Aug 12 2024 25 mins
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
-Portrait of the artist in a digital world
-The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
-The decline and fall of poetry
-Four paths to pecuniary stability
-"Patronage" by Amit Majmudar
-Techno-feudalism
-The linger of poetic mystique
-Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia
-Commissions for Occasional poetry
-From philanthropy to patronage
-"Brother, can you spare a dime?"
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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 (/ /)