{"id":1736,"date":"2014-09-16T07:26:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T06:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southend-on-sea-and-district\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2016-05-14T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T10:36:29","slug":"a-poet-in-our-midst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southend-on-sea-and-district\/2014\/09\/16\/a-poet-in-our-midst\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poet in our midst!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/southend-on-sea-and-district\/files\/2014\/09\/Mary-Jo-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1737\" src=\"\/southend-on-sea-and-district\/files\/2014\/09\/Mary-Jo-web-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mary-Jo web\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southend-on-sea-and-district\/files\/2014\/09\/Mary-Jo-web-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southend-on-sea-and-district\/files\/2014\/09\/Mary-Jo-web.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>Mary-Jo, one of our members, is a poet &#8211; a poet who\u00a0takes a very serious\u00a0view\u00a0about the evils of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>Mary-Jo has being writing about DV for several years and\u00a0last year, submitted twelve of her poems to be considered for publishing in an Isle of Wight book for distribution on UN Eliminate Violence Against Women Day &#8211; 25th November. Contributors were asked for poetry, prose or sculptures to illustrate the incidence and impact of domestic violence and all 12 of Mary-Jo&#8217;s poems were accepted, with one being used to flag up the campaign on the poster.<\/p>\n<p>She was invited to the launch and\u00a0met up with Soroptimists from the local group. The book, <em>Singing in the Storm<\/em> is available from the club and costs \u00a32.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Mary-Jo, Southend Club is very proud of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary-Jo, one of our members, is a poet &#8211; a poet who\u00a0takes a very serious\u00a0view\u00a0about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clubnews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Poet in our midst! | News | Blog | Events | SI Southend on Sea and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Southend on Sea and District : Blog &amp; News : A Poet in our midst! : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Southend on Sea and District . 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