"The Sponge" by Joshua Mehigan

Text of poem here. 

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Topics discussed in this episode include:

 

-Matthew's new book, Midlife! 

-Joshua Mehigan and his books, The Optimist and Accepting the Disaster

-Josh's interview on SLEERICKETS

-American Naturalism

-Josh's poem Down In the Valley

-Sponges 101

-Parapraxis, aka "The Freudian slip"

-Venice by Herman Melville 

-The gang and I talk The Pathetic Fallacy on SLEERICKETS

-Monism, Pantheism, Mysticism, oh my!

-Zen and the art of microbe filtration

-Everything is connected, man! 

-Learning how to be and not to be mortal.

-The Hindu Asrama system

-Accepting our disaster

 

 

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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 (/ /)