{"id":67995,"date":"2019-04-01T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=67995"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:28:00","slug":"poem-in-your-pocket-day-april-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2019\/04\/01\/poem-in-your-pocket-day-april-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem In Your Pocket Day: April 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5accde53145d9.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5accde53145d9.image_.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5accde53145d9.image_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Poem in Your Pocket Day 2019 is on April 18&nbsp;<\/strong>and is&nbsp;part of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/national-poetry-month\/about-celebration\">National Poetry Month<\/a>. On this day, select a poem, carry it with you, and share it with others at schools, bookstores, libraries, parks, workplaces, street corners, and on social media using the hashtag #pocketpoem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poem in Your Pocket Day was initiated in April 2002 by the Office of the Mayor in New York City, in partnership with the city\u2019s Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education. In 2008, the Academy of American Poets took the initiative to all fifty United States, encouraging individuals around the country to participate. In 2016, the League of Canadian Poets extended Poem in Your Pocket Day to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A PDF including instructions, history, and a selection of poems (including work by Ada Lim\u00f3n, W.S. Merwin, Ocean Vuong, and U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith) is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/sites\/default\/files\/poeminyourpocketday2019.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem in Your Pocket Day 2019 is on April 18&nbsp;and is&nbsp;part of&nbsp;National Poetry Month. On this day, select a poem, carry it with you, and share it with others at schools, bookstores, libraries, parks, workplaces, street corners, and on social media using the hashtag #pocketpoem.&nbsp; Poem in Your Pocket Day was initiated in April 2002 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,60,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}