{"id":6580,"date":"2014-04-04T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6580"},"modified":"2014-04-04T07:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T07:58:13","slug":"6580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/6580\/","title":{"rendered":"Ally Malinenko for National Poetry Month in the US and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Americans are Baffled to Discover People Who Do Not Want To Improve Themselves\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are French cds to listen to<\/p>\n<p>and all six volumes of Proust to read<\/p>\n<p>An exhibit that opened on the 14th<\/p>\n<p>about the work of a great writer<\/p>\n<p>who wrote great letters and<\/p>\n<p>left behind great thought<\/p>\n<p>to make you even better<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But still you are sitting there<\/p>\n<p>on that couch,<\/p>\n<p>outside a child screams<\/p>\n<p>a dog barks<\/p>\n<p>and you couldn\u2019t move<\/p>\n<p>if you tried<\/p>\n<p>because deep down inside<\/p>\n<p>you can feel<\/p>\n<p>the slow death<\/p>\n<p>that awaits you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>year after year,<\/p>\n<p>each moment clinging to the next<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a fact you still,<\/p>\n<p>even after all this time,<\/p>\n<p>can\u2019t believe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ally Malinenko<\/strong> has been writing poems and stories for awhile now. Occasionally she gets things published. She is the author of <em>The Wanting Bone<\/em> (Six Gallery Press) and <em>Lizzy Speare<\/em> <em>and the Cursed Tomb<\/em> (Antenna Books).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Americans are Baffled to Discover People Who Do Not Want To Improve Themselves\u00a0 &nbsp; There are French cds to listen to and all six volumes of Proust to read An exhibit that opened on the 14th about the work of a great writer who wrote great letters and left behind great thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6583,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}