{"id":18748,"date":"2023-05-22T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18748"},"modified":"2023-06-06T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:28:25","slug":"william-heyen-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/william-heyen-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"William Heyen Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">William Heyen (America, b. 1940)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Heyen an American poet, editor, and literary critic who received his BA from the State University of New York at Brockport and earned a doctorate in English from Ohio University. He taught American literature and creative writing at SUNY\u2013Brockport for over 30 years.&nbsp;While touring Germany, Heyen visited a number of sites involved in the Holocaust and, inspired by his family history, he created three volumes of poetry published over the next 32 years. He has been highly lauded, awarded grants from the National Endowment of the Art, Guggenheim, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.5.65.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"18749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.5.65-876x900.webp\" alt=\"Sigmund Abeles, William Heyen, Poet I, 1980-81, Lithograph, 15 3\/4 x 15 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 1995.5.65 \" class=\"wp-image-18749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.5.65-876x900.webp 876w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.5.65-292x300.webp 292w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.5.65-768x789.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.5.65-1495x1536.webp 1495w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.5.65-611x628.jpg 611w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.5.65.webp 1756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sigmund Abeles, <em>William Heyen, Poet I<\/em>, 1980-81, Lithograph, 15 3\/4 x 15 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 1995.5.65 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Heyen (America, b. 1940) Heyen an American poet, editor, and literary&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19247,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18748\/revisions\/19247"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}