{"id":276523,"date":"2018-05-22T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=276523"},"modified":"2018-05-22T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:00:34","slug":"poetry-at-the-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/poetry-at-the-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry at the public library"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_276524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276524\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Joe-Connolly-Book-Donation_JKPL.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-276524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Connolly, seated center, poses with Northern Marianas International School students after teaching them poetry last April 12 at the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library in honor of National Library Week. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Poet Joe Connolly dropped by the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library last April 12 to teach poetry to students from Northern Marianas International School, in honor of National Library Week (April 8-14). <\/p>\n<p>The students enjoyed Connolly\u2019s presentation; his spontaneous \u201cpoetry rapping\u201d was especially enjoyed by all. Connolly also talked about sonnets and haiku, and the differences between the two forms of poetry.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the presentation, Connolly donated a book of haikus to the library, Jumbo Box by Michael Dylan. Connolly also donated Jumbo Box to the Rota Public Library and the Tinian Public Library. <\/p>\n<p>For the latest news and events, visit the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library\u2019s website at www.cnmilib.org. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Joe Connolly dropped by the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library last April 12 to teach poetry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":276524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21276,21277,10700],"class_list":["post-276523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-poet-joe-connolly","tag-rota-public-library","tag-tinian-public-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}