Versecraft

Elijah Perseus Blumov
Versecraft

Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.

  1. JUN 24

    Footnotes to Job: The Versecraft 100th ep AMA!

    Topics discussed in this episode include: Matthew Buckley Smith over at SLEERICKETS Alice Allan over at Poetry Says and In Future Posts Ethan McGuire over at The Flummoxed Zina Gomez Liss over at The Beauty of Things Cameron Clark over at Minor Tiresias Rationalist, Socialist, Humanist, Bicameral Demo-Oligarchic Utopia? Ironkraft and Cheesecraft An incomplete list of people I envy: Kendrick Lamar, Shane McCrae, James Matthew Wilson, Chris Childers, Dick Davis, Amit Majmudar, Matthew Buckley Smith, Bill Coyle, Don Paterson, etc. etc. An incomplete list of people who inspire me: Yvor Winters, Irving Babbitt, Matthew Arnold, William Shakespeare, John Milton, the Attic Tragedians, E.A. Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Bowers, Richard Wilbur, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Vyasa, Simone Weil, William Morris. The Book of Job Isaiah 45:7 Alitu and Buzzsprout Kol Nidre My episode with Zina and David on Fireside Chat Harold Bloom The Archimedean point Support the show BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com 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 (/ /)

    56 min
  2. MAY 27

    Fitzgerald Strikes Back: Rothman's Rebuttal

    Topics discussed in this episode: -Email me your questions!!  -Cameron's substack, "Minor Tiresias" -My poem, "At Woodlawn" in Merion West -My poem, "Aztec Support" in Light -My episode on Learning the Secrets of English Verse -"Missing Measures" and "All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing" by Timothy Steele -De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum -"Notes On Metre" by Otto Jespersen -The Trager-Smith school of linguistics -The Halle-Keyser theory of prosody -Paul Kiparsky -Seymour Chapman -"The Rhythms of English Poetry" by Derek Attridge -"The Origin of Writing" by Roy Harris Support the show BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com 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 (/ /)

    24 min
  3. MAY 1

    "Bird Watcher" by Clive Wilmer (R.I.P.)

    Soundtrack to this episode Text of poem: Bird Watcher It returns to the same nest. The watcher lies beneath spring brushwood to await its coming– at watch so long he dreams himself becoming less than himself and more, the landscape’s eyes.  Though far beyond his eyes, beyond the range of field-glasses, he knows it breaks no bonds:  its instinct to his knowledge corresponds, riding the current of the season’s change.  What is there in a small bird’s blood that learns to plot its course by sun and stars, being drawn yearly toward a lost, remembered dawn?  The watcher broods on this. The bird returns. And all its colours flash where he attends– a deep blue mantling rust and white. It sings caged in his retina; then on curving wings veers off to vanish where the human ends.  Topics discussed in this episode include: -My episode with Zina and David on Fireside Chat -My essay, The Iron Lyre -My essay, The Monumentalist Manifesto -Subscribe to the Versecraft substack!  -Also subscribe to Zina, David, Matthew, Ethan, Alice, Steve, and Chris's substacks! -My interview with Dick Davis -John Ruskin and William Morris -The Books of Enoch -"To A Waterfowl" by William Cullen Bryant -"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens -A Poeta Ad Avem Support the show BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE. VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening. You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok: @versecraft Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com 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 (/ /)

    17 min
4.7
out of 5
26 Ratings

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Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.

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