{"id":125787,"date":"2023-08-29T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=125787"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:30:43","slug":"introduction-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/introduction-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greeting, fellow poets!\u00a0 This is my first year for the marathon, but I have been writing for a long, long time. I have taught American Literature in Maryland for the last 45 years. This will be my last year. I often imitate the authors in the course text book, using them as prompts for my own poetry.\u00a0 I am ready for some new prompts! I&#8217;ve been married for 43 years and have 2 grown children&#8211;one is a poet, too!! When my mom died 5 years ago, I processed my grief by writing memoirs about what I had learned from her. I self-published it under the title <em>Do Alligators Take Bath?<\/em> Then I started doing the Poem-A-Day challenges. From those, I have created four chap books. When I am not writing or teaching, I am creating fiber art; most include innovative use of layered fabrics like silk, wool, cotton, and chenille with lots of thread painting. I often write poems to go with my visual art. I like the combination of sight and words. I look forward to sharing this adventure with the rest of you.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to those who are working to make this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greeting, fellow poets!\u00a0 This is my first year for the marathon, but I have been writing for a long, long time. I have taught American Literature in Maryland for the last 45 years. This will be my last year. I often imitate the authors in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125787","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\/5239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125788,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125787\/revisions\/125788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}