Versecraft
Episodes
"Contra Dante (Kind Of)" by Bill Coyle
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mea culpa regarding the scansion of line 29: I should've mentioned that you could also very reasonably interpret this as an acephalous iambic lin...
"Paradiso XIV, 63" by Matthew Buckley Smith
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mea culpa: I forgot to mention that the last line of the poem can also be read in the following sense: desire to LIVE and not merely to EXIST ("b...
"Epitaph" by Gwendolyn Bennett
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mea culpa: at around 6:40 I say "5 lines" when I meant to say "5 feet."Topics discussed in this episode include: -My upcoming soj...
"The Metaphysical Amorist" by J.V. Cunningham
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics discussed in this episode include: -The "Plain Style" -Epigrams-"Stoner" by John Williams -Stanzaic asymmetricity -Wack...
"Marriage As A Problem of Universals" by Dick Davis
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics discussed in this episode include: -The joy of comparing like-minded poems -The Platonic dilemma of romantic love -Heroic couplets -The Pro...
What Is Art? What Is It For? An Inquiry
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics discussed in this episode include:-My thanks for (past and future) rating and reviewing! -Art vs. Craft -The spectrum of creativity -Craft a...
"The Eclipse of Meaning" by Elijah Perseus Blumov
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics discussed in this episode include: -My life story-Poetic "throat-clearing" -Curtal sonnets -Why sonnets are the supreme lyric form...
"La Corrida" by Robert Hayden
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics discussed in this episode include:-The excellent poetry podcast Sleerickets, by MBS -The four kinds of written poetry -Toward a definition of...
"Error Pursued" by Helen Pinkerton
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics mentioned in this episode include: -My new page on the OPA website! -My delusions of TikTok stardom -The deliciously old school quality of P...
"Hap" By Thomas Hardy
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics mentioned in this episode: -The Ohio Poetry Association-Milton: Anapests or nah?-Revisions of elisions -Bach deserves some rubato now and t...
"Country Burial" by Janet Lewis
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics discussed in this episode include: -A sheepish apology -The excellence of Eratosphere -Rhythm vs. Meter, and respective variations -Metrica...
"The Course of a Particular" by Wallace Stevens
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Note: I apologize for the shuffling of papers in the audio. Clearly I need a stapler. Mea culpa: "In a dark time" is a pyrrhic-spondee moti...
"Organic Bloom" by Stanley Kunitz
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Subjects touched on in this episode include: -Mid-century poet syndrome -Rhythmic vs. metrical variation -The poem as caesura salad -The Mind-Body...
"Church Monuments" by George Herbert
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Subjects discussed in this episode include: -Aspects of devotional and Metaphysical poetry-Memento Mori and its more fun twin, Carpe Diem -Tell th...
"In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mea culpa: The first line ("In a dark time, the eye begins to see) actually scans as: pyrrhic, spondee, iamb, iamb, iamb. Topics discussed in th...
"A Song For Rising" by Edgar Bowers
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"A Song For Rising" by Edgar Bowers Published September 19th, 2022 Some of the topics covered in this episode include: -What verse is -W...