{"id":2935,"date":"2023-10-30T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2024-02-03T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T15:49:22","slug":"breakfast-meeting-april-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-april-20-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting April 20, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-april-20-2024\/desi2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2991\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2991\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-april-20-2024\/desi2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/desi2-1.jpeg?fit=744%2C921&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"744,921\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"desi2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/desi2-1.jpeg?fit=474%2C587&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-2991 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/desi2-1.jpeg?resize=205%2C254&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/desi2-1.jpeg?resize=242%2C300&amp;ssl=1 242w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/desi2-1.jpeg?w=744&amp;ssl=1 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #24678d;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Desi Di Nardo has authored <span style=\"color: #000000;\">several poetry collections, and her work has been p<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">ublished in hundreds of journals and anthologies,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0performed at the National Arts Centre, featured on the TTC,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0printed on Starbucks cups, composed into opera, and displayed in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Residences of Canada.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Desi was an editor for universities, writer-in-residence, June Callwood literacy facilitator, TDSB Italian language teacher, and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">the first-ever TDSB poetry instructor. She was an on<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">-air tv host and currently is an English professor at George Brown College. She contributes in curriculum development for post secondary writing courses.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Desi hosted Poetry Parade with Canada&#8217;s Parliamentary Poet Laureate. She conducts in-person and online writing workshops at venues like Stephen Leacock Museum, SickKids Hospital, schools, libraries, art galleries, and retirement homes across Ontario. Her writing was translated into foreign languages and is found in curriculums for schools like Vanier CHS, Michipicoten HS<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">, and the University of Toronto. Desi&#8217;s\u00a0 poetry is included in syllabi for MA English Literature programs in universities abroad such as Thiruvalluvar University and<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0PSGR Krishnammal College for Women in India. Desi was commissioned by Desjardins to appear in commercial and to inspire and create poetry for their corporate brand advertising.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desi Di Nardo has authored several poetry collections, and her work has been published in hundreds of journals and anthologies,\u00a0performed at the National Arts Centre, featured on the TTC,\u00a0printed on Starbucks cups, composed into opera, and displayed in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Residences of Canada.\u00a0 Desi was an editor for universities, writer-in-residence, June Callwood literacy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-april-20-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breakfast Meeting April 20, 2024<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-Ll","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2992,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}