{"id":761,"date":"2013-04-29T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=761"},"modified":"2013-05-21T22:11:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T02:11:34","slug":"poetry-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April is national poetry month and, this year, I am fortunate enough to have a poem featured in a new poetry anthology called\u00a0<em>Love Poems Deconstructed<\/em>. It features about 20 poets from the Writers Unite online community.<\/p>\n<p>The project, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimwoodswrites.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Woods<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielgadfly.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Gadfly<\/a>, is described thusly:<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/WritersUniteGroup\/\">Writers Unite<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is an online writer\u2019s group that conducts a weekly Twitter chat using the hashtag\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23writestuff&amp;src=typd\">#writestuff<\/a><\/strong>. Recently, we decided that we wanted to release a small publication, and this free collection of poetry is the result.<\/p>\n<p><em>Love Poems Deconstructed<\/em>\u00a0is a collection of poems about the variety of relationships our lives are filled with. It contains about romantic love, of course, but it also explores other kinds of love \u2014 the love of a tired mother conducting the day-to-day tasks necessary to care for her children, the love of a frightened grandmother trying to protect her grandkids from a threatening world, the admiration of a young person for the skilled artisan hands of an elder. It addresses love that is blissful and love that hurts.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>My poem \u00ab\u00a0His Hands\u00a0\u00bb features the young person and the artisan mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p>You can download and read the\u00a0<strong>free<\/strong>\u00a0poetry ebook\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielgadfly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LovePoemsDeconstructed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is national poetry month and, this year, I am fortunate enough to have a poem featured in a new poetry anthology called\u00a0Love Poems Deconstructed. It features about 20 poets from the Writers Unite online community. The project, led by<\/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":[13,389,390,388,386,384,383,385,387],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-m-matte","tag-gabriel-gadfly","tag-his-hands","tag-jim-woods","tag-love-poems-deconstructed","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-writers-unite","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","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=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}