{"id":189196,"date":"2026-05-11T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189196\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:30:20","slug":"world-poetry-day-reading-event-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189196\/","title":{"rendered":"World Poetry Day Reading Event 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xxmsonormal\">The City of St. John\u2019s will be hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unesco.org%2Fen%2Fdays%2Fpoetry&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cahurley%40stjohns.ca%7C5c3f3040306c4a6a2eed08de7a29323b%7C77d442ceddc64c9ba7edf2fb67444bdb%7C0%7C0%7C639082514541006171%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=cpV1OoPFmla7JRtKH6FpLp%2B5%2Bwx6t2QF3MYfsXL6OFo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Poetry Day<\/a> Reading Event on Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in the Foran Greene Room, Fourth\u00a0Floor, City Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\">The event will be hosted by the City\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjohns.ca\/en\/recreation-culture\/poet-laureate.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poet Laureate Mark Callanan<\/a>\u00a0and feature the following five poets:<\/p>\n<p>Allie Duff<br \/>\nPaul Moorehead<br \/>\nJulia Polyck-O\u2019Neill<br \/>\nAnna Swanson<br \/>\nAgnes Walsh<\/p>\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\">This is a public event and registration is not required. Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\">Learn more about the featured poets on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjohns.ca\/en\/recreation-culture\/world-poetry-day-reading-event.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Poetry Day Reading Event page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of St. John\u2019s will be hosting a World Poetry Day Reading Event on Thursday, March 19,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-189196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}