{"id":2960,"date":"2010-01-10T20:48:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T01:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2010-01-11T21:37:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T02:37:40","slug":"margaret-peggy-rabb-1954-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/margaret-peggy-rabb-1954-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret &#8220;Peggy&#8221; Rabb (1953 &#8211; 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, I was at the funeral, burial, and an informal gathering of friends for the poet and teacher Margaret Rabb who most of us knew as Peggy. Peggy had a rich life much of which was spent on making other peoples lives richer. I knew her as a poet, but also as someone who worked in international health issues, put together documentary film festivals, was a lawyer (not practicing but much informed by her legal education), a mother, and an all round creative person and teacher who brought out the creativity in others. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/newsobserver\/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&#038;pid=138204253\">Her obituary<\/a> tells a part of her story, but it doesn&#8217;t say how hard she worked to complete her dream as a poet and teacher culminating with her last job as the head of the Creative Writing Program at Wichita State University.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Peggy reading two late poems that capture her love of words, word play and of precise observation:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Low Owl Illusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uu-Udyk_9PU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uu-Udyk_9PU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Transvestites in Waukegan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-ysVvVAz0Mo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-ysVvVAz0Mo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, I was at the funeral, burial, and an informal gathering of friends for the poet and teacher Margaret Rabb who most of us knew as Peggy. Peggy had a rich life much of which was spent on making other peoples lives richer. I knew her as a poet, but also as someone who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}