{"id":297,"date":"2011-10-06T22:51:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T02:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-10-06T22:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T02:54:30","slug":"link-thursday-ted-macarthur-grants-nobel-prize-kate-beaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Link Thursday – TED, MacArthur Grants, Nobel Prize, Kate Beaton…"},"content":{"rendered":"

How about a smattering of links from the past however many months? How about it?<\/p>\n

Item 1<\/strong> – “Spoken word” poet Sarah Kay (is she not just a poet?). An engaging performance.
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Item 2<\/strong> – Poets Kay Ryan and A.E. Stallings were named as MacArthur Fellows. Read a bit more about Kay Ryan here<\/a> and A.E. Stallings here<\/a>. This also affords me the opportunity to link to Kay Ryan’s “Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Item 3<\/strong> – The Nobel Prize in Literature went to Tomas Transtromer<\/a>, Swedish poet. That’s a tremendous name.<\/p>\n

Item 4<\/strong> – Kate Beaton
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Kate Beaton has recently released her first book of comics<\/a>. I am using this opportunity to share one of her Shelley and Byron comics. Byron really is a scoundrel, isn’t he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How about a smattering of links from the past however many months? How about it? Item 1 – “Spoken word” poet Sarah Kay (is she not just a poet?). An engaging performance. Item 2 – Poets Kay Ryan and A.E. Stallings were named as MacArthur Fellows. Read a bit more about Kay Ryan here and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}