{"id":424,"date":"2013-11-06T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=424"},"modified":"2013-11-06T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:21:57","slug":"link-wednesday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Link Wednesday – Robert Pinsky, Rap Genius, Footnotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robert >> No longer at Slate<\/a>, the former US Poet Laureate has a new site for discussing poetry, joining the ranks of the WordPress many (link<\/a>). The current discussion<\/a> centers around parallels between Edgar Allen Poe’s “Fairy-land” and (potw.org favorite) Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Man Moth”. The comments are robust and engaging. The site is certainly worth bookmarking and visiting regularly.<\/p>\n

>> The website Rap Genius<\/a> crowdsources rap annotations, allowing users to login and supplement the text for lyrics to a range of songs. It has expanded to include close cousins “rock” and poetry<\/a>. Here’s a link<\/a> to Shakespeare’s 18th sonnet. Annotations range from “translating” to providing greater historical context to linking to YouTube videos. It is the Internet, after all (note the phrase, “Sometime too hot” links to this video “Attack of the Sun<\/a>“).<\/p>\n

>> Going in the opposite direction is this piece from the NY Times from 2011 that worries, “Will the E-Book Kill the Footnote?<\/a>“. I personally (and happily) suspect the footnote to be a hardy soul. And we haven’t seen the final iteration of the e-reader. In the meantime, sites like Grantland<\/a> are keeping footnotes alive and well on the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

>> No longer at Slate, the former US Poet Laureate has a new site for discussing poetry, joining the ranks of the WordPress many (link). The current discussion centers around parallels between Edgar Allen Poe’s “Fairy-land” and (potw.org favorite) Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Man Moth”. The comments are robust and engaging. The site is certainly worth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,79],"tags":[98,97,96],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-wednesday","category-poetry-in-pop-culture","tag-footnotes","tag-rap-genius","tag-robert-pinsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}