{"id":2076,"date":"2007-02-02T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T17:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/lie_drivers_see_red_the_mets_wear_the_blue_queens_is_searching_for_its_next_poet_laureate_and_that_scribe_could_be_you.html"},"modified":"2007-02-02T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T17:58:20","slug":"lie_drivers_see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/lie_drivers_see.html","title":{"rendered":"LIE Drivers See Red, The Mets Wear The Blue, Queens Is Searching For Its Next Poet Laureate And That Scribe Could Be You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens is looking for <a href=\"http:\/\/ny.metro.us\/metro\/local\/article\/Poetry_fit_for_a_Queensborough\/6788.html\">its next poet laureate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We are looking for a talented and energetic individual whose writing will inspire young and old,&#8221; Borough President Helen Marshall said at a press conference yesterday. Plus, &#8220;He or she must be proud to live here in Queens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The position is an honorary, three-year appointment created in 1997 by the Friends of the Queens College Library. It gained mass media attention in 2004 when Run-DMC&#8217;s Joseph &#8220;Rev. Run&#8221; Simmons unsuccessfully applied for the position. More than 78 poets applied that year. More are expected in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Queens is not a stereotypically poetic place, admitted Marie-Lise Gazarian Gautier of St. John&#8217;s University. &#8220;But poetry is all around,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If you look, there is beauty everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And having a poet laureate is vital to cultural life in Queens, says James Muyskens, president of Queens College.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A social scientist may be able to describe what it is like to live here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But a poet can tell us how it feels to be alive in Queens.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens is looking for its next poet laureate: &#8220;We are looking for a talented and energetic individual whose writing will inspire young and old,&#8221; Borough President Helen Marshall said at a press conference yesterday. Plus, &#8220;He or she must be proud to live here in Queens.&#8221; The position is an honorary, three-year appointment created in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}