{"id":86272,"date":"2021-06-01T08:50:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=86272"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:43:13","slug":"sign-up-for-the-2021-poetry-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/sign-up-for-the-2021-poetry-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign Up for the 2021 Poetry Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86273\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-Post11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-Post11.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-Post11-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-Post11-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-Post11-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sign up is now open for the 2021 Poetry Marathon! You can sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd7HlQt8vDFBSFtHTtNMtRBbmuuefEGFPdlre_v_shusXMmfw\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2021 Poetry Marathon starts at 9 AM ET on Saturday June 26th and will go till 9 AM ET on Sunday the 27th of June.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are interested in doing a half marathon start at 9 AM ET on June 26th and go till 9 PM on the 26th. Or they can start at 9 PM ET on the 26th and continue to 9 AM on the 27th, which works better for some time zones.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/converter.html\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more go <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up go <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd7HlQt8vDFBSFtHTtNMtRBbmuuefEGFPdlre_v_shusXMmfw\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in participating please sign up by June 19th! We will get back to applicants on a rolling basis. Most people who apply will be accepted. If you have not heard from us a week after applying please send us an email at poets@poetrymarathon.com. Please do not try and contact us through the FB page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up is now open for the 2021 Poetry Marathon! You can sign up here. The 2021 Poetry Marathon starts at 9 AM ET on Saturday June 26th and will go till 9 AM ET on Sunday the 27th of June. Those who are interested&#8230;<\/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-86272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86272","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=86272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86378,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86272\/revisions\/86378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}