{"id":6300,"date":"2024-04-10T17:59:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T17:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/stories\/?p=6300"},"modified":"2024-04-10T20:54:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:54:24","slug":"flagstaff-youth-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/flagstaff-youth-poet-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagstaff\u2019s first Youth Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to NAU alumna Micaela Merryman, <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/english\/programs\/bachelors-degrees\/english\/\">BA English<\/a>, \u201922, poetry is \u201cone of the best resources we have to understand one another, offering insight into perspectives that we may never experience firsthand.\u201d Her passion for sharing poetry with the public began at NAU and continues with events in Flagstaff, including the Off the Rails poetry series and the Northern Arizona Book Festival. Connections developed during these events led to her becoming Flagstaff\u2019s first Youth Poet Laureate. As Poet Laureate, she initiated the Youth Poetry Council, which offers literary events for high school and college students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/world-poetry-day\/\">full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAU alumna Micaela Merryman, BA English, \u201922, shares her passion for poetry with high school and college students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":6324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6300"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}