Versecraft

Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.

Podcasting since 2022 • 124 episodes

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Read this essay (and see the poems) on Substack!Poems discussed:"The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson"In the Desert" by Herman Melville (

Read this essay at The Sonneteer! Sonnet types discussed:The Sicilian: ABAB ABAB, CDC DCDThe Italian: ABBA ABBA, CDC DCDThe Engl...

-Read this essay on Substack! -What is meter?-10 Reasons to write in meter-Kinds of meter (Accentual, Syllabic, Parellelist, Quantita...

Read this essay on Substack!Topics discussed:-Disco Demolition Night-Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death"

-Read the poems on my Substack!-If there is a “West,” all Semites and Aryans are part of it-Arab Classicism and the House of Wisdom-Al Ma’arri...

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