{"id":11494,"date":"2021-05-20T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11494"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:54:01","slug":"calling-all-poets-to-help-reinvigorate-regional-poetry-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/calling-all-poets-to-help-reinvigorate-regional-poetry-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all poets to help reinvigorate regional poetry scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland and Port Stephens Libraries are joining forces in a bid to refresh the Hunter region\u2019s poetry scene by offering a program of workshops and special events to both emerging and more experienced poets across the region.<br \/>\nThe \u2018Stand Up for Poetry\u2019 program, led by Newcastle Libraries, is designed to promote a deeper appreciation of written and spoken word poetry by encouraging poetic expression, written and performance skills development.<br \/>\nThe program will deliver skills development workshops and special events, as well as slam poetry town heats as part of the Australian Poetry Slam.<br \/>\nFour poets, one representing each Local Government Area, will be selected to contribute towards program planning and evaluation, in order to encourage community input into the development of the poetry program.<br \/>\nEach poet will contribute their ideas to develop the program by attending two meetings in June and the \u2018Stand Up For Poetry\u2019 program events will be delivered from July through to October 2021.<br \/>\nApplications are now open and close on Wednesday 26 May 2021.<br \/>\nTo apply, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/library\/experience\/library-projects\/stand-up-for-poetry-poets-wanted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Newcastle Libraries<\/a>\u00a0webpage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland and Port Stephens Libraries are joining forces in a bid to refresh the Hunter region\u2019s poetry scene by offering a program of workshops and special events to both emerging and more experienced poets across the region. The \u2018Stand Up for Poetry\u2019 program, led by Newcastle Libraries, is designed to promote a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/calling-all-poets-to-help-reinvigorate-regional-poetry-scene\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calling all poets to help reinvigorate regional poetry scene&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}