{"id":8,"date":"2015-09-11T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T23:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2015-10-14T21:04:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T04:04:15","slug":"about-inkswarm-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/about-inkswarm-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"About InkSwarm Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>InkSwarm is a blog of the Writer-in-Residence of Kelowna\u2019s Public Art Pollinator Pasture.\u00a0 The writer blogs regularly about thoughts, experiences, and ideas that relate in diverse ways to the <a href=\"http:\/\/borderfreebees.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pollinator Pasture<\/a> project both in Kelowna and, occasionally, in Richmond.\u00a0 The posts may record experiences of events and gatherings of the Pollinator Pasture community, or could riff on facts about bees, or could be poetic meditations on place or plants or art practices such as poetry.\u00a0 The blog is part of the artistic, literary and journalistic recording, development, and enrichment of the Public Art Pollinator Pasture, one artful public face of the project.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Our writer-in-residence for 2015-2016 is Fionncara MacEoin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Fionncara MacEoin<\/strong><\/span> is a Saskatchewan poet currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at UBCO.<\/p>\n<p>MacEoin graduated from University of Saskatchewan with a BA (Honours) in English. She is a graduate of Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming\u2019s Urban Canvas program, and holds a diploma in Graphic Arts and New Media from McKay Career Training.<\/p>\n<p>MacEoin has dedicated much of her creative work to her community. She\u2019s been involved in a number of community arts projects and murals in Saskatoon, and facilitated creative writing workshops at the Saskatoon Correctional Centre as part of the Inspired Minds: All Nations Creative Writing Program.<\/p>\n<p>She has presented her work across Western Canada and participated in writing retreats and workshops in Saskatchewan and at The Banff Centre. She worked as Programme Assistant at the Sage Hill Writing Experience for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Her poetry has appeared in <em>The Society<\/em>, <em>In Medias Res<\/em>, <em>Transition<\/em> and <em>CV2<\/em>. Recent publications include a chapbook <em>Even the Sky Parts<\/em> (JackPine Press 2011) and <em>Not the First Thing I\u2019ve Missed<\/em> (Thistledown Press, 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InkSwarm is a blog of the Writer-in-Residence of Kelowna\u2019s Public Art Pollinator Pasture.\u00a0 The writer blogs regularly about thoughts, experiences, and ideas that relate in diverse ways to the Pollinator Pasture project both in Kelowna and, occasionally, in Richmond.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/about-inkswarm-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1849,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}