{"id":2480,"date":"2018-01-15T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:34:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:34:56","slug":"wnba-nola-celebrated-national-reading-group-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"WNBA-NOLA Celebrated NATIONAL READING GROUP MONTH!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 13,\u00a0WNBA-NOLA presented\u00a0<i>Words &amp; Society: Women <span class=\"il\">Poets<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Resist<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>with Louisiana&#8217;s former state poet laureate Julie Kane and local <span class=\"il\">poets<\/span> Stacey Balkun, Gina Ferrara, Andrea Panzeca and Carolyn Hembree\u00a0as moderator.<\/p>\n<div>The program was part of National Reading Group Month, WNBA&#8217;s signature event (rescheduled from last October due to weather), and took place at the\u00a0<b>Mid-City library<\/b>, 4140 Canal Street, New Orleans. Books were\u00a0 sold during the event and the authors were available for signings.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1449 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1450 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-1-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-1-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-1.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1451 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-2-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-2-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-2.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1452\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1453 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-4.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1454 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-5-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-5-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NRGM-2018-5.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Reading Group Month is an initiative of the Women&#8217;s National Book Association (WNBA). \u00a0Founded in 1917, WNBA promotes literacy, a love of reading, and women&#8217;s roles in the community of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 13,\u00a0WNBA-NOLA presented\u00a0Words &amp; Society: Women Poets Resist\u00a0with Louisiana&#8217;s former state poet laureate Julie Kane and local poets Stacey Balkun, Gina Ferrara, Andrea Panzeca and Carolyn Hembree\u00a0as moderator. The program was part of National Reading Group Month, WNBA&#8217;s signature event (rescheduled from last October due to weather), and took place at the\u00a0Mid-City library, 4140 &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2480\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-2480","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}