{"id":2155,"date":"2022-05-24T13:14:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T13:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2022-05-24T13:14:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T13:14:50","slug":"michael-lee-richardson-poetry-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/2022\/05\/24\/michael-lee-richardson-poetry-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Lee Richardson &#8211; Poetry Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive thanks to Michael Lee Richardson for his amazing LGBTQI+ Pride workshop with a group of our brilliant S2 pupils. They had such a great time working on blackout poems, creating a collaborative poem and discussing a range of topics from The Gorbals Vampire to storylining for Hollyoaks. Poem and pics below!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2156\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130238\/MLR1a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130238\/MLR1a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130238\/MLR1a.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2157\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130550\/MLR2-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130550\/MLR2-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130550\/MLR2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2158\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130559\/MLR3-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130559\/MLR3-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130559\/MLR3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2159\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130608\/MLR4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130608\/MLR4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/05\/24130608\/MLR4.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>All Colours, All Pride &#8211; a group poem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pride smells nice, like lavender<br \/>\npillow spray that makes you sleep.<br \/>\nPride is calming,<br \/>\na mix of blue and red.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is dyed lilac hair.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is violets,<br \/>\nand sunflowers,<br \/>\nroses<br \/>\nand dandelions,<br \/>\nPride is daisies.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is yellow blonde hair.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is blood and rage and danger<br \/>\nand balloons.<br \/>\nPride is blush<br \/>\nand nail polish<br \/>\nand lipstick<br \/>\nand eyeshadow<br \/>\nand jasper.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is a red pen.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is a blue sea ocean,<br \/>\ncalm and relaxed.<br \/>\nPride is a clear blue sky.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is sad and upset.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is the blue stripes in the trans flag.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is blue stars and seagulls,<br \/>\nPride is the police,<br \/>\nPride is drowning and depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is cold and winter.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is orange, like Garfield.<br \/>\nPride is a Minion.<br \/>\nPride is confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is the colour of fruits, vegetables,<br \/>\ndrinks.<\/p>\n<p>Pride is all around,<br \/>\nWherever you are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive thanks to Michael Lee Richardson for his amazing LGBTQI+ Pride workshop with a group of our brilliant S2 pupils. They had such a great time working on blackout poems, creating a collaborative poem and discussing a range of topics from The Gorbals Vampire to storylining for Hollyoaks. Poem and pics below! &nbsp; All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-lochend-community-high-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}