{"id":99120,"date":"2017-04-19T21:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T01:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=99120"},"modified":"2017-04-19T21:47:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T01:47:39","slug":"meryl-streep-meg-ryan-among-readers-at-poetry-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/19\/meryl-streep-meg-ryan-among-readers-at-poetry-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep, Meg Ryan among readers at poetry tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99121\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14650493_879473378821567_981801867279041399_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99121\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14650493_879473378821567_981801867279041399_n.jpg\" alt=\"Meryl Streep, Meg Ryan and Grammy-winning jazz performer Cecile McLorin Salvant are among the readers, and singers, at a Lincoln Center tribute to poetry. (Photo: Meg Ryan\/ Facebook)\" width=\"587\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14650493_879473378821567_981801867279041399_n.jpg 587w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14650493_879473378821567_981801867279041399_n-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meryl Streep, Meg Ryan and Grammy-winning jazz performer Cecile McLorin Salvant are among the readers, and singers, at a Lincoln Center tribute to poetry. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RealMegRyan\">Meg Ryan\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2014Meryl Streep, Meg Ryan and Grammy-winning jazz performer Cecile McLorin Salvant are among the readers, and singers, at a Lincoln Center tribute to poetry.<\/p>\n<p>The 15th annual presentation of Poetry &amp; the Creative Mind Wednesday night also features Amanda Palmer, Maurice Hines and several others reading works by such poets as Walt Whitman and Nikki Giovanni \u2013and sometimes throwing in a little music.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer brought a ukulele on stage, while Salvant&#8217;s voice was the only instrument she needed. Hines was shaking and twitching and nearly started dancing as he read Maya Angelou&#8217;s \u201cAin&#8217;t I Bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sold-out event at Avery Fisher Hall is presented by the Academy of American Poets, in honour of National Poetry Month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014Meryl Streep, Meg Ryan and Grammy-winning jazz performer Cecile McLorin Salvant are among the readers, and singers, at a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":99121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[18156,15104,8692],"class_list":["post-99120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-meg-ryan","tag-meryl-streep","tag-poetry","mauthors-hillel-italie","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}