{"id":557,"date":"2025-10-10T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2025-10-10T08:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:40:14","slug":"vs-night-mini-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/vs-night-mini-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"VS. Night Mini-Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tonight I’m trying something new: a fighting game and poetry night for students. They can take turns at 4-player arena battles on Power Stone 2<\/em> or team up for 2-player ‘Dramatic Battle’ mode in Street Fighter Alpha 3<\/em> (both from the recently released Capcom Fighting Collection 2<\/em> ). I’m bringing some thematically linked poems for volunteers to read aloud in between bouts. Here they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Wrestling’ by Louise S. Bevington<\/a>
‘Duel’ by Helena Nelson<\/a>
‘The Boxers’ by Michael Longley<\/a>
‘Last Round’ by Kim Addonizio<\/a>
‘Sonnets to Morpheus [“I know kung fu”]’ by John Beer<\/a>
‘Elegy for Bruce Lee’ by W. Todd Kaneko<\/a>
‘Fist of the North Star’ by Kayo Chingonyi<\/a> (available\/first published in Coin Opera 2: Fulminare’s Revenge<\/a><\/em>!)
‘To fight aloud is very brave’ by Emily Dickinson<\/a>
‘Duellum’ (‘The Duel’) by Baudelaire<\/a> (I’ve picked the LeClercq translation)
‘Mortal Combat’ by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight I’m trying something new: a fighting game and poetry night for students. They can take turns at 4-player arena battles on Power Stone 2 or team up for 2-player ‘Dramatic Battle’ mode in Street Fighter Alpha 3 (both from the recently released Capcom Fighting Collection 2 ). I’m bringing some thematically linked poems for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}