"The Heirloom" By Michael Donaghy Versecraft podcast

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Text of poem here.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Midlife by Matthew Buckley Smith

-The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse by Christopher Childers

-Khosrow and Shirin by Dick Davis

-In Ghostlight by Ryan Wilson

-A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By The Eye by Penelope Pelizzon

-The Nature of Things Fragile by Peter Vertacnik

-My poem Tlaloc on E-Verse Radio

-SLEERICKETS and Versecraft do tragedy, Part I and Part II

-Thank you for your sharp ears, Dan Brown!

-The Metaphysical vogue

-Starting with the man in the mirror

-Letting the sunshine in

-The (grindcore noises) DUMPSTER OF DEATH

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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 (/ /)