{"id":189,"date":"2009-04-21T12:11:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=189"},"modified":"2009-04-21T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T17:16:02","slug":"link-wednesday-national-poetry-month-poets-play-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Link Tuesday &#8211; National Poetry Month, Poets play baseball and graduate Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"images\/whittierpoets.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>The site has been quiet recently &#8211; lots going on.  But we certainly couldn&#8217;t let <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/41\" target=\"blank\"><u>National Poetry Month<\/u><\/a> pass us by.  Since April has been so named it gives news organizations license to run their &#8220;special interest&#8221; pieces.  We certainly could never hope (nor wish) to link to all of them, but you will find a few.  And if over the course of the month you come across particular sites or stories of interest, please share them.  Now read on for assorted and sundry links!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/406\" target =\"blank\"><u>Poem in Your Pocket Day<\/u><\/a>.  About what it sounds like.  On April 30th various organizations encourage you to carry a poem in your pocket &#8211; share it with your friends.  I think the most famous example of someone carrying a poem in his (or her) pocket was Percy Shelley &#8211; supposedly he had Keats&#8217; poetry in his shirt pocket on the day Shelley drowned.  So, there&#8217;s that (link courtesy of nataline).<\/li>\n<li>So Thursday (4\/23) is Shakespeare&#8217;s birthday.  Cool.  Apparently people are encouraging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/04\/21\/talk.like.shakespeare\/index.html\" target=\"blank\"><u>Talk Like Shakespeare Day<\/u><\/a> to celebrate this.  p.otw.org will not be participating.<\/li>\n<li>NPR has been doing a number of poetry stories recently (no doubt tied to NaPoMo).  Here&#8217;s one that discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=102443902&#038;ft=1&#038;f=1037\" target=\"blank\"><u>performing Wendell Berry&#8217;s work<\/u><\/a>.  Wish we could have seen the performance.<\/li>\n<li>And unrelated to anything at all &#8211; faithful reader johnlos alerts us to the existence of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcpoets.com\/landing\/index\" target=\"blank\"><u>Whittier College Poets<\/u><\/a>.  As he notes in his email, &#8220;Whittier College is probably most famous for being where Richard Nixon went to undergrad.  For some reason their athletics aren&#8217;t very well known&#8230;&#8221;  Alas.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The site has been quiet recently &#8211; lots going on. But we certainly couldn&#8217;t let National Poetry Month pass us by. Since April has been so named it gives news organizations license to run their &#8220;special interest&#8221; pieces. We certainly could never hope (nor wish) to link to all of them, but you will find [&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-189","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\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}