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"Root Words" by Forester McClatchey

"Root Words" by Forester McClatchey

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-My annus mirabilis

-Forester McClatchey!

-Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

-Renovating the sonnet-house

-Mycorrhizal intelligence

-Is the pathos fallacious?

-A thinking cheese for the thinking man

-The ents at the entmoot

-My recent episode on Sleerickets with Alice

-Cosmic double-consciousness

-Dark circles of eternity and oblivion

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My favorite poetry podcasts for:
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 (/ /)

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