{"id":13556,"date":"2022-05-01T11:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T15:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/?p=13556"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:57:43","slug":"lock-her-up-by-tina-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/01\/lock-her-up-by-tina-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCK HER UP by Tina Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LOCK HER UP by Tina Parker (Accents Publishing, 2021) is a Medal Provocateur Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Medal Provocateur is given to the best on the frontier of poetry\u2014the experimental, the innovative, the daring and stunning, the impromptu in technique and voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Eric Hoffer Book Award has truly become one of the top literary awards for independent books, involving over 2,500 books, 25 all-inclusive categories, and nearly 200 judges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complete list of finalists can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hofferaward.com\/Medal-Provocateur-finalists.html#.YnEkptrMKUk\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hofferaward.com\/Medal-Provocateur-finalists.html#.YnEkptrMKUk\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>Lock Her Up<\/em>, Tina Parker gives voice to the women from the not too distant past who were not allowed to make decisions about their own bodies and mental health. In this thought-provoking collection, Parker brings to life three characters and highlights their stories through poems and research. We grow in care and concern about Mattie M. Roberts, Rachel Wells and Emma Darby and are able to relate to their struggles and circumstances.&nbsp;<em>Lock Her Up<\/em>&nbsp;is a deeply moving book and Accents Publishing is proud to bring it to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about the book or to order a copy, please visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/accents-publishing.com\/lockherup.html\">http:\/\/accents-publishing.com\/lockherup.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOCK HER UP by Tina Parker (Accents Publishing, 2021) is a Medal Provocateur Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Award. The Medal Provocateur is given to the best on the frontier of poetry\u2014the experimental, the innovative, the daring and stunning, the impromptu in technique and voice. The Eric Hoffer Book Award has truly become one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,653,651,649,650],"class_list":["post-13556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-accents-publishing","tag-award","tag-lock-her-up","tag-poetry","tag-tina-parker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13559,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions\/13559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}