{"id":23550,"date":"2019-08-19T08:09:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=23550"},"modified":"2019-08-19T08:09:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:09:45","slug":"except-for-love-reading-in-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/except-for-love-reading-in-cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Except for Love reading in Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Porter Square Books in Cambridge<\/strong> hosted a reading for <a href=\"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/except-for-love-new-england-poets-inspired-by-donald-hall\/\">Except for Love, New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall<\/a> on Aug. 16 &#8211; there&#8217;s one scheduled for the <strong>Bookstore in Lenox<\/strong> on November 7th. It was great fun to meet several co-contributors, and to hear their various Don Hall stories. I knew that I wasn&#8217;t alone as a benefifiary of his correspondence, but it was fun to hear how important it was for so many fellow poets, too.<\/p>\n<p>After introducing me, <strong>Cynthia Brackett-Vincent<\/strong>, the editor and publisher of the anthology, said that she considered the event a sort of <strong>afterparty<\/strong> for Hall, which is the title of my poem in the book. My pal <strong>Eddie O&#8217;Toole<\/strong> took time away from his <a href=\"https:\/\/berkshireamistad.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Honduras project<\/a>, for an old-school open-ended road trip; here is his cellphone videography of my four minute segment:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBTKoJgNJnA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porter Square Books in Cambridge hosted a reading for Except for Love, New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall on Aug. 16 &#8211; there&#8217;s one scheduled for the Bookstore in Lenox on November 7th. It was great fun to meet several co-contributors, and to hear their various Don Hall stories. I knew that I wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23553,"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-23550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550","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=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}