{"id":561,"date":"2010-04-14T11:38:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/14\/national-poetry-month-2\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T11:38:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:38:26","slug":"national-poetry-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/14\/national-poetry-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Hits for National Poetry Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8658;Any poets who have already filed their income tax returns and are thus at loose ends for the next 24 hours? You&#8217;ve still got time to enter <a href=\"http:\/\/bombsite.com\/issues\/0\/articles\/2959\">the 2010 <i>BOMB<\/i> poetry contest<\/a>&#8212;even more now that they&#8217;ve extended the deadline a day since I first got the email announcement! For a reading fee of $20, which includes a one-year subscription to the magazine, you can submit three to five poems for consideration; the ultimate winner, selected by Susan Howe, will receive $500 and be published in a future issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8658;Over the years, I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of attending several iterations of the Academy of American Poet&#8217;s annual &#8220;Poetry and the Creative Mind<\/a>&#8221; benefit; you can read my dispatches from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/000306.html\">the 2004 event<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001325.html\">the 2005 event<\/a> here, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/party_hopping\/scene_poetry_the_creative_mind_56989.asp\">in 2007<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/lecture_circuit\/somewhere_in_her_poetry_i_could_find_myself_dianne_reeves_on_gwendolyn_brooks_81618.asp\">again in 2008<\/a> I was at <i>GalleyCat<\/i>, and then I couldn&#8217;t make it to last year&#8217;s show, <a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/11\/poetry-creative-mind\/\">but Mrs. Beatrice was there<\/a>. We&#8217;ll both be unable to attend this year&#8217;s event, which is being held next Tuesday night (4\/20) at Alice Tully Hall, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/92\">you should go if you can<\/a>: this year&#8217;s celebrity readers include Bill Irwin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Gabriel Byrne, and Rosanne Cash, and if it&#8217;s anything like the shows I&#8217;ve been to, it&#8217;s going to be a wonderful evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8658;Any poets who have already filed their income tax returns and are thus at loose ends for the next 24 hours? You&#8217;ve still got time to enter the 2010 BOMB poetry contest&#8212;even more now that they&#8217;ve extended the deadline a day since I first got the email announcement! For a reading fee of $20, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}