{"id":764,"date":"2024-05-16T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=764"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:31:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:31:47","slug":"open-mic-for-poetry","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/events\/open-mic-for-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Mic for Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Hello Friends, Members of the BC Chapter of the CAA<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Get ready for our next big event: Open Mic for Poetry!<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Wednesday, May 22nd, 7 PM, on ZOOM<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By poetry, we mean a short work which features rhythmic use of words to create an image or an emotion, and may include: rhymed verse, free verse, haiku, sonnet, elegy, and other structures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Whether you write poetry or not, whether you like poetry or not, join us to hear what our poet-colleagues write.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-765\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/May-Open-Mic-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"658\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/May-Open-Mic-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/May-Open-Mic-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/May-Open-Mic-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/May-Open-Mic-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/May-Open-Mic-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/May-Open-Mic-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>To sign up and listen,<\/b>\u00a0click <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZcpcO2oqT4oGtEncdZEkz0zjrU8n2jpOcN0\">HERE<\/a>, and the\u00a0\u00a0ZOOM link will be sent to you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>To register as a reader of poetry<\/b>, email us at bcbranch@canadianauthors.org.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The rules for the readers are: Very briefly, introduce yourself and tell us what kind of poetry you write, and what poet you admire. If you have a favourite poetry book, hold it to the screen for 3 seconds. This will give us the context of your work. Then read your poetry \u2013 total 5 to 6 minutes per reader.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We look forward to getting to know your poetic work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Friends, Members of the BC Chapter of the CAA Get ready for our next big event: Open Mic for Poetry! Wednesday, May 22nd, 7 PM, on ZOOM By poetry, we mean a short work which features rhythmic use of words to create an image or an emotion, and may include: rhymed verse, free verse,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"mec_speaker":[],"class_list":["post-764","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"mec_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_speaker?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}