{"id":1371,"date":"2011-06-13T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2011-06-13T12:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:32:43","slug":"read-this-abes-penny-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/13\/read-this-abes-penny-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This: Abe&#8217;s Penny (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/alina-simone.jpg\" alt=\"Alina Simone rocking the strumstick\" title=\"Alina Simone\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1370\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/alina-simone.jpg 600w, http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/alina-simone-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I first told you about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abespenny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Abe&#8217;s Penny<\/i><\/a>, the literary journal that publishes poems as a sequence of postcards, <a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/06\/abes-penny\/\">back in 2009<\/a>, and I&#8217;m happy to tell you co-founders Anna and Tess Knoebel are still going strong, and even having some fun experimenting with the form. Earlier this month, I went to their launch party for an issue featuring the lyrics and chords to an original song by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alinasimone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alina Simone<\/a>, accompanied by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spencertunick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Tunick<\/a> photographs. Simone performed that song, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abespenny.com\/tunicksimone33.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lost<\/a>,&#8221; along with two other songs from some of her other albums. I&#8217;d just started her collection of autobiographical essays, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0865479151\" target=\"_blank\"><i>You Must Go and Win<\/i><\/a>, which I&#8217;m really digging, and we got a chance to talk before the show, so next week I&#8217;ll be interviewing her for a big new project that I&#8217;ll be telling you about later this summer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, there&#8217;s already a new issue of <i>Abe&#8217;s Penny<\/i> coming, with poems by Dave Landsberger inspired by Cara Phillips&#8217; photography. If you want, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abespenny.com\/subscribe.html\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s easy to subscribe online<\/a> and start getting a postcard-sized dose of literature every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first told you about Abe&#8217;s Penny, the literary journal that publishes poems as a sequence of postcards, back in 2009, and I&#8217;m happy to tell you co-founders Anna and Tess Knoebel are still going strong, and even having some fun experimenting with the form. Earlier this month, I went to their launch party for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[101,100,1126,103,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}