{"id":105436,"date":"2022-06-13T21:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T01:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=105436"},"modified":"2022-06-13T21:08:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T01:08:25","slug":"getting-ready-for-the-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/getting-ready-for-the-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for the Marathon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>What I put in my application was pretty thorough (because I was excited!), so I&#8217;ll post an excerpt from that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I have been wanting to write a sort of imitation of &#8217;13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird&#8217; for while, 13 short poems called &#8217;13 Ways of Looking at a Waterfall.&#8217; I love to hike and waterfalls are a top destination. I live about 2 hours from the Appalachian foothills (near the N. Georgia\/N. Carolina\/S. Carolina borders) and there are dozens of trails to waterfalls in the area.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To prepare, I will look over Wallace Stevens&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/45236\/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird\">original poem<\/a>, look at photographs of favorite waterfalls, brainstorm sensory imagery I could use, and make a list of short forms I might want to try. I don&#8217;t usually use forms, but it&#8217;s fun for the challenge sometimes. I wrote a pantoum about a waterfall a couple of months ago, so that could be poem #13. I&#8217;m sure I will also be doing some field research!&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For photos of some of my favorite waterfalls, follow me on Instagram. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/apoetseyeview\/?hl=en\">@apoetseyeview<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9621-1.heic\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105439\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9621-1.heic\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9621.heic\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105437\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9621.heic\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone! What I put in my application was pretty thorough (because I was excited!), so I&#8217;ll post an excerpt from that. &#8220;I have been wanting to write a sort of imitation of &#8217;13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird&#8217; for while, 13 short poems&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-introductions","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105442,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105436\/revisions\/105442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}