COME OUT TO CLEVELAND June 13th to hear David, Matthew, and Ryan read!

Soundtrack to this episode

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Au revoir until June!

-"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friederich Nietzsche

-"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

-"Pere Goriot" by Honore de Balzac

-The aesthetic parasite

-"And Which of Them In Time Would Be Betrayed" by Derek Walcott

-"The Georgics" by Publius Vergilius Maro

-"The Metamorphoses" by Publius Ovidius Naso

-The tale of Orpheus and Eurydice

-"Portrait of A Lady On Fire" directed by Celine Sciamma

-"Eurydice's Footnote" by A.E. Stallings

-"Pulling the Chariot of the Sun" by Shane McCrae

-"Eurydice On the Art of Poetry" by Shane McCrae

-"The Inferno" by Dante Alighieri

-"The Odyssey" by Omeros

-"Eurydice" by Adrienne Su

-"Axel" by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

-The Orphic imperative absorbs all

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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 (/ /)