{"id":1564,"date":"2025-04-25T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/?page_id=1564"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:49:34","slug":"national-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/news\/national-poetry-month\/","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-embed-wrapper video-embed-16x9\" data-video-provider=\"youtube\" data-video-id=\"JQidd0S40i8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed-iframe\"  title=\"Dear Poet 2025: Natalie Diaz Reads &quot;They Don\u2019t Love You Like I Love You&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JQidd0S40i8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>National Poetry Month was established in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets to celebrate the amazing wealth of emotion, humor and human experience found in poetry. Held every April, it is the largest literary celebration in the world.\u00a0 Participate by discovering new poets and sharing old favorites.<\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself half naked<br \/>\nand barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing,<br \/>\nagain, the earth&#8217;s great, sonorous moan that says<br \/>\nyou are the air of the now and gone, that says<br \/>\nall you love will turn to dust,<br \/>\nand will meet you there, do not<br \/>\nraise your fist. Do not raise<br \/>\nyour small voice against it. And do not<br \/>\ntake cover. Instead, curl your toes<br \/>\ninto the grass, watch the cloud<br \/>\nascending from your lips. Walk<br \/>\nthrough the garden&#8217;s dormant splendor.<br \/>\nSay only, thank you.<br \/>\nThank you.<\/p>\n<p>-\u201dThank You\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/ross-gay\">Ross Gay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tNational Poetry Month was established in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets to celebrate the amazing wealth of emotion and human experience found in poetry.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":19892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38975,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/38975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}