Versecraft
Versecraft
The Ern Malley Hoax! (and "Monologue," by James McAuley)
Topics discussed include:
-Your host has an identity crisis
-RIP POETRY SAYS!
-Listen to Alice on Milton and with me.
-Matthew, Alice, and I argue about The Iron Lyre
-THE ERN MALLEY HOAX
-The New York School and the Generation of '68
-Read the entire text of The Darkening Ecliptic here.
-A Primer of English Versification
-Dickinson and Blake
-The loneliness of love
-The mysticism of lust
-Embracing the eternal vibration, man.
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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 (/ /)