{"id":20001,"date":"2023-04-17T12:14:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T16:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/national-poetry-month-celebration-continues-with-a-poem-by-seamus-heaney\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T12:14:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T16:14:27","slug":"national-poetry-month-celebration-continues-with-a-poem-by-seamus-heaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/national-poetry-month-celebration-continues-with-a-poem-by-seamus-heaney\/","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Month celebration continues with a poem by Seamus Heaney"},"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;Scaffolding&#8221;<br \/>\nby Seamus Heaney<br \/>\n(1939-2013)<\/p>\n<p>Masons, when they start upon a building,<br \/>\nAre careful to test out the scaffolding;<\/p>\n<p>Make sure that planks won\u2019t slip at busy points,<br \/>\nSecure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.<\/p>\n<p>And yet all this comes down when the job\u2019s done<br \/>\nShowing off walls of sure and solid stone.<\/p>\n<p>So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be<br \/>\nOld bridges breaking between you and me<\/p>\n<p>Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall<br \/>\nConfident that we have built our wall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>&#8220;Scaffolding&#8221; from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966\u20131996\u200b by Seamus Heaney. Copyright \u00a9 1998 by Seamus Heaney.<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148847 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Seamus-Heaney-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Born in Ireland in 1939, <strong>Seamus Heaney<\/strong> was the author of numerous poetry collections, including Human Chain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010). He split his time between Dublin, Ireland, and Boston, where he taught at Harvard University for many years. Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:14:27 +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-20001","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\/20001","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=20001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}