{"id":222762,"date":"2010-01-24T16:10:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2010-01-24T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:10:34","slug":"poetry-in-motion-cast-your-ballot-and-get-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/222762","title":{"rendered":"Poetry in Motion: Cast your ballot and get on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;We have some exciting poetry news!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6419\" title=\"T.S. Eliot, painted by Wyndham Lewis, 1938. Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wyndham_lewis02-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"T.S. Eliot, painted by Wyndham Lewis, 1938. Wikimedia Commons\" hspace=\"7\" width=\"186\" align=\"right\" \/>Press releases starting like that don&#8217;t hit the central clearing desk at Art Scatter World Headquarters very often, so of course we dropped everything else and immediately investigated. We&#8217;ve been waiting for some exciting poetry news ever since the cat lost his hat.<\/p>\n<p>What is this big news? <strong>Poetry in Motion<\/strong> is back on track. Regular readers may recall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/general\/poem-for-city-travelers-reading-and-writing-on-the-bus\/\">Mrs. Scatter&#8217;s lamentation<\/a> last June over its disappearance, and her call for commuters to take matters poetical into their own hands. The program behind those printed poems posted above the seats on Tri-Met buses and trains, which is administered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literary-arts.org\/\">Literary Arts<\/a>, has been on hiatus for financial reasons.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s recruited new sponsors and is ready to rhyme (or not) again. What&#8217;s more, you can vote on which poems out of thousands of possibilities you&#8217;d like to share your ride with: <a href=\"http:\/\/survey.constantcontact.com\/survey\/a07e2ocr4lig44i22hy\/a01lbg4u8onvo\/questions\">Vote here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps you&#8217;d like to celebrate<\/strong> by writing your own poem about reading poetry on the bus. Here are a few key words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bus. Muss. Truss. Fuss. Cuss. Deciduous.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now all you have to do is fill in the blanks. <strong>Happy versing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured: T.S. Eliot, painted by his friend Wyndham Lewis in 1938. Lighten up, Tom! You could be rolling on the bus! Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have some exciting poetry news!&#8221; Press releases starting like that don&#8217;t hit the central clearing desk at Art Scatter World Headquarters very often, so of course we dropped everything else and immediately investigated. We&#8217;ve been waiting for some exciting poetry news ever since the cat lost his hat. What is this big news? Poetry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}