{"id":1996,"date":"2012-11-26T13:06:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorajost.org\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2012-11-26T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T19:39:52","slug":"to-the-stars-through-difficulties-cover-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"To the Stars Through Difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am excited that a mosaic of mine will be on the cover of the forthcoming book To the Stars Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 The book will be available sometime in December, so stay tuned!
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This collection of 150 poems, each one written as part of a collaborative whole, was edited by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Kansas Poet Laureate 2009-13.
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To the Stars Through Difficulties<\/em> takes the form of a <\/span>renga<\/span><\/a><\/span>, a collaborative poem in which each participant writes in response to the one or two parts of the poem that came before. <\/span>Each portion of the poem has been highlighted throughout the year (2012) on the blog <\/span><\/span>150 Kansas Poems<\/span><\/a><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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(To the Stars Through Difficulties<\/em> was edited by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg<\/span><\/a><\/span>; cover design by Leah Sewell<\/span><\/a><\/span>; cover art by Lora Jost; interior design by Denise Low-Weso<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-2009; poems by 150 writers who have a unique relationship to Kansas — its landscape and culture.)<\/p>\n

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I am excited that a mosaic of mine will be on the cover of the forthcoming book To the Stars Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices.\u00c2\u00a0 The book will be available sometime in December, so stay tuned!   This collection of 150 poems, each one written as part of a collaborative whole, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[335,334,12],"tags":[270,137,132,336,340,337,342,36,341,61,338,339],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-art","category-illustration","category-mosaics","tag-270","tag-bird","tag-birds","tag-book","tag-caryn-mirriam-goldberg","tag-cover-art-2","tag-denise-low-weso","tag-kansas","tag-leah-sewell","tag-mosaic","tag-poem","tag-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}