{"id":17566,"date":"2013-08-20T11:49:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17566"},"modified":"2013-08-20T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:49:58","slug":"one-of-my-poems-is-up-at-the-new-verse-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17566","title":{"rendered":"One of My Poems is Up at The New Verse News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New Verse News<\/a>, a website that publishes “politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues” has just today published the first part of a long poem I have been working on called “Because Fear Now is Never Foreign to Me<\/a>.” The current events in the poem–the ebola epidemic in Sudan and (as far as I can tell) the first European female suicide bomber<\/a>, who detonated herself in 2005–are not so current anymore, but I am very happy to see this part of the poem published. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

Or sometimes death is a darkness honing in on you,
\na Muriel Degauque, whose Roman Catholic life began
\nin the coal-mining black-country corner of Belgium.
\nHandpicked,\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0suggests,
\nfor the color of her skin
\nand the way the voice she spoke her language in
\ncould pacify suspicion, Muriel
\nstepped off the edge of her days
\non November 9, 2005 in Baquba Iraq,
\na Muslim come to kill American soldiers,
\nchoosing, though no one knows why\u2014
\nafter she exploded herself,
\nthey found her passport and some papers
\nbut no explanation\u2014choosing
\nthe world to come promised to its martyrs
\nby her new husband\u2019s religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do hope you will\u00a0click on over<\/a>\u00a0to read the rest.\u00a0(There is more about Ms. Degauque and her husband in later sections of the poem.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Verse News, a website that publishes “politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues” has just today published the first part of a long poem I have been working on called “Because Fear Now is Never Foreign … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17570,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566\/revisions\/17570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}