{"id":19895,"date":"2023-03-31T12:10:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/april-is-national-poetry-month\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:10:19","slug":"april-is-national-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/april-is-national-poetry-month\/","title":{"rendered":"April is National Poetry Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>In celebration of National Poetry Month, the entire campus community is invited to join the Campus Poetry Project sponsored by the English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department.<\/h4>\n<p>Throughout April, be on the lookout for poetry postings in the<em>\u00a0Campus Chronicle <\/em>and on digital monitors across campus, as well as our cardboard poet cutouts and poetry lawn signs. Take a selfie with your favorite poet!<\/p>\n<p>This year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/academy-american-poets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>American Academy of Poets<\/em><\/a> is highlighting this verse: &#8220;we were all made for something&#8221; (Ada Limon). That is why we decided to focus on poems about work this year. We&#8217;ll include songs and lyrics about work, too! (Below is the official 2023 National Poetry Month poster from the <em>American Academy of Poets<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-148354 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image-3-29-23-at-2.58-PM-450x574.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"574\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/national-poetry-month\/30-ways-celebrate-national-poetry-month-classroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please click here<\/a> for a link to 30 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month in the Classroom (or anywhere).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Poem<br \/>\n<\/strong>(Shared one day early.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cFind Work\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>by Rhina P. Espaillat<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI tie my Hat\u2014I crease my Shawl\u2014<br \/>\nLife&#8217;s little duties do\u2014precisely<br \/>\nAs the very least<br \/>\nWere infinite\u2014to me\u2014<br \/>\n\u2014Emily Dickinson, #443<\/p>\n<p>My mother\u2019s mother, widowed very young<\/p>\n<p>of her first love, and of that love\u2019s first fruit,<\/p>\n<p>moved through her father\u2019s farm, her country tongue<\/p>\n<p>and country heart anaesthetized and mute<\/p>\n<p>with labor. So her kind was taught to do\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFind work,\u201d she would reply to every grief\u2014<\/p>\n<p>and her one dictum, whether false or true,<\/p>\n<p>tolled heavy with her passionate belief.<\/p>\n<p>Widowed again, with children, in her prime,<\/p>\n<p>she spoke so little it was hard to bear<\/p>\n<p>so much composure, such a truce with time<\/p>\n<p>spent in the lifelong practice of despair.<\/p>\n<p>But I recall her floors, scrubbed white as bone,<\/p>\n<p>her dishes, and how painfully they shone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryoutloud.org\/poem\/find-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poetry<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148397 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhina-Espaillat-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rhina Polonia Espaillat<\/strong> was born in 1932\u00a0 in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. After Espaillat\u2019s father opposed the regime, her family was exiled to the United States, where they settled in New York City. She began writing poetry as a young girl, first in Spanish, then English. She has published eleven collections of poetry in both languages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:10:19 +0000 by\u00a0j.austin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In celebration of National Poetry Month, the entire campus community is invited to join the Campus Poetry Project sponsored&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}