{"id":2538,"date":"2013-04-15T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2013-04-15T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:12:09","slug":"national-poetry-month-in-vancouver-keeps-us-on-our-toes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL POETRY MONTH in Vancouver keeps us on our toes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2544\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogin.g?blogspotURL=http:\/\/tabithamontgomery.blogspot.ca\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2544\" title=\"ForceFieldLaunch1A\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ForceFieldLaunch1A-182x300.jpg?resize=182%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Tabitha Montgomery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Whew! Recovering from an action packed weekend; two launches for two anthologies. My poem <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=2qM0cNfSIVw\">Appelton<\/a><\/em> was featured in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/ooligan.pdx.edu\/poetry\/alive-at-the-center\/\">Alive at the Cente<\/a>r <\/em>along with other Cascadian poets from Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. It&#8217;s a farcical poem, people laughed and we all revelled in the convivial atmosphere at the Rhizome Cafe. Saturday, I read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Three-Blocks-Wonderland-Heather-Susan\/dp\/1897430477\">Three Blocks West of Wonderland<\/a><\/em> at the launch for\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Force-Field-Women-British-Columbia\/dp\/1896949258\">FORCE Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia <\/a><\/em>at the Vancouver Public Library, followed by a party at the Railway Club, which turned out to be a fantastic gathering of the tribe.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it is National Poetry Month. I will be doing another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/154772941357065\/?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\">reading for <em>FORCE Field <\/em>on the 26th at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts<\/a> in Burnaby. Couch surfing is a little rough but it does provide a wonderful opportunity to visit, something I rarely have time to do when I cross the moat (Howe Sound) and go into Vancouver with a long list of errands, meetings, appointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew! Recovering from an action packed weekend; two launches for two anthologies. My poem Appelton was featured in\u00a0Alive at the Center along with other Cascadian poets from Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. It&#8217;s a farcical poem, people laughed and we all revelled in the convivial atmosphere at the Rhizome Cafe. Saturday, I read Three Blocks West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[23,130,149,208,233,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}