Of The Poet’s Heart

M. Anthony C. shares a tiny poem about a sneaky spider. Trigger Warning: do not read if you have arachnophobia. You may read it on manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging or sharing this podcast. To support more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart 

M. Anthony C. shares a tiny poem about water bears. You may read it on manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging or sharing this podcast. To support more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart 

M. Anthony C. shares a poem from his master's thesis "Dear Isa." You may read it on manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging or sharing this podcast. To support more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart 

In this canto, M. Anthony C. muses over Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as a rare example of Shakespeare being original. He then shares a poem in progress which sets up and then flouts its own expectations. To read the poem again, go to manthonyc.substack.com or click here. If you'd like to support his work, consider liking or sharing this podcast. Or, if you want to support him more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart or click here. 

M. Anthony C. ponders on the importance of theme in poetry and then shares a poem about a water bear. If you would like to support me directly, go to https://buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart or click here.

M. Anthony C. recounts translating a sonnet into English and muses on one thing that people and poems have in common. He then reads a poem from his "Dear Isa" thesis. 

M. Anthony C. shares a short, rhyming poem about someone else on a tandem bike. To read it, go to manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging with or sharing this podcast. If you want to support me more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart or click here. 

M. Anthony C. shares a tiny poem about a Giant Squid (written in sapphics). You may read it on manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging or sharing this podcast. To support more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart 

M. Anthony C. shares a poem about driving up a canyon in autumn. You may read it on manthonyc.substack.com or click here. Please consider engaging or sharing this podcast. To support more directly, go to buymeacoffee.com/ofthepoetsheart 

M. Anthony C. shares his thoughts on Romeo and Juliet, then shares a ghazal (pronounced guzzle) he is working on, a sprawling form from the Middle East that is only held only together by its repetitions and rhymes. To read the poem, go to manthonyc.substack.com. If you'd like to support my work, you can engage with and share this podcast, or go to buymeacoffe.com/ofthepoetsheart