{"id":3234,"date":"2024-11-06T20:26:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/town-news\/wintonbury-poetry-series-a-commemorative-reading-to-honor-rennie-mcquilkin-bpl-virtual-program-11-14-24\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T20:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:26:54","slug":"wintonbury-poetry-series-a-commemorative-reading-to-honor-rennie-mcquilkin-bpl-virtual-program-11-14-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wintonbury-poetry-series-a-commemorative-reading-to-honor-rennie-mcquilkin-bpl-virtual-program-11-14-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Wintonbury Poetry Series: A Commemorative Reading to Honor Rennie McQuilkin (BPL Virtual Program 11\/14\/24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Event date:<\/strong> November 14, 2024 <br \/><strong>Event Time: <\/strong>07:00 PM &#8211; 09:30 PM<br \/><strong>Description:<\/strong><br \/>For its November reading, Wintonbury Poetry Series is pleased to announce a commemorative reading to honor Rennie McQuilkin, who passed away on July 3, 2024. Rennie was a major force in the Connecticut poetry scene. He not only founded the popular and long-running Sunken Garden Poetry Series at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington and served as Connecticut State Poet Laureate from 2015-2018, but he also published countless poets in his Antrim House Books Press and was a friend and mentor to many. He will be greatly missed by those whose lives he touched.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date: November 14, 2024 Event Time: 07:00 PM &#8211; 09:30 PMDescription:For its November reading, Wintonbury Poetry Series is pleased to announce a commemorative reading to honor Rennie McQuilkin, who passed away on July 3, 2024. Rennie was a major &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Wintonbury Poetry Series: A Commemorative Reading to Honor Rennie McQuilkin (BPL Virtual Program 11\/14\/24)\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wintonbury-poetry-series-a-commemorative-reading-to-honor-rennie-mcquilkin-bpl-virtual-program-11-14-24\/#more-3234\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wintonbury Poetry Series: A Commemorative Reading to Honor Rennie McQuilkin (BPL Virtual Program 11\/14\/24)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-town-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}