{"id":45497,"date":"2018-04-26T15:01:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=45497"},"modified":"2018-04-27T15:54:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T15:54:36","slug":"acc-hosts-poetry-discussion-and-scholarship-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/26\/acc-hosts-poetry-discussion-and-scholarship-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC hosts poetry discussion and scholarship contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Austin Community College (ACC) and Cultural Lounge invite current and prospective students to a discussion on the book &#8220;Citizen: An American Lyric,\u201d by poet Claudia Rankine. The event is Saturday, April 28, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Carver Museum and Cultural Center, 1165 Angelina St.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rankine\u2019s poetry explores themes of citizenship in the United States. Participants are encouraged to prepare a spoken word poem related to the topic and will have three minutes to share their poem. Current and incoming ACC students are eligible to receive a grand prize $1,000 scholarship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event is part of this year\u2019s Big Read program, a national initiative to promote reading in the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">community and on college campuses. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsors are ACC\u2019s Creative Writing Department and Office of Equity and Inclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information about Big Read activities, visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/partnerships\/nea-big-read\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Read website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or contact Gullick at 512-223-3226 or <\/span><a href=\"mailto:cgullick@austincc.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cgullick@austincc.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) and Cultural Lounge invite current and prospective students to a discussion on the book &#8220;Citizen: An American Lyric,\u201d by poet Claudia Rankine. The event is Saturday, April 28, from 4 to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/04\/26\/acc-hosts-poetry-discussion-and-scholarship-contest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":45498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,19],"tags":[1905,43,465,1854],"class_list":["post-45497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-big-read","tag-contest","tag-poetry","tag-scholarship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}