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Whistling Through
By Jeffrey Betcher and Annie Finch
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Diagnosed with a terminal cancer, poet and community activist Jeffrey Betcher spent the last months of his life crafting an extraordinary crown of sonnets. Although Jeffrey had never written in meter before, at mentor Annie Finch's suggestion he began a crown in anapestic rhythm that he crafted into the g
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