{"id":224182,"date":"2026-05-08T02:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224182\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:03:14","slug":"at-the-hour-of-now-with-maria-lisella-queens-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224182\/","title":{"rendered":"At The Hour Of Now with Maria Lisella, Queens Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Lisella is the sixth Queens Poet Laureate and was named a poets laureate fellow in 2020 by the Academy of American Poets. Her second full-length poetry collection, At the Hour of Now (Bordighera Press, 2026) is now available. Her Pushcart Prize-nominated work appears in Thieves in the Family (NYQ Books), Amore on Hope Street (Finishing Line Press), and Two Naked Feet (Poets Wear Prada). She co-curates the Italian American Writers Association readings, and is a travel writer by profession. @mljourneys<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-198865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NB-Poet-Laureate-Queens-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Lisella is the sixth Queens Poet Laureate and was named a poets laureate fellow in 2020 by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-224182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}