{"id":7581,"date":"2025-09-24T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?p=7581"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:50:36","slug":"deep-water-threshold-with-fog-by-myronn-hardy-portland-press-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/2025\/09\/24\/deep-water-threshold-with-fog-by-myronn-hardy-portland-press-herald\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep water: \u2018Threshold with Fog,\u2019 by Myronn Hardy \u2014\u00a0Portland Press Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In July, new work from Associate Professor of English Myronn Hardy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2025\/07\/10\/deep-water-threshold-with-fog-by-myronn-hardy\/\">featured as the poem of the week in the <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/a>. Megan Grumbling, the curator of the <em>Press Herald<\/em>\u2019s series, describes the poem titled \u201cThreshold with Fog\u201d as \u201chazy\u201d and praises Hardy\u2019s imagery. \u201cI love this poem\u2019s vivid, dream-like imagery, and how it cross-fades between scenes, leaving us feeling as lyrically displaced and uncertain as the speaker,\u201d Grumbling writes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardy finished writing \u201cThreshold with Fog\u201d about a year ago. It\u2019s a busy time for him, poetrywise.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m currently writing poem after poem,\u201d he says. As yet, he doesn\u2019t have a new collection in mind. \u201cI don\u2019t know if a new collection is forming. This usually takes years to discover.\u201d HIs inspiration, he says, was, \u201cthinking about being lost in the Leuthold Forest Reserve. And what it may mean to be found and guided by a stranger.\u201d (Leuthold Forest Reserve is in the wilds of Maine, southwest of Jackman.)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardy\u2019s most recent poetry collection, <em>Aurora Americana <\/em>(2023), was called \u201ca clear-eyed vantage of America\u201d by Rebecca Morgan Frank in her review for the Poetry Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, new work from Associate Professor of English Myronn Hardy was featured as the poem of the week in the Portland Press Herald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1283,"featured_media":7584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":["myronn-e-hardy"],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4115],"tags":[4202,4203,4119],"class_list":["post-7581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","tag-myronn-hardy","tag-poetry","tag-portland-press-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7585,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions\/7585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}