{"id":1972,"date":"2008-05-26T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:13","slug":"ya-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"YA Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/trends\/kids_are_reading_poetry_even_if_adults_dont_recognize_the_poets_85602.asp?c=rss\" target= _blank>GalleyCat<\/a> talks about the effect of teen readers on poetry sales &#8212; mentioning a favorite poet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyasones.com\/mybooks.htm\" target= _blank>Sonya Somes,<\/a> and the highly prolific &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenhopkins.com\/Poetry.html\" target= _blank>Ellen Hopkins<\/a>. (I&#8217;d like a reader&#8217;s take on her, since I&#8217;ve not read any of her work. Do her books fly off the shelf at your library?) Who knew? When Kelly started Poetry Fridays, it was in response to a perceived lack in the genre, and it&#8217;s showing some signs of turning around, at least a little. Could the kidlitosphere really have been a force for good, here? <\/p>\n<p>We have <i>got<\/i> to get matching superhero outfits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GalleyCat talks about the effect of teen readers on poetry sales &#8212; mentioning a favorite poet, Sonya Somes, and the highly prolific &#8211; Ellen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4950,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}