{"id":1242,"date":"2022-06-09T19:35:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T23:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2022-06-11T17:57:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:57:52","slug":"poetry-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last month, I hosted a poetry workshop with participants of the New Horizons program in Ottawa, funded by the government of Canada. After an overview of basic poetry structure and an introduction of a few Jewish Canadian poets, the group hunkered down to compose a poem of its own. <br>Inspired by the recent massive storm that hit the city, the new poets brainstormed a word cloud (fully in the theme&rsquo;s spirit), then assembled their poem, which you can read below.<br>Mazel Tov to Marcia, Jenny, Marcella, Shirli and Merle for their contribution to Canadian Jewish poetry!<br><br><strong>Victoria\u2019s Fury<\/strong><br><br>Storm<br><br>thunderous heaven opens up<br>winds blow horizontal,<br>rattling rain<br><br>trees destroyed<br>loss of environment<br>power of nature<br>blows me away <br><br>like election signs in the wind<br>roots disconnected<br>lines disconnected<br>isolation<br>we are powerless<br>left at the mercy of nature<br><br>loss of voice<br>telephones down cannot carry it<br>not in charge <br>how to recharge?<br><br>cooking it up<br>before freezers thaw<br>sharing laundry, sharing showers, sharing shelter<br><br>sustenance, resilience, gratitude<br><br>renewal of friendships,<br>showering love on neighbours<br>to bring new growth<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I hosted a poetry workshop with participants of the New Horizons program in Ottawa, funded by the government of Canada. After an overview of basic poetry structure and an introduction of a few Jewish Canadian poets, the group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[628,384,627,385,629,12],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jewish","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-workshop","tag-writing","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}