{"id":215,"date":"2019-05-28T08:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/berkshires-news\/poetry\/berkshires-life-in-poetry-american-too\/"},"modified":"2019-05-28T08:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:16:01","slug":"berkshires-life-in-poetry-american-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshires-life-in-poetry-american-too\/","title":{"rendered":"American Life in Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cat Moving Kittens<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"poetry\">We must have known,<br \/>\nEven as we reached<br \/>\nDown to touch them<br \/>\nWhere we&#8217;d found them<\/p>\n<p>Shut-eyed and trembling<br \/>\nUnder a straw bale<br \/>\nIn the haymow, that<br \/>\nShe would move them<\/p>\n<p>That night under cover<br \/>\nOf darkness, and that<br \/>\nBy finding them<br \/>\nWe were making certain<\/p>\n<p>We wouldn&#8217;t see them again<br \/>\nUntil we saw them<br \/>\nCrouching under the pickup<br \/>\nLike sullen teens, having gone<\/p>\n<p>As wild by then as they&#8217;d gone<br \/>\nStill in her mouth that night<br \/>\nShe made a decision<br \/>\nAny mother might make<\/p>\n<p>Upon guessing the intentions<br \/>\nOf the state: to go and to<br \/>\nGo now, taking everything<br \/>\nYou love between your teeth.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Austin Smith, who lives in rural Illinois and is an acute observer of the world at hand.This poem is from his book Flyover Country, published by Princeton University Press.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>About poetry on BerkshireLinks<\/h2>\n<p>Adding a poetry category to BerkshireLinks.com comports with what we had in mind when we started our first web magazine, Berkshire Spectrum, way back in 1996. Today, one could expect to generate some interest by publishing poetry on a website that has an audience of thousands of persons interested in the Berkshires arts and entertainment scene.<\/p>\n<p>The key feature, initially at least, will be the inclusion of the American Life in Poetry project, which makes available to us and practically anybody else, as indicated here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanlifeinpoetry.org\/\">American Life in Poetry<\/a> is a free weekly column for newspapers and online publications featuring a poem by a contemporary American poet and a brief introduction to the poem by Ted Kooser. The sole mission of this project is to promote poetry, and we believe we can add value for newspaper and online readers by doing so. There are no costs or obligations for reprinting the columns, though we do require that the text of the column be reproduced without alteration, along with the complete copyright, permissions and credit information, exactly as supplied with each column.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry from the Berkshires and elsewhere in America, including the American Life in Poetry project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}