"Perspective On Might" by John Poch

Read the poem and this essay on Substack!

Links discussed in this episode include:

-New Literary Matters is out!

-My poem in LM: "Freud Dreams of Egypt"

-My poems in The Deronda Review: "The Kabbalist" and "Modeh Ani"

-My poem in The Sonneteer: "After Poe"

-My guide to Gilgamesh in NVR: "He Who Saw the Abyss"

-My review of MBS in GRR

-M.D. Skeen's review of The Necklace

-The ALSCW Conference

-Buy The Necklace of Harmonia!

-Get hype for Against Oblivion, out Oct. 11th!

-John Poch, The Vassar Miller Prize, and 32 Poems

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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 (/ /)