{"id":37149,"date":"2018-04-16T15:29:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/16\/somali-british-poet-momtaza-mehri-named-young-peoples-laureate-for-london\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:29:31","slug":"somali-british-poet-momtaza-mehri-named-young-peoples-laureate-for-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=37149","title":{"rendered":"Somali-British poet Momtaza Mehri named young people&#039;s laureate for London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 24-year-old poet, with a background in biochemistry, wants young people in the capital \u2018to see poetry as part of their every day\u2019The 24-year-old Somali-British poet Momtaza Mehri, who has been chosen as the new young people\u2019s laureate for London, is hoping to spend her year in the role convincing young people \u201cto see poetry as part of their every day, rather than in some dusty tome, or academic niche interest\u201d.Mehri, who has a background in biochemical science and wrote the poetry chapbook sugah. lump. prayer, has been shortlisted for this year\u2019s Brunel African poetry prize and won last year\u2019s Out-Spoken Page poetry prize. As laureate, Mehri hopes to encourage young people to voice their concerns and experiences through poetry. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/apr\/16\/somali-british-poet-momtaza-mehri-named-young-peoples-laureate-for-london\" target=\"_blank\">Somali-British poet Momtaza Mehri named young people&#039;s laureate for London<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 24-year-old poet, with a background in biochemistry, wants young people in the capital \u2018to see poetry as part of their every day\u2019The 24-year-old Somali-British poet Momtaza Mehri, who has been chosen as the new young people\u2019s laureate for London, is hoping to spend her year in the role convincing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}