[Elijah Blumov]

Dear denizens of Eratosphere,

My name is Elijah, I'm a poet and bookseller living in Cleveland. I'm a new addition to the Eratosphere community, but have admired from afar the activities and work of its members for some time now, and have been a staunch devotee and practitioner of formal verse for years. It's gratifying and wonderful to have discovered a group of people so passionate about the craft of verse. You all, I feel, are therefore the ideal audience for a new podcast I've been working on, entitled "Versecraft."

Versecraft is a podcast which attempts to provide a more thorough degree of poetic analysis, both on the level of semantics and technique, than has hitherto been the norm among poetry podcasts (this is no shade at all to Sleerickets-- I adore that podcast, and take a good deal of inspiration from it). My goal is not only to expose listeners to excellent formal verse, but to teach a lay audience, through featured poems, the craft and criticism of poetry.

Naturally, I do not presume to "teach" any of you-- many of you are far more experienced than I. I do however think you would enjoy my analyses, or, if nothing else, the poems themselves. This podcast is above all a celebration of the beauties of traditional verse, and the majority of my featured poems will be modern (occasionally contemporary) examples of its use.

I really do hope you enjoy, and I welcome any criticism you may have as well. My audio quality is not as good as Sleerickets YET, but I'm working on it.

You can find the podcast here on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...t/id1645823917

as well as on Spotify and many other platforms. Or, you can listen directly on my website:

versecraft.buzzsprout.com

Thank you so much for lending me your ears! If you like what you hear, please subscribe, and even leave a rating or review if you're feeling impassioned/generous.

Yours sincerely,

Elijah