{"id":19983,"date":"2023-04-14T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/national-poetry-month-celebration-continues-with-a-poem-by-jose-olivarez\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:10:21","slug":"national-poetry-month-celebration-continues-with-a-poem-by-jose-olivarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/national-poetry-month-celebration-continues-with-a-poem-by-jose-olivarez\/","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Month celebration continues with a poem by Jos\u00e9 Olivarez"},"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>Also,\u00a0<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\" \/><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<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare)&#8221;<br \/>\nby Jos\u00e9 Olivarez<\/p>\n<p>hands in a sink<br \/>\ndown to my elbows<br \/>\nclogged with gray water<br \/>\nwet rice soggy cornflakes<br \/>\nin the other room<br \/>\nyou read Twitter &amp; text<br \/>\nme your favorite jokes<\/p>\n<p>so this is love<br \/>\ni ask the fistful of nasty gunk<br \/>\nin my hand like<br \/>\nit\u2019s a Shakespearean skull<br \/>\n&amp; the skull says<br \/>\nthere is nothing either good or bad<br \/>\nbut loving makes it so<\/p>\n<h6>Excerpted from &#8220;Promises Of Gold&#8221; by Jos\u00e9 Olivarez. Published by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright \u00a9 2023 by Jos\u00e9 Olivarez. Translation Copyright \u00a9 2023 by David Ruano Gonz\u00e1lez. All rights reserved.<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148823 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jose-Olivarez-photo-credit-Mercedes-Zapata-297x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/>Jos\u00e9 Olivarez<\/strong> is a poet, educator, and performer from Chicago. He is the winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize, and a recipient of fellowships from Poets House, the Bronx Council on the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, A cohost of the podcast, The Poetry Gods, Olivarez lives in New York City. (Photo credit: Mercedes Zapata)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:10:21 +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-19983","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\/19983","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=19983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}