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Mea culpa: Yes, in the heat of the moment, I mispronounced mise en scene. A la guillotine!

Topics discussed include:

-Some po-biz kvetching

-Morri Creech!

-The telos of Versecraft

-The "ghost" of pentameter

-The Stevensian cosmovision and the metaphysics of metaphor

-The axis mundi

-Nicholas of Cusa and coincidentia oppositorum

-The Moirai

-Contronyms

-"An Ordinary Childhood" by Morri Creech

-Selve oscura dolce

-I.A. Richards and tenor & vehicle

-"Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth

-"Poem Without Metaphors" by Matthew Buckley Smith

-The Blumovian Review

-My chapbook, "The Necklace of Harmonia"

-My book, "Against Oblivion"

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
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The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

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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 (/ /)