{"id":43268,"date":"2015-10-19T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43268"},"modified":"2015-10-20T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T20:02:23","slug":"the-poetry-society-of-america-presents-a-tribute-to-the-poet-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43268","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Society of America Presents: A Tribute to the Poet Ai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org\/psa\/events\/nyc\/#a-tribute-to-the-poet-ai--\" target=\"_blank\">The Poetry Society of America Presents: A Tribute to the Poet Ai<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gc.cuny.edu\/About-the-GC\/Building-Venues-Particulars\/Proshansky-Auditorium\" target=\"_blank\">Proshansky Auditorium<\/a><br \/>\nCUNY Graduate Center<br \/>\n365 5th Avenue (at 34th Street)<br \/>\nNew York, New York 10016<br \/>\n<strong>Monday, 2015-10-19 19:00 EDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org\/psa\/events\/nyc\/#a-tribute-to-the-poet-ai--\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org\/psa\/events\/nyc\/a-tribute-to-the-poet-ai--\/image\/attachment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ai_(poet)\" target=\"_blank\">Ai<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>In light of the poet&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25961\" target=\"_blank\">unexpected passing in 2010<\/a> and in celebration of her <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36417\" target=\"_blank\">Collected Poems<\/a><\/em> (Norton, 2012), the PSA has teamed up with the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Foundation, Graduate Center for the Humanities, CUNY, Kundiman, and Poets House to present this memorial tribute. Nine distinguished contemporary poets\u2014Timothy Donnelly, Rigoberto Gonz\u00e1lez, Tyehimba Jess, Patricia Spears Jones, Yusef Komunyakaa, Timothy Liu, Sapphire, and Susan Wheeler\u2014will read from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ai_(poet)\" target=\"_blank\">Ai&#8217;s<\/a> work, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_of_Cards_(U.S._TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">House of Cards<\/a><\/em> actor Eisa Davis will perform a selection of Ai&#8217;s well-known dramatic monologues.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org\/psa\/events\/nyc\/#a-tribute-to-the-poet-ai--\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poetry Society of America Presents: A Tribute to the Poet Ai Proshansky Auditorium CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue (at 34th Street) New York, New York 10016 Monday, 2015-10-19 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Ai In light of the poet&#8217;s unexpected passing in 2010 and in celebration of her Collected Poems (Norton, 2012), the PSA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,20],"tags":[12462,12463,21432,21431],"class_list":["post-43268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ai","tag-florence-anthony","tag-poetry-society-of-america","tag-the-poetry-society-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43336,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268\/revisions\/43336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}