{"id":10930,"date":"2013-10-01T09:34:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2013-10-01T09:34:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:34:51","slug":"tonight-at-poets-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/tonight-at-poets-house-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight at Poets House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/almutanabbi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10931 lazyload\" alt=\"almutanabbi\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/almutanabbi.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/249;\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ll be there:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">Coming up at Poets House<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Tuesday, October 1, 7:00pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/poetshouse.createsend1.com\/t\/y-l-ttuddhy-uklulyddu-y\/\"><b><i>Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here<\/i> Reading &amp; Panel Discussion<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response to the 2007 destruction of Baghdad\u2019s centuries-old literary district, poet and bookseller <b>Beau Beausoleil<\/b> founded the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition, which has evolved over five years to include an international traveling exhibit composed of artists\u2019 books and broadsides, <a href=\"http:\/\/poetshouse.createsend1.com\/t\/y-l-ttuddhy-uklulyddu-j\/\"><b>a selection of which are on display at Poets House through October 5<\/b><\/a>. Beausoleil is joined by poet and scholar <b>Ammiel Alcalay<\/b>, Iraqi-American poet <b>Alise Alousi<\/b>, and journalist <b>M. Lynx Qualey<\/b> to reflect on this landmark project and the important role of poetics in Middle Eastern culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Cosponsored by the Center for Book Arts and City Lore. Presented in conjunction with <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/poetshouse.createsend1.com\/t\/y-l-ttuddhy-uklulyddu-t\/\"><b>Poetic Voices of the Muslim World<\/b><\/a><i>, which is funded by the Bridging Cultures Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poets House, 10 River Terrace (at Murray Street), New York, NY 10282<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Admission: $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House, City Lore and Center for the Book Arts members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be there: Coming up at Poets House Tuesday, October 1, 7:00pm Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Reading &amp; Panel Discussion In response to the 2007 destruction of Baghdad\u2019s centuries-old literary district, poet and bookseller&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012,11,24],"tags":[1430,148,1431,1432],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-spring","category-arab-culture","category-books","tag-alise-alousi","tag-ammiel-alcalay","tag-beau-beausoleil","tag-m-lynx-qualey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10935,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions\/10935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}