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Soundtrack to this episode

For text of poem, please see episode transcript at versecraft.buzzsprout.com.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-C'est Moi, MBS's response to my episode Giving the Devil His Due

-My review of Matthew's book, "Midlife," entitled The Poet Laureate of Crushed Dreams

-My episode on the Pathetic Fallacy with Matthew and Alice

-"Of the Pathetic Fallacy" by John Ruskin

-Who're you callin "pathetic?"

-Pro and Contra

-Figurative language vs. the fallacy

-The new edition of "All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing"

-I'm interviewing Tim!

-Watch the reading with David, Matthew, and Ryan here!

-The Winters circle

-The New Formalism

-The pathetic fallacy is coming from inside the house!

-Supreme fictions and noble lies

-God, Machine, and Man

-Animism and Shinto

-The Jungian anima and the feminine turn

-In pursuit of Agape

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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 (/ /)