{"id":419,"date":"2008-06-10T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=419"},"modified":"2008-06-10T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T12:30:17","slug":"poetryandtheavantegarde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/poetryandtheavantegarde\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry and the &#034;avant garde&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Kleon is a poet whose basic tools include a black marker and the New York Times rather than pen and paper.  Kleon, recognized by NPR and Toronto&#8217;s National Post as an original, insightful poet with a fresh take on the world of poetry, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinkleon.com\/category\/newspaper-blackout-poems\/page\/3\/\">blog<\/a> featuring new poems every few days. Many are funny, some are weird, and a few are insightful. An interesting take on form and restrictions when there are so many debates going on in the poetry world about what constitutes avant-garde, whether there should be a return to traditional forms, and what the role of poetry is today&#8211;how relevant is it and how relevant it should be, what the act of poetry is (very controversial when you get people like Levertov saying that &#8216;writing the poem is the poet&#8217;s means of summoning the divine&#8221;).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/kristin\/blackoutpoem.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThanks go to Aaron for the discovery of Kleon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Kleon is a poet whose basic tools include a black marker and the New York Times rather than pen and paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}