{"id":120,"date":"2009-01-21T12:50:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=120"},"modified":"2009-01-22T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T18:49:43","slug":"link-wednesday-elizabeth-alexander-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Link Wednesday &#8211; Elizabeth Alexander, Edgar Allan Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various poets and poems were all over the news thanks to the Inauguration on the 20th and Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s birthday on the 19th.  So here are a smattering of links about the two:<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/28738394#28738394\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">.msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} <\/style>\n<p class=\"msnbcLinks\">Visit msnbc.com for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\">World News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>MSNBC&#8217;s video of the reading by Elizabeth Alexander.  I would be interested in hearing thoughts on it (I&#8217;ll post the transcript in the comments).<\/li>\n<li><em>Time<\/em> has <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/arts\/article\/0,8599,1872643,00.html?iid=tsmodule\" target=\"blank\">an interview with Elizabeth Alexander<\/a><\/u> about her process and thoughts on inaugural poems.<\/li>\n<li>And on to Poe.  NPR has had a few pieces on him.  The first is a <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=99514935&#038;ft=1&#038;f=1037\" target=\"blank\">remembrance<\/a><\/u> with &#8220;Gomez&#8221; from <em>The Addams Family<\/em> (I like that the slug on the website doesn&#8217;t even refer to the actor by his real name).  The second story I&#8217;m linking to <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=99561310&#038;ft=1&#038;f=1037\" target=\"blank\">covers the efforts of yet another city<\/a><\/u> (Boston) to lay some claim to Poe.  (He was born there in 1809 and was taken away shortly thereafter upon being orphaned.  Apparently he later claimed he was ashamed to be born in Boston.) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various poets and poems were all over the news thanks to the Inauguration on the 20th and Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s birthday on the 19th. So here are a smattering of links about the two: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy MSNBC&#8217;s video of the reading by Elizabeth Alexander. I [&hellip;]<\/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-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}