{"id":5039,"date":"2013-08-07T13:16:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=5039"},"modified":"2013-08-07T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:16:32","slug":"mike-cole","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=5039","title":{"rendered":"Mike Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In This Moment . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>. . . it may be possible<br \/>\nto devise an aria of<br \/>\nwhat would have seemed<br \/>\nin an earlier context<br \/>\nonly dissimilar mutterings<br \/>\nof a deranged minstrel<br \/>\nwho had been run down<br \/>\nby the emperor\u2019s chariot<br \/>\nand was allowed to sing<br \/>\nonly in the most distant<br \/>\ncorners of the royal<br \/>\ncactus garden where<br \/>\nthe deaf gardener<br \/>\nresting beside a bucket<br \/>\nof red prickly pears<br \/>\nwas moved to tears<br \/>\nby the stories that swirled<br \/>\nin the singer\u2019s black eyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIKE COLE<\/strong> was born in Fresno, California (1948), and graduated from Fresno State College (now California State University Fresno) in 1971 when a Fresno Poetry Renaissance led by Philip Levine was underway.  Over a very sporadic 45-year publications history (due to a 32-year public teaching career), Cole&#8217;s poems have appeared in such journals as <em>Antioch Review<\/em>, <em>Beyond Baroque<\/em>, <em>In the Grove<\/em>, <em>The San Joaquin Review<\/em>, <em>Laurel Review<\/em>, <em>Midland Review<\/em>, <em>Blast Furnace<\/em>, and others.  One of Cole&#8217;s poems appeared in the anthology <em>Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California\u2019s Great Central Valley<\/em>, published by Heyday Books.  Cole&#8217;s first book manuscript, <em>The Encyclopedia of Naught<\/em>, is making the rounds of contests and publishers.  He currently lives in the Sierra Nevada Foothills near Yosemite National Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In This Moment . . . . . . it may be possible to devise an aria of what would have seemed in an earlier context only dissimilar mutterings of a deranged minstrel who had been run down by the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=5039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":5034,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5039","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1jh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5039\/revisions\/5180"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}