{"id":3984,"date":"2015-01-03T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:24:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:24:52","slug":"may-the-child-be-at-peace-karina-lutz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=3984","title":{"rendered":"MAY THE CHILD BE AT PEACE &#8212; Karina Lutz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May the child be at peace.<br \/>\nMay the child&#8217;s peace radiate to all in her grasp.<br \/>\nMay the child&#8217;s peace radiate to all whose grasp she is within.<br \/>\nMay the pedophile be at peace, and the coyote.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nMay the child soldiers&#8217; commander be at peace.<br \/>\nMay the commander&#8217;s arms dealer be at peace<br \/>\nand the arms maker<br \/>\nand the investor<br \/>\nand the pensioner<br \/>\nand the inventor of money.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd you and I, my friends, and you and I.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nKarina Lutz is a writer, editor, teacher, and lifelong activist. She helped secure passage of sustainable energy legislation, thwart a proposed megaport, and restore wetlands in her home watershed of Narragansett Bay, RI. In 2013, she received honorable mention from Homebound Publications Poetry Prize for her manuscript, <em>Preliminary Visions<\/em>. Her poems have been published by <em>Tulane Review, Blueline, Written River, The Wayfarer, Poecology, Bleeding Lion, Buddhist Poetry Review, <\/em>and <em>Green Living Journal<\/em> and one is pending publication in <em>The Transnational<\/em>. She has performed her epic peace poem, &#8220;Encircling Earth,&#8221; at dozens of venues in New England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the child be at peace. May the child&#8217;s peace radiate to all in her grasp. May the child&#8217;s peace radiate to all whose grasp she is within. May the pedophile be at peace, and the coyote. &nbsp; May the child soldiers&#8217; commander be at peace. May the commander&#8217;s arms dealer be at peace and [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[198],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-art-by-akinoh-kodah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}