{"id":20001,"date":"2013-04-25T16:46:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T21:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=20001"},"modified":"2013-04-25T21:32:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T02:32:02","slug":"celebrating-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2013\/04\/celebrating-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/words.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20002\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"words\" src=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/words-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>April is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/41\">National Poetry Month<\/a>, which may be Marquette University President <a href=\"http:\/\/marquette.edu\/alumni\/newsletter\/2010-13\/apr12.shtml\">Scott R. Pilarz, S.J.\u2019s<\/a> favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marquette.edu\/library\/news\/2013\/poetrymonth.shtml\">month<\/a>.\u00a0 And for good reason.\u00a0 Poetry can sometimes say what we can\u2019t; it can touch our hearts and our souls with its inspiration, its longing, its joy, and its sadness.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, on this blog, several of us wrote about poetry, <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2012\/04\/11\/spring-and-fall\/\">sharing our favorites<\/a>, composing new poetry in both <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2012\/04\/10\/haiku-anyone\/\">traditional<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2012\/04\/18\/the-happy-lawyer-2\/\">different<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2012\/04\/19\/more-bookspine-poetry\/\">ways<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2012\/04\/13\/poetry-about-the-law-3\/\">exploring poetry in and about the law<\/a>.\u00a0 As student Gabe Houghton noted this <a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2012\/01\/07\/poetry-in-the-law\/\">post<\/a>, there are some judges who compose opinions in verse.<\/p>\n<p>As April closes, I just wanted to remind everyone that poetry should be celebrated all months and remember that there are many kinds of poetry.\u00a0 Songs can be considered poetry set to music. There are also <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poetry_slam\">poetry slams<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0My favorite in this last genre is <a href=\"http:\/\/taylormali.com\/\">Taylor Mali<\/a>, teacher and poet.\u00a0 You can see him perform his poem \u201cTotally like whatever, you know?\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SCNIBV87wV4\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a nice reminder for those of us who love language that what we say, as well as how we say it, matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is National Poetry Month, which may be Marquette University President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J.\u2019s favorite month.\u00a0 And for good reason.\u00a0 Poetry can sometimes say what we can\u2019t; it can touch our hearts and our souls with its inspiration, its longing, its joy, and its sadness. Last year, on this blog, several of us wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,42,76,44,37,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-practice","category-legal-writing","category-media-journalism","category-political-processes-rhetoric","category-popular-culture-and-law","category-public","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}