{"id":4835,"date":"2012-04-11T09:38:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T15:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=4835"},"modified":"2012-04-11T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T15:38:01","slug":"national-poetry-month-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2012\/04\/11\/national-poetry-month-events\/","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Month Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Derricotte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4836\" title=\"Derricotte\" src=\"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Derricotte.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2012\/04\/Derricotte.jpg 420w, https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2012\/04\/Derricotte-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>poems that stick with you like a song that won\u2019t stop repeating  itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream,  orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks  to your heart<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\n<em> \u2014Washington Post<\/em> on <em>Captivity<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday , April 24<br \/>\n10:30 a.m.<br \/>\nEllis Library Colonnade<\/p>\n<p>Reception<br \/>\n5:30-6:30 p.m.<br \/>\nBerlin Theatre<\/p>\n<p>Performance of <em>Mama\u2019s Kitchen<\/em><br \/>\n6:30-7:00 p.m.<br \/>\nBerlin Theatre<\/p>\n<p><em>Mama\u2019s Kitchen<\/em> is a short play by Teresa Stankiewicz based on the memoir <em>Bread on the Water: the Olden Times <\/em>by  Antonia Baquet.\u00a0 Growing up during the Great Depression Nootsie lives  with her mother Regina while serving in the house of the \u201cRice King of  the South\u201d in Crowley, Louisiana.\u00a0\u00a0 The memoirs of Toi Derricotte\u2019s  mother take us through a journey of strength and love of the African  Americans who served the rich white families in the American south.\u00a0  This brief glimpse into the lives of three women shows us the love,  laughter and hardship that all of them rose above.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nWe learn the painful lessons of history in our parents\u2019 beds. \u00a0I believe  we are sent out on their mission; their un-spoken dreams, the true self  that was neglected and even buried because it was a miracle if they  just survived to make the lives of their children better. \u00a0These are the  words that came through my mother and the poems that come through me  today<\/em>.<br \/>\n\u2013Toi Derricotte<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cpoems that stick with you like a song that won\u2019t stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2012\/04\/11\/national-poetry-month-events\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Poetry Month Events<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 19:50:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}