{"id":6000,"date":"2014-03-31T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T16:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2014-03-31T13:51:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T18:51:30","slug":"english-honor-society-to-host-spoken-word-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/6000","title":{"rendered":"English Honor Society to Host \u201cSpoken Word Slam\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6001\" style=\"margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px\" alt=\"poetry\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2014\/03\/poetry.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"192\" \/><strong>By Hannah Hecht&#8211;<\/strong>Do you have a poem just bursting out of you? Do you love to explore new worlds through fiction? Do you keep a diary of creative nonfiction? Do you want to win $100?<\/p>\n<p>If you answered \u201cyes,\u201d to any of these questions, you should print off your writings and present them at the Sigma Tau Delta \u201cSpoken Word Slam\u201d on Tuesday, April 1,\u00a0at 7 p.m. in Buck\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This event marks the second Spoken Word Slam of the year for the college\u2019s resident English honor society. In past years, the event has been limited to poetry, but this year, the group has expanded the event to include all creative writing. The honor society hopes that the expansion will draw in people who are interested in all different types of writing, rather than just poetry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to the Spoken Word Slam last semester, and it was a lot of fun,\u201d said senior Jenna Bowmaster. \u201cIt was really cool to hear my peers present their writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last semester\u2019s slam was a huge success, and the group hopes to draw even more competitors and spectators for the slam on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sarah Munson plans to compete with a short story she wrote for her English capstone class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who has any level of writing should present at the slam,\u201d said Munson. \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t be afraid to compete because it\u2019s a chance to show off your talents and get feedback on your writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students interested in competing should bring three pieces of original poetry, lyrics, or short story, and be ready to perform. The event is open to the public and there is no entry fee. There is a $100 prize for first place.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who enjoys literature and doesn\u2019t want to compete is welcome to come enjoy the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hannah Hecht&#8211;Do you have a poem just bursting out of you? Do you love to explore new worlds through fiction? Do you keep a diary of creative nonfiction? Do you want to win $100? If you answered \u201cyes,\u201d to any of these questions, you should print off your writings and present them at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6021,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}