Heavy Metal, and the New Sublime
Alice and Elijah vs. The Abyss on SLEERICKETS
"The Rhythms of English Poetry" by Derek Attridge
My Gerard Manley Hopkins episode
Speech stress vs. meter
Adventures in etymology
What was accomplished on the cross?
The Aztec cosmic blood machine
Un triolet par moi
We are worms!
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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 (/ /)