{"id":22209,"date":"2013-06-20T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=22209"},"modified":"2013-06-21T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T22:22:35","slug":"presidential-poetry-focus-of-summer-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/presidential-poetry-focus-of-summer-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential poetry focus of summer seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poetry a president reads or writes can provide a better understanding of the individual who occupies the Oval Office, and examining such works may reveal insights into leadership styles and the exercise of power.<\/p>\n<p><b>Paul Ferlazzo<\/b>, English professor emeritus, recently published <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1433117681\/ref=cm_sw_su_dp\">Poetry and the American Presidency<\/a><\/i>, which tells the story of 18 U.S. presidents\u2014from Washington to Obama\u2014who\u00a0read poetry, wrote poetry and wrote about poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Ferlazzo will present \u201cPoetry and Poets in the White House: The Surprising Story of Literature and Power<b>\u201d<\/b>\u00a0with highlights from his book as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/seminar-series-featured-at-new-venues-this-summer\/\">Summer Seminar Series<\/a> from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 26, at La Posada Hotel in Winslow, Ariz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/presidential-poetry-focus-of-summer-seminar\/\">The poetry a president reads or writes can provide a better understanding of the individual who occupies the Oval Office, and examining such works may reveal insights into leadership styles and the exercise of power. Paul Ferlazzo, English professor emeritus, recently published Poetry and the American Presidency, which tells the story of 18 U.S. presidents\u2014from&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":22211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}