{"id":159,"date":"2013-08-16T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2013-08-16T14:28:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T21:28:20","slug":"new-e-book-just-in-time-for-nps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/new-e-book-just-in-time-for-nps","title":{"rendered":"New E-book Just in Time for NPS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last spring, Tatyana<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/alight_450px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-160\" alt=\"Alight E-book Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/alight_450px-203x300.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/alight_450px-203x300.jpg 203w, http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/alight_450px.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a> Brown took her Lit Slam brainchild to the <a title=\"Women of the World Poetry Slam Website\" href=\"http:\/\/wow.poetryslam.com\/?page_id=29\">2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam<\/a>, where the organizers graciously allowed her to poll the audiences at each bout: &#8220;Which did you think were the best-written poems of the festival, the poems you&#8217;d like to take home with you?&#8221; The result is <em>Alight<\/em>, an E-book of those poems. We are super-proud of this book. It contains stunning, emotionally powerful work from Lit Slam winners <a title=\"Sarah Kay's Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaysarahsera.com\/\">Sarah Kay<\/a> and Sasha Banks, as well as from spoken-word luminaries such as Dominique Christina Ashaheed, Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie, and <a title=\"Sierra DeMulder's Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierrademulder.com\/\">Sierra DeMulder<\/a>. We are personally and professionally delighted to publish an audience favorite by <a title=\"Carrie Rudzinski hits the Bay!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/carrie-rudzinski-hits-the-bay\">our own<\/a> <a title=\"Carrie Rudzinski's Tumblr\" href=\"http:\/\/carrierudzinski.tumblr.com\/\">Carrie Rudzinsk<\/a>i, who competed in the festival for the third time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alight<\/em> is available for free during the <a title=\"National Poetry Slam\" href=\"http:\/\/nps2013.poetryslam.com\/\">2013 National Poetry Slam<\/a>, taking place this week out in Cambridge, Massachusetts. If you can be there, you should be there. If you can&#8217;t be there, <a title=\"Download Links for Alight E-book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/pages\/books.html#anchor_alight\">download <em>Alight<\/em> today<\/a> and keep a little poetry in your pocket this week. It&#8217;s available for Kindle, Nook\/Kobo, and PDF formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last spring, Tatyana Brown took her Lit Slam brainchild to the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam, where the organizers graciously allowed her to poll the audiences at each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":""},"categories":[33,50],"tags":[52,49,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}