{"id":16675,"date":"2012-10-17T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=16675"},"modified":"2012-10-16T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T06:28:16","slug":"whats-happening-today-its-canterbury-poets-spring-reading-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/whats-happening-today-its-canterbury-poets-spring-reading-no-3\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Happening Today: It&#8217;s Canterbury Poets&#8217; Spring Reading No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16099\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/spring-fever-is-well-truly-here-with-the-poetry-in-performance-spring-season-2012\/7-9-2009five-poets-074a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16099\" class=\" wp-image-16099  \" title=\"7-9-2009Five Poets 074a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/7-9-2009Five-Poets-074a-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/7-9-2009Five-Poets-074a-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/7-9-2009Five-Poets-074a-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/7-9-2009Five-Poets-074a.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frankie McMillan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today is Canterbury Poets&#8217; Spring Reading Series No.3, with three excellent guest poets appearing, including my friend and very successful poet, <strong>Frankie McMillan<\/strong>, together with <strong>Joan Fleming<\/strong> and <strong>Andrew Coyle<\/strong>, the latter of whom I know from the <a href=\"http:\/\/catalystnz.blogspot.co.nz\/\">Catalyst Open Mic<\/a> poetry nights.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s event will run from 6.30 pm at the CPSA hall, Christchurch Polytechnic on Madras Street, commencing with a BYO Open Mic.<\/p>\n<p>(The programme for the full eight weeks is <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/spring-fever-is-well-truly-here-with-the-poetry-in-performance-spring-season-2012\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>In the past, I have featured the following poems by Frankie McMillan. Click on the links to find out more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/09\/28\/tuesday-poem-out-of-the-blue-by-frankie-mcmillan\/\">Tuesday Poem: &#8220;Out of the Blue&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/tuesday-poem-my-father-the-oceanographer-by-frankie-mcmillan\/\">Tuesday Poem: &#8220;My Father, the Oceanographer&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joan Fleming was featured on the Tuesday Poem Hub in 2010<em>, <\/em>with her prose poem <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz\/2010\/07\/auntie-talking-to-her-niece-by-joan.html\">&#8220;Auntie talking to her niece.&#8221;<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Canterbury Poets&#8217; Spring Reading Series No.3, with three excellent guest poets appearing, including my friend and very successful poet, Frankie McMillan, together with Joan Fleming and Andrew Coyle, the latter of whom I know from the Catalyst Open Mic poetry nights. Tonight&#8217;s event will run from 6.30 pm at the CPSA hall, Christchurch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16675"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16685,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions\/16685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}