{"id":62994,"date":"2022-04-09T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=62994"},"modified":"2023-11-25T18:15:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T00:15:37","slug":"matthew-ivan-bennett-reaches-for-life-line-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/matthew-ivan-bennett-reaches-for-life-line-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Ivan Bennett Reaches for Life-Line Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>You probably know Matthew Ivan Bennett from his plays, whether for the stage\u00a0 \u2014 like his 2013 play about gender identity,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/index.php\/erica-at-plan-b-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric(a)<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/index.php\/plan-bs-mesa-verde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mesa Verde<\/a>, which explored the enduring scars of chronic illness \u2014 or for the radio (<a href=\"https:\/\/radiowest.kuer.org\/curiosities\/2021-10-28\/radio-hour-episode-15-sleepy-hollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen here<\/a> for a recording of &#8220;Sleepy Hollow,&#8221; produced by KUER RadioWest and Plan-B Theatre Company).<\/h4>\n<h4>Bennett is also a poet, with his work published by the Western Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, and most recently by<a href=\"https:\/\/unearthedesf.com\/matthew-ivan-bennett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0unearthed<\/a>, the online literary journal published by \u00a0SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.<\/h4>\n<h4>For our Poets in Pajamas series, Bennett has chosen to read two life-line poems, poems that, as he says, &#8220;throw you a life preserver at the right time.&#8221; The first &#8220;The Winds of Fate&#8221; is by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The second is Bennett&#8217;s own, &#8220;A Secret Unkown.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life-Line Poems\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/698272847?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">A SECRET UNKNOWN<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">Peace rings out of us,<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">a bell never struck,<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">changing all of space.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">The space within, it rang\u2014<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">struck with unsaid piece\u2014<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">and bellowed with change.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">Pieces of space, we<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">are wrung and struck through<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">change like abbey bells.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">The belly of space<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">is peace ringing out,<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">unstruck, but changing.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Currently Bennett is working on a theatre project called &#8220;Let Down Your Hair,&#8221; an original play, which will be staged by Wasatch Theatre Company in the spring of 2023.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know Matthew Ivan Bennett from his plays, whether for the stage\u00a0 \u2014 like his 2013 play about gender identity,\u00a0 Eric(a), or Mesa Verde, which explored the enduring scars of chronic illness \u2014 or for the radio (listen here for a recording of &#8220;Sleepy Hollow,&#8221; produced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1687,"featured_media":62995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3702],"tags":[1335],"class_list":["post-62994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literary-arts","category-poets-in-pajamas","tag-matthew-ivan-bennett"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-11-at-10.44.07-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 17:21:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72346,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62994\/revisions\/72346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}