{"id":457,"date":"2007-10-25T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2007-10-25T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T09:24:00","slug":"will-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/will-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 551px; height: 413px;\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.poetrybus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/094.jpg\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.poetrybus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/094.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Poet and artist Will Alexander has become ill with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. He\u2019s spent his life largely off the poetry grid, taking on odd jobs, and has no financial support or, needless to say, health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco organization Poets in Need is coordinating efforts to raise money for him. You can make a (tax-deductible) contribution to them, earmarked for Will, and send it to:<\/div>\n<p>Poets in Need<br \/>PO Box 5411<br \/>Berkeley CA 94705<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For those around New York, there will be a benefit reading for Will at the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\">Bowery Poetry Club<\/span>, Thursday November 1, 6-8 pm. <span style=\"font-size:100%;\">(308 Bowery \/ F to 2nd Ave, or 6 to Bleecker. $10 suggested donation, more if you can). <span style=\"color: rgb(255, 102, 0);\"><\/span><\/span>Friends will gather and read Will\u2019s work as well as poems for Will.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JEROME ROTHENBERG<br \/>TONYA FOSTER<br \/>JOEL KUSZAI<br \/>BILL MARSH<br \/>MARCELLA DURAND<br \/>TOD THILLEMAN<br \/>JOHN HIGH<br \/>RODRIGO TOSCANO<br \/>ELIOT WEINBERGER (and more tba)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet and artist Will Alexander has become ill with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. He\u2019s spent his life largely off the poetry grid, taking on odd jobs, and has no financial support or, needless&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}