Read the essay here!

-"L'Envoi" by Herman Melville

-"Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century" by Melville

-"Clarel" by Melville

-"Moby-Dick" by Melville

-"The Maldive Shark" by Melville

-"The Confidence Man" by Melville

-"Timoleon" by Melville

-Gnostics, Cathars, and Bogomils

-Dualisms, Persian, French, and Indian

-White Symbolism: Lightning and the Whale

-Ahab's inverted Zoroastrianism-cum-Gnosticism

-The Ophites and Leviathan

-"Gnostic Mythos in Moby-Dick" by Thomas Vargish

-"Timaeus" by Plato

-"Historical and Critical Dictionary" by Pierre Bayle

-The Wintersian "post-symbolist" poem

-Reconciling with the squaliform demiurge

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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 (/ /)

Mea culpa: Sorry for the confusion-- of course I DID end up giving a recap of my adventures.

Read this essay on Substack!

-Travel details mentioned: the Haar, Alfred Janniot, the Musee Branly, the museums in Nancy, Spinoza's homes

-Friends mentioned: Cameron Clark, David Klug, Niall Campbell, Gerry Cambridge, Victoria Moul

-The Movement and the New Lines anthology

-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

-Thomistic aesthetics

-The constructive, authorial nature of identity

-Heideggerian "thingness"

-Cartographers in the foreign lands of one another, themselves foreign lands.

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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 (/ /)

Read this essay (and see the poems) on Substack!

Poems discussed:

"The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the Desert" by Herman Melville (my Melville essay)

"Lucifer in Starlight" by George Meredith

"Cold-Blooded Creatures" by Elinor Wylie

"The Animals" by Edwin Muir

"Sunt Leones" by Stevie Smith (Fayne's essay)

"Beyond the Demonic Element" by Harvey Shapiro

"Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought" by X.J. Kennedy

"Halloween" by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (see also SLEERICKETS #2)

"The Beautiful Animal" by Geoffrey Brock

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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 (/ /)