{"id":214670,"date":"2026-06-09T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214670\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:55:07","slug":"nwpa-poetry-hosts-poetry-at-poetry-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214670\/","title":{"rendered":"NWPA Poetry hosts Poetry at Poetry Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NWPA Poetry presents Poetry In Poetry Park, a live poetry event on Saturday, June 13 at 2:00 pm in Hold Fast to Dreams Poetry Park, 636 E 22 St, Erie\u2019s outdoor venue dedicated to poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Hear the voice of poetry in Erie, raise your own. Two poets are featured: poet, host, producer, multidimensional Mabel Howard and breakout performer from last year\u2019s Poetry In Poetry Park Around Zabawa Nathan Large. Event includes poetry open mic, hosted by Chuck Joy. (Sign-ups with Chuck on site). All ages, free admission. Bring your own chair. Bring your own poetry or just listen.<\/p>\n<p>Hold Fast To Dreams Poetry Park, the creation of the late poet and visionary Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB, is located on the north side of E 22, between Reed and Ash Streets, across from her childhood home. Extra parking is available next to Holy Trinity Church.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry In Poetry Park is presented in collaboration with the Penn State Master Gardeners of Erie and opens with a neighborhood gathering in the Trinity Square Community Garden at 1:00 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NWPA Poetry presents Poetry In Poetry Park, a live poetry event on Saturday, June 13 at 2:00 pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-214670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214670","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=214670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}