{"id":2915,"date":"2013-02-21T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T04:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2013-02-24T19:17:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T02:17:37","slug":"like-smoke-touching-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/like-smoke-touching-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"like smoke touching everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 21, 7:00pm<br \/>\nBlessing the Boats: A Tribute to Lucille Clifton<br \/>\nLOCATION: CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium, 365 5th Avenue<\/p>\n<p>Readings by Sherman Alexie, Tina Chang, Toi Derricotte, Michael Dickman, Timothy Donnelly, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nick Flynn, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Marie Howe, Sharon Olds and Tracy K. Smith, with musical interludes by mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoyed this reading, although overwhelmed by the decorousness of poetry audiences. The little audible breaths, smatterings of applause, the implacable reverence&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The high point was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corneliuseady.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cornelius Eady<\/a>&#8216;s reading of &#8220;some dreams hang in the air&#8221; in a low pulsing breathy voice: <\/p>\n<p>Some Dreams Hang in the Air<\/p>\n<p>some dreams hang in the air<br \/>\nlike smoke. some dreams<br \/>\nget all in your clothes and<br \/>\nbe wearing them more than you do and<br \/>\nyou be half the time trying to<br \/>\nhold them and half the time<br \/>\ntrying to wave them away.<br \/>\ntheir smell be all over you and<br \/>\nthey get to your eyes and<br \/>\nyou cry. the fire be gone<br \/>\nand the wood but some dreams<br \/>\nhang in the air like smoke<br \/>\ntouching everything.<\/p>\n<p>Lucille Clifton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 21, 7:00pm Blessing the Boats: A Tribute to Lucille Clifton LOCATION: CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium, 365 5th Avenue Readings by Sherman Alexie, Tina Chang, Toi Derricotte, Michael Dickman, Timothy Donnelly, Cornelius&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}