{"id":4172,"date":"2010-03-30T19:57:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T02:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2010-03-30T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T03:08:16","slug":"national-poetry-month-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/03\/30\/national-poetry-month-april-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Month – April 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s almost here.\u00a0 April will be National Poetry Month<\/em><\/a>, during which we celebrate the placement of words into various shapes, patterns and meanings that only a select few can decipher.\u00a0 Don’t worry, if you saw the poetry reading at the most recent Presidential Inauguration, she was only placed at the podium to intercept bullets.\u00a0 That has nothing to do with poetry.<\/p>\n

For those of us fortunate and intelligent enough to avoid the study of poetry in a university, the month of April can be a strangely rewarding treat.\u00a0 It’s an awkward and sort of a lame month of celebration, but it works.\u00a0 Don’t ask me why.\u00a0 Just think of yourself as being in the National Poetry Month and walk into a good bookstore and go to the poetry shelf to see what happens.\u00a0 If you’re a total dumbass, nothing will happen of course.\u00a0 But if you can read, you might start wondering why words make you want to have a coffee, or a piece of bread, or some wine, or cheese, or wear a hat, or some old boots.<\/p>\n

I think I am going to celebrate Poetry Month by posting parts of my unfinished new video.\u00a0 It mixes images, music, and words to make something that can really only be explained in terms of poetry anyway.\u00a0 So I claim the right, during National Poetry Month, to be somewhat mysterious, cryptic, unfinished, insulting, fuzzy, indulgent, and unintelligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s almost here.\u00a0 April will be National Poetry Month, during which we celebrate the placement of words into various shapes, patterns and meanings that only a select few can decipher.\u00a0 Don’t worry, if you saw the poetry reading at the most recent Presidential Inauguration, she was only placed at the podium to intercept bullets.\u00a0 That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[169,167,900],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-poem","tag-poets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t