{"id":723,"date":"2012-12-07T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/12\/los-angeles-gets-a-poet-laureate.html"},"modified":"2012-12-07T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T17:59:00","slug":"los-angeles-gets-a-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/12\/los-angeles-gets-a-poet-laureate.html","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Gets a Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WELL, folks, the mayor has appointed Eloise Klein Healy the city&#8217;s first poet laureate. <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/12\/eloise-klein-healy-los-angeles-la-first-poet-laureate.html\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the LA Times story.<\/p>\n<p>Healy and I have a second-hand connection since we&#8217;ve both published on Red Hen Press, so I will not evaluate her work except to say I&#8217;m pleased with her appointnent. Here&#8217;s poet Dana Gioia, who was part of the selection committee, on her commitment to the city:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Healy has devoted her time and energy to building the L.A. literary community. For years she has exhibited the passion and commitment for public service that we looked for in a poet laureate. When she applied for the position, she also\u00a0wrote a detailed vision of what she hoped to accomplish if she was awarded the position. It was clear from this\u00a0statement that she not only had a vision of her laureateship but that it was also based in a deep understanding of\u00a0L.A.&#8217;s literary and educational landscape.<\/div>\n<p>A hearty congratulations to Eloise Klein Healy from The Misread City!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELL, folks, the mayor has appointed Eloise Klein Healy the city&#8217;s first poet laureate. Here&#8217;s the LA Times story. Healy and I have a second-hand connection since we&#8217;ve both published on Red Hen Press, so I will not evaluate her work except to say I&#8217;m pleased with her appointnent. Here&#8217;s poet Dana Gioia, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30,90,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-literary","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"category-poetry","9":"category-west-coast","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}