"Mother Carey's Hen" By David Yezzi Versecraft podcast

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Text of poem HERE

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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Matthew comes for my prosodic neck (mea culpa: his reading was first foot trochee, feminine ending).

-Rabbi Neil Blumofe brings up Pirkei Avot

-Susan Spear and Catherine Chandler

-David Yezzi!

-Yezzi's new Anthony Hecht biography, Late Romance

-Matthew interviews David here

-Yezzi's new Selected, More Things In Heaven

-Mother Carey, Mater Cara, Stella Maris

-Metrical schemes and ambiguous scansions

-Salty mirages

-The Tao of the petrel

-Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius, "Following Nature"

-The Post-Symbolist Method

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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 (/ /)