{"id":8120,"date":"2026-07-24T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?p=8120"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:25:19","slug":"myronn-hardy-guggenheim-highlighted-in-portland-press-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/2026\/07\/24\/myronn-hardy-guggenheim-highlighted-in-portland-press-herald\/","title":{"rendered":"Myronn E. Hardy Guggenheim highlighted in Portland Press Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Myronn Hardy, associate professor of English, was one of three Mainers to win the Guggenheim Fellowship for 2026 recently reported in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/04\/15\/3-mainers-win-guggenheim-fellowships\/?copylink=true\"> Portland Press Herald<\/a>.  Fellowships were awarded to 223 people working across 55 fields, according to a release from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Nearly 5,000 people had applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hardy\u2019s Guggenheim is a career prize, celebrating his body of work while supporting future endeavors. Hardy has published six volumes of poetry, most recently,\u00a0<em>Aurora Americana<\/em>.\u00a0His books have received numerous accolades including the PEN\/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award, and the Griot-Stadler Prize for Poetry.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can read more about Bates&#8217; two faculty winners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/30\/two-english-faculty-awarded-guggenheim-fellowship\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myronn Hardy, associate professor of English, was one of three Mainers to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1917,"featured_media":8121,"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,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","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":[4308,4119],"class_list":["post-8120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","tag-guggenheim","tag-portland-press-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120","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\/1917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}