{"id":5850,"date":"2020-03-24T17:47:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2020-03-28T17:04:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T21:04:18","slug":"poetry-jam-prose-in-quarantine-8-9pm-wed-3-25-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/poetry-jam-prose-in-quarantine-8-9pm-wed-3-25-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Jam:  Prose in Quarantine 8-9pm Wed 3\/25\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Time: 8 pm, Wed 3\/25\/2020<br \/>\nPlace: Online @ <a href=\"https:\/\/us04web.zoom.us\/j\/106234882?pwd=MGh4WDlaS2l2MWVRZ21TSlMzaGREQT09\">Zoom: Meeting ID: 106 234 882 Password: 003528<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Somehow I got it into my head to do an online Poetry Slam during this weird quarantine we&#8217;re all doing. So I asked a few folks I know who write poetry (as well as songs and science fiction) if they&#8217;d come read some of their work. It will be ad hoc and a work in progress, but I promise some interesting poets and diverse works.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the tentative list, and if anyone wants in, I&#8217;d be happy to add them on. I&#8217;d like to keep this one to 10-12 people and 6 minute readings of two poems each. Or one, if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ve got to share.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5850-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/zoom_0.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/zoom_0.mp4\">https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/zoom_0.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Featured Poets<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mary McElveen<\/strong> &#8211; was poet laureate for Alexandria, VA, and has published a collection of her poems in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7506651-cheerfully-lost\">Cheerully Lost. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert J. Howe<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;His poetry has appeared in\u00a0<em>The California Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0<em>50 Haiku<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Punch Drunk Press,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Serving House Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>the Loch Raven Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Main Street Rag<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The Piltdown Review<\/em>.&#8221; His website is at: <a href=\"https:\/\/rjhowe.net\/\">https:\/\/rjhowe.net\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Barbara Chepaitis &#8211; <\/strong>Barbara is a speculative fiction writer who teaches writing at an upstate New York University. Or maybe that&#8217;s out of date. Anyway, in addition to helping Ziggy (below) with his work, she&#8217;s got a few of her own.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jacob Bennet<\/strong> &#8211; Jacob is a friend of mine who&#8217;s a terrific songwriter. I recently heard him do a reading of his favorite poems from other authors, so I asked if he&#8217;d read his own work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stan Ascher &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Also a musical friend, Stan is a wild man and a wild card. Bound to be interesting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ziggy (the dog) with vocal assistance by Steve Sawicki &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Ziggy is the author of <em>DOGGEREL: Pomes For Hoomins &amp; Other Friends.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time: 8 pm, Wed 3\/25\/2020 Place: Online @ Zoom: Meeting ID: 106 234 882 Password: 003528 Somehow I got it into my head to do an online Poetry Slam during this weird quarantine we&#8217;re all doing. So I asked a few folks I know who write poetry (as well as songs and science fiction) if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2629,"featured_media":5854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}