{"id":21416,"date":"2023-01-25T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T14:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=21416"},"modified":"2023-01-26T15:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:19:29","slug":"favorite-poem-and-or-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/01\/25\/favorite-poem-and-or-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite poem and\/or poet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aw012523-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aw012523-2.jpg\" alt=\"Favorite poem and\/or poet?\" class=\"wp-image-21414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aw012523-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aw012523-2-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Favorite poem and\/or poet?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, as you might imagine, Robert Frost&#8217;s &#8220;Mending Wall&#8221; is close to my heart. I posted a list of some of my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/10\/06\/whats-your-favorite-poem\/\" target=\"_blank\">library helper&#8217;s favorite poems in October,<\/a> but here&#8217;s a new list of of more favorites by all my BC Libraries helpers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eve L. Ewing<br>&#8220;Legacies&#8221; by Nikki Giovanni<br>Good Bones by Maggie Smith<br>when faces called flowers float out of the ground &#8211; e. e. cummings<br>Wild Geese &#8211; Mary Oliver<br>Star of the Nativity by Joseph Brodsky<br>Anything written by Pablo Neruda<br>Wendell Berry<br>Horace, Odes I:5. One of the best breakup poems ever.<br>Two-Headed Calf by Laura Gilpin<br>&#8220;Good Bones,&#8221; by Maggie Smith<br>Memorial, by Alice Oswald<br>&#8220;Towns in Colour&#8221; by Amy Lowell<br>Lo Fatal &#8211; Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo<br>Stephen Sturgeon is my fav poet &amp; \u201cViolet Swords\u201d is a good poem by him.<br>A Julia de Burgos (To Julia de Burgos) by Julia de Burgos<br>Robert Burns<br>Mary Oliver<br>Kate Baer<br>Arthur Clough<br>The Summer Day, Mary Oliver<br>The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as you might imagine, Robert Frost&#8217;s &#8220;Mending Wall&#8221; is close to my heart. I posted a list of some of my library helper&#8217;s favorite poems in October, but here&#8217;s a new list of of more favorites by all my BC Libraries helpers: Eve L. Ewing&#8220;Legacies&#8221; by Nikki GiovanniGood Bones by Maggie Smithwhen faces called &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/01\/25\/favorite-poem-and-or-poet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Favorite poem and\/or poet?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21434,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions\/21434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}