{"id":1391,"date":"2017-05-20T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T23:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2017-05-20T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T23:50:29","slug":"professions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2017\/05\/20\/professions\/","title":{"rendered":"Professions"},"content":{"rendered":"

V. told me that when someone [at a meeting to program literary events] proposed a poetry reading by cops who write poetry, another person said, “Yeah, and let’s have a night for poets who beat people up.” – Reginald Gibbons<\/a>, in Taking Note: From Poets’ Notebooks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know of any\u00a0English (or French) language poet who is or was a cop. Many poets have come to us from\u00a0the worlds of business, medicine, labour relations, prostitution, mining, sports, and combat – but *not* from police departments. I don’t know that this can be said for any other profession.<\/p>\n

Further, *lots of poets<\/strong>* have<\/em> beaten people up. (A couple of these are friends of mine.)<\/p>\n

Addendum<\/strong>: My co-editor Tierney introduces me to Sarah Cortez<\/a>, the exception who\u00a0proves the rule. – May 22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

V. told me that when someone [at a meeting to program literary events] proposed a poetry reading by cops who write poetry, another person said, “Yeah, and let’s have a night for poets who beat people up.” – Reginald Gibbons, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}