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Versecraft

Elijah Perseus Blumov

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

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129 episodes

  1. "Perspective On Might" by John Poch 21:07
  2. "Epistemology of Poetry" by Robert Conquest 17:40
  3. "The Wind Is Round" by Howard Moss 19:15
  4. The Poisoned Well: Melville and Gnosticism 41:59
  5. "Identity" by Elizabeth Jennings 18:34
  6. 10 Poems I Like Part V 37:23
  7. Little Golden Songs: The Art of the Sonnet 52:43
  8. How To Write In Meter 101 36:17
  9. "Disco Sucks" 17:43
  10. Snap Into A Slim Hymn: The Art of Epigram Pt. 2 27:41
  11. Kvetched in Stone: The Art of Epigram Pt. 1 23:55
  12. "Bedtime Metaphysics" by Morri Creech 25:36
  13. John Clare and the Madness of Poets 27:19
  14. "The Night Mirror" by John Hollander 17:37
  15. Black Magic: Two Poems by Seamus Heaney 28:42
  16. The Via Negativa of R.S. Thomas 25:23
  17. The Numinous Pastorals of Robert Wells 24:10
  18. "Horses on the Camargue" by Roy Campbell 30:26
  19. 10 Poems I Like Part IV 37:04
  20. "Root Words" by Forester McClatchey 18:40
  21. "In Chandler Country" by Dana Gioia 32:12
  22. On Translation: "Roman Elegy V" by J.W. von Goethe 29:37
  23. Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour, Part 2 1:37:02
  24. Schopenhauer Cocktail Hour, Part I (feat. Cameron and Ethan) 1:05:11
  25. "Preludes to Memnon 1:4-5" by Conrad Aiken 30:00
  26. Singing the Counter-Revolution: Ryan Wilson Interviews EPB 45:32
  27. LIVE @ St. Thomas: "The Tear" by Richard Crashaw 28:47
  28. Hermetic Angelology: An Interview with Ryan Wilson 57:01
  29. The Whole in One: An Interview with James Matthew Wilson 1:18:14
  30. Footnotes to Job: The Versecraft 100th ep AMA! 56:14
  31. 10 Poems I Like Part III 39:54
  32. Fitzgerald Strikes Back: Rothman's Rebuttal 23:34
  33. "De Anima" by Howard Nemerov 22:59
  34. "Bird Watcher" by Clive Wilmer (R.I.P.) 16:53
  35. Learning the Secrets of English Verse 31:34
  36. The Ern Malley Hoax! (and "Monologue," by James McAuley) 29:56
  37. On Translation: 5 Ways of Looking at Lope 31:50
  38. "Lachrimae Antiquae Novae" by Geoffrey Hill 27:49
  39. "Nor Strange It Is" by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 19:47
  40. "Kermes Red" by Melissa Range 17:49
  41. Cosmic Architecture feat. David Klug 40:08
  42. Scansion Is Boring! feat. David Klug 51:46
  43. "Christmas Tree" by James Merrill 20:32
  44. 10 More Poems I Like 37:20
  45. "An Arundel Tomb" by Philip Larkin 29:06
  46. "The Education of the Blind Poet" by Cameron Clark 27:46
  47. "The Last Act" by John Martin Finlay 27:23
  48. Receivers of the Gods: A Conversation with The Classical Outlook 1:10:00
  49. WURSTKRAFT HOLIDAYSPEZIAL 8:08
  50. "On the Anthropic Principle" by Frederick Turner 25:25