{"id":633,"date":"2019-04-25T09:46:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/?p=633"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:31:27","slug":"poet-patricia-smith-inspires-at-sp-gibbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/poet-patricia-smith-inspires-at-sp-gibbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Patricia Smith Inspires at SP Gibbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Award-winning poet and spoken word artist Patricia Smith read her work for St. Petersburg College students at the St. Petersburg Gibbs Campus on April 3 in the Music Center. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smith read her work as part of Communications Week, a celebration of the academic programs and careers within that field. Smith was introduced by Professor Sheree Greer, who talked about how Smith\u2019s work inspired her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smith is the author of seven poetry collections and many anthologies. She has won four National Poetry Slams, and is a two-time Pushcart Prize winner. Smith read from her work, shared her experiences as a poet, answered questions, and held a book signing. She began her reading with a poem dedicated to the sixth grade class at a Dade County elementary school, one of the first places she read poetry on tour. From Motown to a very personal story of loss, the audience sat rapt as Smith read from her work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After her reading she spoke with students about working as a poet, and answered questions. She talked about getting her start as a poet, what inspired her, and more. Smith took extra time to speak with students one-on-one before going to the lobby to sign books. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/future-students\/degrees-training\/communications\">programs and degrees in Communications<\/a>, and the college\u2019s award-winning student newspaper <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sandbox.spcollege.edu\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sandbox News<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning poet and spoken word artist Patricia Smith read her work for St. Petersburg College students at the St. Petersburg Gibbs Campus on April 3 in the Music Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/communications-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}