{"id":3671,"date":"2019-03-14T02:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T02:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2019-03-14T02:12:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T02:12:32","slug":"in-these-times-emily-no-by-janet-mccann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/in-these-times-emily-no-by-janet-mccann\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THESE TIMES, EMILY, NO by Janet McCann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3674 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cellars.png\" alt=\"These Times, Emily, No\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cellars.png 560w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cellars-300x169.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 560\/315;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">IN THESE TIMES, EMILY, NO <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Janet McCann<\/p>\n<p><em>Tell all the truth but tell it slant<\/em> \u2014 Emily Dickinson<\/p>\n<p>Tell it bent,<br \/>\nrefracted in an oblique lens?<\/p>\n<p>No, tell it as a fishhook<br \/>\ncaught in smug corpulence<\/p>\n<p>Tell it as drawn blood<br \/>\nLabel the dark red vials<\/p>\n<p>Tell it as a sword<br \/>\nmightier than the pen<\/p>\n<p>Tell it as a scream<br \/>\nhalf an inch from a sleeping ear<\/p>\n<p>Tell it as a siren<br \/>\na snapped shriek<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t hide it in gardens,<br \/>\nbejewel it, dress it in silk<\/p>\n<p>Spell it<br \/>\nTell it<br \/>\nYell it<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Journals publishing Janet McCann\u2019s work include KANSAS QUARTERLY, PARNASSUS, NIMROD, SOU&#8217;WESTER, AMERICA, CHRISTIAN CENTURY, CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE, NEW YORK QUARTERLY, TENDRIL, and others. A 1989 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship winner, she taught at Texas A &amp; M University from 1969-2016, is now Professor Emerita. She has co-edited anthologies with David Craig, ODD ANGLES OF HEAVEN (Shaw, 1994), PLACE OF PASSAGE (Story Line, 2000), and POEMS OF FRANCIS AND CLARE (St. Anthony Messenger, 2004). Most recent poetry collection: THE CRONE AT THE CASINO (Lamar University Press, 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journals publishing Janet McCann\u2019s work include KANSAS QUARTERLY, PARNASSUS, NIMROD, SOU&#8217;WESTER, AMERICA, CHRISTIAN CENTURY, CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE, NEW YORK QUARTERLY, TENDRIL, and others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems-about-truth","category-poems-about-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}