Soundtrack to this episode

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

-Portrait of the artist in a digital world

-The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

-The decline and fall of poetry

-Four paths to pecuniary stability

-My episode on Amit Majmudar

-"Patronage" by Amit Majmudar

-Techno-feudalism

-The linger of poetic mystique

-Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia

-Commissions for Occasional poetry

-From philanthropy to patronage

-"Brother, can you spare a dime?"

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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 (/ /)