{"id":2798,"date":"2011-03-31T08:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2011-03-31T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T13:20:08","slug":"first-warning-national-poetry-month-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=2798","title":{"rendered":"First Warning &#8211; National Poetry Month alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this your early alarm going off for, yes folks, tomorrow begins the annual &#8220;National Poetry Month&#8221; brought to you by the fine folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.poets.org\/<\/a>.  There is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/406\" target=\"_blank\">Poem in Your Pocket Day<\/a> to prepare for &#8211; April 14th: &#8220;The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Poetry Foundation<\/a> may also be a good resource for you but wander where you will in preparation for the month. And yes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/404\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s an app for that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways to celebrate, both public and personal.  Share poems, learn new ones, write a few of your own.  For the past two years I have held a <a href=\"http:\/\/queenofallmydomains.com\/quiltr\/?p=2032\" target=\"_blank\">Haiku Slam event in the World of Warcraft<\/a>, amazing and delighting the residents of Echo Isles server with haiku about mages and Chuck Norris.  Last year people joined right in!<\/p>\n<p>So what will <i>you<\/i> do to celebrate?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prepare now poets<br \/>\nPoetry month is April.<br \/>\nRead and write &#8211; start now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this your early alarm going off for, yes folks, tomorrow begins the annual &#8220;National Poetry Month&#8221; brought to you by the fine folks at http:\/\/www.poets.org\/. There is also Poem in Your Pocket Day to prepare for &#8211; April 14th: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=2798\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[514,537],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-in-the-world","category-world-poetry-day","tag-art-in-the-world","tag-world-poetry-day"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-J8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}