{"id":1141,"date":"2015-04-08T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aulibrarynews.wordpress.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2015-04-08T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:46:53","slug":"herrick-features-local-poets-for-national-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/2015\/04\/08\/herrick-features-local-poets-for-national-poetry-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Herrick features local poets for National Poetry Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herrick Library\u00a0is celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/national-poetry-month\/home\">National Poetry Month<\/a> in April by inviting local poets to share their work.<br \/>\nJuliana Gray, Associate Professor of English, has organized a display in Herrick&#8217;s entryway featuring poetry\u00a0by Alfred University faculty\u00a0and students. In addition to poems by Dr. Gray, you will find work by Emrys Westacott (Professor of Philosophy), Heather Hallberg Yanda (Senior Lecturer in English), Ben Howard (Professor Emeritus), and students Julianne Angie, Colby Cotton, and Laneisha McCauley.<br \/>\nJuliana Gray is the\u00a0author of two full-length poetry collections. <em><a title=\"Roleplay\" href=\"http:\/\/aua.sunyconnect.suny.edu:4980\/F\/?func=find-acc&amp;acc_sequence=002902818\">Roleplay<\/a><\/em>, published in 2012 by Dream Horse press\u00a0won the 2010 Orphic Prize and the\u00a0<a title=\"2013 Eugene Paul Nassar Prize \" href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/article\/20140403\/NEWS\/140409644\/10283\/NEWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2013 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize<\/a>. Her\u00a0first book of poetry, <a title=\"Man Under My Skin\" href=\"http:\/\/aua.sunyconnect.suny.edu:4980\/F\/?func=find-acc&amp;acc_sequence=001793380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Man Under My Skin<\/em><\/a>, was published by River City Publishing in 2005.<br \/>\nNational Poetry Month was founded in 1996 by the American Academy of Poets and is celebrated\u00a0in\u00a0April. The goals of the celebration are to\u00a0highlight the legacy and ongoing achievement of American poets, to encourage the reading of poems, to assist teachers in bringing poetry to their classrooms, to bring increased attention to poetry by national and local media, to encourage the publication and distribution\u00a0of poetry books, and to encourage\u00a0support for poets and poetry.<br \/>\nPlease join us in supporting our own, local poets by stopping by to read and enjoy some of their\u00a0work.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/04\/original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1147\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/04\/original.jpg\" alt=\"National Poetry Month\" width=\"430\" height=\"566\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herrick Library\u00a0is celebrating National Poetry Month in April by inviting local poets to share their work. Juliana Gray, Associate Professor of English, has organized a display in Herrick&#8217;s entryway featuring poetry\u00a0by Alfred University faculty\u00a0and students. In addition to poems by Dr. Gray, you will find work by Emrys Westacott (Professor of Philosophy), Heather Hallberg Yanda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,10,11,15,16,17,18,19,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}