{"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&#8217;s 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&#8217;s 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}]}}