{"id":61093,"date":"2020-06-26T21:47:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61093"},"modified":"2020-06-26T21:47:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:47:20","slug":"writing-through-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/writing-through-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Through the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ive-Got-Blues-Looking-Justice\/dp\/1936923343\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=%22Looking+for+Justice+in+a+Red+State%22&amp;qid=1593222168&amp;sr=8-1\">I&#8217;ve Got the Blues: Looking for Justice in a Red State<\/a>, came out in early March. It&#8217;s a collection of my essays and poems published in The Oklahoma Observer. Almost as soon as the book arrived, I started cancelling plans to speak and sign.  I also started rescheduling the poets invited to the monthly poetry reading I host.<\/p>\n<p>A writer should be able to self-isolate, right? I have a nice husband and a loyal dog, but I&#8217;ve missed the gathering of poets and the art students who come to my husband&#8217;s studio.<\/p>\n<p>Action has kept be going through the pandemic&#8211;a garden, canning, walking&#8211;but I&#8217;ve had trouble quieting my mind and even more trouble sitting to write. I&#8217;ve met deadlines, but I&#8217;ve written little poetry. I need this marathon to get back to my daily writing practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharonedgemartin.com\">sharonedgemartin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I&#039;ve Got the Blues: Looking for Justice in a Red State\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_doFk5ZebCie2EX&#038;asin=1936923343&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you were wondering, the painting on the cover is my husband&#8217;s work. Not only is he a nice guy, but he&#8217;s talented, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new book, I&#8217;ve Got the Blues: Looking for Justice in a Red State, came out in early March. It&#8217;s a collection of my essays and poems published in The Oklahoma Observer. Almost as soon as the book arrived, I started cancelling plans to speak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61093","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61112,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61093\/revisions\/61112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}