Of The Poet’s Heart

M. Anthony C. shares a poem without commentary or effect. If you would like to read "Flying Coach One Tuesday Afternoon," please read it in the substack. 

In this episode, a poem is shared without effect or commentary. If you would like to read it, please do so on M. Anthony C.'s substack. 

M. Anthony C. shares his joy at reading one play of Shakespeare's a month with his poetry pals. He then shares a poem he's in the middle of revising that is responding to the play "Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare, part of an ongoing collection of his responding to the works of Shakespeare. 

M. Anthony C. shares his latest semi-poetic studies, watching and reading V for Vendetta, and shares how he has tried to write a poem in a similar rhythm to the folksong about Guy Fawkes. He then shares a short poem about flying in economy. To read "Flying Coach One Tuesday Afternoon," go to M. Anthony's substack. 

M. Anthony C. muses on the fragments of Sappho and how he experimented with an English adaptation of her ancient meter. He shares how poets build their "own society" by celebrating with both the living and the dead. M. Anthony then shares the prelude poem of his master's thesis, Dear Isa: May-September. To read the poem, please see M. Anthony's substack. 

M. Anthony C. shares a bonus poem that he wrote while paddle boarding at Sloan's Lake Park. To read it, go to M. Anthony's substack. 

M. Anthony C. shares the poem from Canto 2 without commentary or effect. To read it, go to M. Anthony's substack.

M. Anthony C. shares the poem from Canto 1 without commentary or effect. To read it, go to M. Anthony's substack.

In a rare move, M. Anthony C. provides a footnote to his podcast, a comment on its structure and ambition: 1st and 2nd Saturdays of each month are for finished poems; 3rd Saturdays for a poem in development; 4th Saturdays for recordings of the first two poems shared along with a bonus, finished one; 5th Saturdays for anything the poet's heart desires. M. Anthony wishes to share his poetry with the general public. 

M. Anthony C. shares how he has been reading Yeats and then draws back the curtain on his own writing process, sharing one poem in development that was born from some experiments in line lengths. He shares a poem made of lines with about four syllables in them each (iambic dimeter). There is no substack post corresponding to poems in development.