Root

noun
1. a part of the body of a plant that develops, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
2. the embedded or basal portion of a hair, tooth, nail, nerve, etc.
3. the source or origin of a thing: The love of money is the root of all evil.
4. an offshoot or scion.
5. Mathematics: a quantity that, when multiplied by itself a certain number of times, produces a given quantity
6. Grammar.: a morpheme that underlies an inflectional or derivational paradigm
7. roots: the personal relationships, affinity for a locale, habits, and the like, that make a country, region, city, or town one's true home: He lived in Tulsa for a few years, but never established any roots there.
8. Music: the lowest tone of a chord when arranged as a series of thirds; the fundamental.
9. Machinery: (in a screw or other threaded object) the narrow inner surface between threads. Compare crest (def. 18), flank (def. 7).
verb (used without object)
10. to become fixed or established.
–verb (used with object)
11. to pull, tear, or dig up by the roots (often fol. by up or out); to extirpate; exterminate; remove completely (often fol. by up or out): to root out crime.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Getting Started!

First, I wanted to thank everyone for our lovely evening meeting over at Water St. tonight. It's really invigorating to hear everybody's poems and thoughts after so much preparation getting to this point.

I'm going to post the poem I read tonight soon and I hope you all will follow suit!

Just a reminder, we decided that our next poem should be up by around June 25 and our discussion of those poems should be up by July 2.

If you have any questions about the blog or dates/etc, I guess it would be best to post your comment to this post.

Thanks!
-Shana

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