{"id":2389,"date":"2012-04-01T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/01\/in-celebration-of-national-poetry-month-16th\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:53:53","slug":"in-celebration-of-national-poetry-month-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/01\/in-celebration-of-national-poetry-month-16th\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2389 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/01\/in-celebration-of-national-poetry-month-16th\/attachment\/2390\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m1t67qQj8F1r3qmd1o1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In celebration of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/41\" target=\"_blank\">National Poetry Month<\/a><\/strong>, <em>16th Street<\/em> will feature at least one poem every day (except Saturday) throughout the month of April.\u00a0Some of these poems are well-known and beloved artistic testaments to Jewish experience. Others are more obscure literary treasures that were discovered in the partners&rsquo; collections. These poems have been living in draft books and journals, in the published pages of forgotten literary magazines, in letters to loved ones and in the loose sheets of human history, stuck in folders between newspaper clippings, secured to the inside of travel journals, carried in wallets, written on postcards, preserved as souvenirs of personal experience. They demand our attention to their beauty, to their truth, and, perhaps most of all, to the rich views they present of their time, their place and their poet. Artifacts of individual experience are the lifeblood of the partners\u2019 collections. It is our pleasure and responsibility to present these poems to you.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the collections we searched, a poet pasted an article about poetry onto the first page of his journal and underlined the sentences that explained: The poets\u2019 business is not with his present time, but with a future one. We owe thanks to the archivists, librarians, staff-people and researchers whose hard work will allow all of us in \u201cthe future time\u201d to inhabit these poems and their worlds\u2014our legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of National Poetry Month, 16th Street will feature at least one poem every day (except Saturday) throughout the month of April.\u00a0Some of these poems are well-known and beloved artistic testaments to Jewish experience. Others are more obscure literary treasures that were discovered in the partners&rsquo; collections. These poems have been living in draft books and journals, in the published pages of forgotten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[962],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-national-poetry-month","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}