{"id":3675,"date":"2011-07-11T19:16:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T19:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:22:16","slug":"poem-about-a-library-visualized-with-library-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/07\/11\/poem-about-a-library-visualized-with-library-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem about a library visualized with library books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripplesbypost.com\/index.php\/post-5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1050\" title=\"ripples5\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ripples5.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>This postcard from <a href=\"http:\/\/ripplesbypost.com\/index.php\/post-5\">ripple(s)<\/a>, made for William Corbett&#8217;s poem &#8220;Remembering Michael Gizzi,&#8221; which is about the Woodberry Poetry Room at the library of Harvard University, seems to me to count as a library shenanigan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Addendum, April 2014: The Dayton Metro Library in Dayton, Ohio encouraged its patrons to make poems out of spine titles. Thanks, Dina Wood, for letting me know!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DaytonMetroLibrary\/photos\/pcb.10151992626736604\/10151992607876604\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1824\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bookspines.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"bookspines\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This postcard from ripple(s), made for William Corbett&#8217;s poem &#8220;Remembering Michael Gizzi,&#8221; which is about the Woodberry Poetry Room at the library of Harvard University, seems to me to count as a library shenanigan. &nbsp; Addendum, April 2014: The Dayton Metro Library in Dayton, Ohio encouraged its patrons to make poems out of spine titles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Xh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}