{"id":72,"date":"2009-01-14T11:49:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T15:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-01-14T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T16:21:34","slug":"link-wednesday-andrea-cohen-william-blake-robert-frost-cory-doctorow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Link Wednesday &#8211; Andrea Cohen, William Blake, Robert Frost, Cory Doctorow&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200901\/poem-haystack\">&#8220;In a Haystack&#8221;<\/a><\/u> by Andrea Cohen, published in the current <em>Atlantic Monthly<\/em><\/li>\n<li>This is an older link, but one well worth sharing. <a href=\"images\/blake-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"images\/blake-sm.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a> Here is <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelpriddy.com\/\">Joel Priddy&#8217;s<\/a><\/u> cartoon story, <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.ufl.edu\/imagetext\/archives\/v3_2\/priddy\/\">&#8220;Mr. Blake&#8217;s Company&#8221;<\/a><\/u>.  For more information on Blake, his <u><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_blake\">Wikipedia page<\/a><\/u> is a good primer.<\/li>\n<li>This is not about poetry or about reading poetry, but about <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/Features\/2009\/01\/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html\">writing in the Internet age<\/a><\/u>.  Some good advice by <u><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cory_doctorow\">Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>An interview on NPR from a month ago about Elizabeth Alexander who was <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=98467631&#038;ft=1&#038;f=1037\">chosen to write the Inaugural poem<\/a><\/u> for Barack Obama<\/li>\n<li>Finally, thinking about inaugural poems (I&#8217;m sure I would not enjoy the task of praising someone in verse in such a formal setting) led me to stumble across <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/21\/AR2006042101378.html?nav=rss_artsandliving\/entertainmentnews\">this story<\/a><\/u> about the inaugural poem Robert Frost wrote for JFK.  The Library of Congress has <u><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/r?ammem\/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc\/088))\">original scans<\/a><\/u> of the text Frost was attempting to read from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a Haystack&#8221; by Andrea Cohen, published in the current Atlantic Monthly This is an older link, but one well worth sharing. Here is Joel Priddy&#8217;s cartoon story, &#8220;Mr. Blake&#8217;s Company&#8221;. For more information on Blake, his Wikipedia page is a good primer. This is not about poetry or about reading poetry, but about writing [&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-72","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\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}