{"id":145916,"date":"2024-05-15T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=145916"},"modified":"2024-06-11T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:34:14","slug":"registration-is-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/registration-is-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Registration is Open!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sign up is now open for the 2024 Poetry Marathon! You can sign up here<\/a>.
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The 2024 Poetry Marathon starts at 9 AM ET on Saturday June 15th and will go till 9 AM ET on Sunday June 16th.<\/p>\n

Those who are interested in doing a half marathon start at 9 AM ET on Saturday June 15th and go till 9 PM on that same day. Or they can start at 9 PM ET on the 15th and continue to 9 AM on the 16th, which works better for some time zones.<\/p>\n

The goal of The Poetry Marathon is to write and post one poem an hour for 24 hours. Half marathoners post a poem per hour for a 12 hour period. You can catch up if you miss an hour, but you cannot get ahead.<\/p>\n

This is an international event with participants from all around the globe. Generally 500 people attempt the marathon. You do not have to be a poet to participate. To find out how to convert your timezone go here.<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a new prompt offered every hour. Some find this helpful, some ignore it completely.<\/p>\n

To learn more go here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To sign up go here<\/a>.<\/strong>
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If you are interested in participating please sign up by 9 PM ET on the 10th of June. We will get reach out to applicants on the 24th of May, and the 3rd and 11th of June, depending on when they apply. Most people who apply will be accepted. If you have not heard from us by the 12th of June please send us an email at poets@thepoetrymarathon.com. Please do not try and contact us through the FB page. We will\u00a0 try our best to make sure everyone who contacts us, gets an opportunity to participate,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sign up is now open for the 2024 Poetry Marathon! You can sign up here. The 2024 Poetry Marathon starts at 9 AM ET on Saturday June 15th and will go till 9 AM ET on Sunday June 16th. Those who are interested in doing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145916","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146136,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145916\/revisions\/146136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}