{"id":585,"date":"2017-09-25T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=585"},"modified":"2017-09-25T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:09:00","slug":"poetry-slam-pays-tribute-to-bob-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2017\/09\/25\/poetry-slam-pays-tribute-to-bob-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Slam Pays Tribute to Bob Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-586 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/09\/Flyer-Poetry-Slam-No.-2-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/09\/Flyer-Poetry-Slam-No.-2-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/09\/Flyer-Poetry-Slam-No.-2-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/09\/Flyer-Poetry-Slam-No.-2-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/09\/Flyer-Poetry-Slam-No.-2-490x379.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/09\/Flyer-Poetry-Slam-No.-2-1080x835.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2017\/09\/Flyer-Poetry-Slam-No.-2.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>October 10th, 7:30pm in the ACU Library Atrium.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back by popular demand, ACU Library will partner with the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acu.edu\/community\/cas\/departments-schools\/language-literature\/overview\/about.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Language and Literature department<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to bring Poetry Slam &#8211; a free evening of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">performance poetry. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poetry Slam places dual emphasis on writing and performance, encouraging poets to focus on what they\u2019re saying and how they\u2019re saying it. \u00a0\u00a0The free event is open to all and will feature Dr. Al Haley\u2019s poetry workshop students as well as anyone else interested in participating in the open mic session. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, Poetry Slam pays tribute to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2016\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bob Dylan, who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u00a0Dylan is t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he first songwriter to receive the prestigious award and was honored for his creative poetic expressions within the American song tradition. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 10th, 7:30pm in the ACU Library Atrium. Back by popular demand, ACU Library will partner with the Language and Literature department to bring Poetry Slam &#8211; a free evening of performance poetry. \u00a0\u00a0 Poetry Slam places dual emphasis on writing and performance, encouraging poets to focus on what they\u2019re saying and how they\u2019re saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}