{"id":9957,"date":"2017-04-24T11:22:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=9957"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:22:59","slug":"hirt-00-leads-community-poetry-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2017\/04\/24\/hirt-00-leads-community-poetry-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Hirt \u201900 leads community poetry class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2017\/04\/24\/hirt-00-leads-community-poetry-class\/david-hirt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9958\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9958\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/04\/David-hirt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a>Brother David Hirt \u201900<\/strong> is a Capuchin Brother at Capuchin Community Services in Milwaukee, WI. He also leads a poetry class at The House of Peace, a community center in one of Milwaukee\u2019s most distressed areas.\u00a0 The class offers encouragement and direction for members of the north side community to express themselves through poetry.\u00a0\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em><em>Brother David&#8217;s interest in poetry began in high school in the 1990s, and he sharpened his skills at Wabash\u00a0College\u00a0in\u00a0Crawfordsville, Ind. He leans toward meditative, religious and nature poetry, but sometimes indulges his fun side. &#8220;My &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; Christmas carols are quite popular among my friends,&#8221; he said.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>David was a double major in English and Theater. After Wabash, David completed an MFA degree in theater scenic design at Wayne State University, a Master&#8217;s of Divinity degree from Catholic Theological Union, and a Master&#8217;s degree in Spirituality at Creighton University. \u00a0He is the Campus Minister and Spiritual Director at St. Lawrence Seminary High School in Mt. Calvary, WI.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother David Hirt \u201900 is a Capuchin Brother at Capuchin Community Services in Milwaukee, WI. He also leads a poetry class at The House of Peace, a community center in one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/04\/David-hirt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9961,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}