{"id":128520,"date":"2023-09-02T11:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128520"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:02:15","slug":"intro-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/intro-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks!<\/p>\n<p>I procrastinated doing this a bit, but hello! My name is Alex Aimee Kist and I am currently writing from Salem, MA. I am the Managing Editor of Ginger Bug Press and the Development Committee Leader of the Boston Poetry Slam. I am also the founder of Northshore Writers, a group of folks on the MA Northshore that get together once a month to join a creative space, write, and receive feedback. You can find my work in Beyond Queer Words, The Closed Eye Open, Quartz Literary, and the 2021 Poetry Marathon Anthology.<\/p>\n<p>This is my second official poetry marathon and I am so excited to go on this journey with you all. I have found that this exercise really helps me stretch my craft. I can&#8217;t wait to get all these poems polished up, but for now let&#8217;s get a little chaotic together.<\/p>\n<p>xo Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks! I procrastinated doing this a bit, but hello! My name is Alex Aimee Kist and I am currently writing from Salem, MA. I am the Managing Editor of Ginger Bug Press and the Development Committee Leader of the Boston Poetry Slam. I am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128520","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\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128650,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128520\/revisions\/128650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}