{"id":214,"date":"2012-04-26T21:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2012-04-26T21:07:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T21:07:16","slug":"marie-ponsot-awarded-the-first-n-y-c-literary-honor-for-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/marie-ponsot-awarded-the-first-n-y-c-literary-honor-for-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Ponsot Awarded the First N.Y.C. Literary Honor for Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_222\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"wp-image-222  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Marie-May-08-2-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"196\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marie Ponsot (photo by Scott Hightower)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Marie Ponsot, recipient of the first N.Y.C. Literary Honor for Poetry! The work of this extraordinary poet and teacher has been vital to many.\u00a0<a title=\"Week After Pulitzer Controversy, City Gives Writers a New Award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/26\/nyregion\/week-after-pulitzer-controversy-city-gives-writers-a-new-award.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0article announcing the awards. Find poems by Ponsot\u00a0<a title=\"The Academy of American Poets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/99\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"The Poetry Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/marie-ponsot\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and in her\u00a0<a title=\"Random House\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/24238\/marie-ponsot\" target=\"_blank\">books<\/a>\u00a0(also\u00a0<a title=\"Library of Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/catalog.loc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). The poet\u00a0talks and reads\u00a0<a title=\"Poet Marie Ponsot Celebrating Life at 88\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/entertainment\/july-dec09\/artbeat_11-30.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Poetry in Difficult Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/lopate\/2011\/sep\/09\/poetry-difficult-times\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+%24%7Blopate%7D+%28%24%7BLeonard+Lopate%7D%29&amp;utm_content=%24%7Bfeed%7D\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o5n43xlCZYI\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0(sound recordings) and\u00a0<a title=\"A Conversation: Marie Ponsot &amp; L. B. Thompson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org\/psa\/poetry\/crossroads\/interviews\/2009-09-04_3\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"In Conversation: Marie Ponsot with Sally Dawidoff and Jean Gallagher\" href=\"http:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2008\/10\/books\/marie-ponsot-with-sally-dawidoff-and-jean-gallagher\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0(conversations\u00a0in print).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Congratulations to Marie Ponsot, recipient of the first N.Y.C. Literary Honor for Poetry! The work of this extraordinary poet and teacher has been vital to many.\u00a0Here\u00a0is the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0article announcing the awards. Find poems by Ponsot\u00a0here\u00a0and\u00a0here\u00a0and in her\u00a0books\u00a0(also\u00a0here). The poet\u00a0talks and reads\u00a0here,\u00a0here, and\u00a0here\u00a0(sound recordings) and\u00a0here\u00a0and\u00a0here\u00a0(conversations\u00a0in print).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theurbanrange.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}