{"id":6902,"date":"2025-01-21T20:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=6902"},"modified":"2025-01-21T20:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:47:49","slug":"wt-poet-laureate-submissions-due","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/wt-poet-laureate-submissions-due\/","title":{"rendered":"WT Poet Laureate Submissions Due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Call for Nominations for West Tisbury Poet Laureate!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The West Tisbury Library is seeking nominations for the new West Tisbury Poet Laureate for 2025-2028. The term of Tain Leonard-Peck, our current town poet laureate, is coming to a close. We thank Tain for providing us with a new poem to enjoy each year. Tain will read one more poem at West Tisbury\u2019s Town Meeting this spring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poet Laureate Nominees must be residents of West Tisbury and willing to help raise public awareness of the importance of poetry to our Island community. Please nominate yourself or someone else. Submit a poet\u2019s name and contact information by emailing wt_mail<\/span><a href=\"mailto:wtprograms@clamsnet.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@clamsnet.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The deadline for submissions is March 1st, 2025. The new poet laureate will be appointed by April 1st and introduced at the Town Meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information about the nomination process and the role of town Poet Laureate, visit <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/west-tisbury-poet-laureate\/\">https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/west-tisbury-poet-laureate\/<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Nominations for West Tisbury Poet Laureate! The West Tisbury Library is seeking nominations for the new West Tisbury Poet Laureate for 2025-2028. The term of Tain Leonard-Peck, our current town poet laureate, is coming to a close. We thank Tain for providing us with a new poem to enjoy each year. Tain will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-6902","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/6902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6902"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=6902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}