{"id":2687,"date":"2012-05-16T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T19:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:53","slug":"why-i-still-write-poetry-by-charles-simic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/16\/why-i-still-write-poetry-by-charles-simic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Still Write Poetry (by Charles Simic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2012\/may\/15\/why-i-still-write-poetry\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/chessfever_jpg_230x328_q85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mystery to me is that I continued writing poetry long after there was any need for that. My early poems were embarrassingly bad, and the ones that came right after, not much better. I have known in my life a number of young poets with immense talent who gave up poetry even after being told they were geniuses. No one ever made that mistake with me, and yet I kept going.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2012\/may\/15\/why-i-still-write-poetry\/\">Why I Still Write Poetry by Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Charles Simic tries to explain why he continues to write poetry, against all sorts of odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[621,17,620,622],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-nyreviewofbooks","tag-poetry","tag-simic","tag-whyistillwrite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10046,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/10046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}