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The Whole in One: An Interview with James Matthew Wilson

Topics discussed in this episode include:

Wiseblood Books

The University of St. Thomas MFA Program

My episode on James Matthew Wilson

"The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking" by James Matthew Wilson

"The Wayward Thomist" by James Matthew Wilson

The Complete Essays of J.V. Cunningham

Jacques Maritain

"Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky

"La Vita Nuova" by Dante

Matthew 16

"In Ghostlight" by Ryan Wilson

"The River of the Immaculate Conception" by James Matthew Wilson

"Mass of the Americas" by Frank La Rocca

"The Bridge" by Hart Crane

"The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot

“Tradition and the Individual Talent” by T.S. Eliot

“Four Quartets” by T.S. Eliot

“The Illusion of Reaction” by Yvor Winters

“All the Fun’s In How You Say a Thing” by Timothy Steele

“Missing Measures” by Timothy Steele

F.T. Prince

“Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century” by Herman Melville

My episode on Helen Pinkerton

“Love in the Western World” by Denis de Rougemont

“Agape and Eros” by Anders Nygren

“The Marriage” by Yvor Winters 

“Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor

“Wiped Out” by James Matthew Wilson

“The Moon and Sixpence” by W. Somerset Maugh

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My favorite poetry podcasts for:
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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 (/ /)