{"id":1359,"date":"2017-01-24T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2017-01-24T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:54:56","slug":"rise-up-a-poetry-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2017\/01\/24\/rise-up-a-poetry-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise Up, a Poetry Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided, the day of the inauguration, that I felt compelled to do more than just rant at a blank screen. I was reminded by a colleague that circumstances like these produce some of our greatest art&#8230; And so I thought why not add art, instead of just empty rage?<\/p>\n<p>I make no pretense that this is &#8220;great art.&#8221; That said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Every day, starting with the first full day of the Trump Administration, I\u2019m going to write a new poem. These will be poems about suffering, resistance, rebellion, rage, grief, justice, hope, and despair\u2026 all the things that this horror-show of American politics makes me feel.<\/p>\n<p>They are most likely terrible, but they are genuine. I hope that as I go, they will get better. Words have always been my weapons, my armor, and my salvation, so I am turning back to them now, hoping that there can be something good to come out of so much fear and disgust.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I will share them here. Most of the time, I won&#8217;t. I will keep a notebook, adding one more every day, until things get better or I run out of pages. I invite anyone else who would like <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/rise-up-a-poetry-project\/\">to contribute words or thoughts of their own<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided, the day of the inauguration, that I felt compelled to do more than just rant at a blank screen. I was reminded by a colleague that circumstances like these produce some of our greatest art&#8230; And so I &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2017\/01\/24\/rise-up-a-poetry-project\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XN03-lV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}