{"id":17919,"date":"2005-11-23T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T20:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=17919"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:28:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:28:43","slug":"war-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2005\/11\/23\/war-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates and Veterans for Peace present Iraq war poetry reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2005\/11\/72turnerbrian.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2005\/11\/72turnerbrian-180x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Poet Brian Turner\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poet Brian Turner  Brian Turner, author of the Beatrice Hawley Award-winning poetry collection <em>Here Bullet<\/em> (Alice James Books, 2005), will read from his work at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Russell Street, Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Turner earned an M.F.A. degree from the University of Oregon before serving for seven years in the U.S. Army. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Previously, he deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina with the 10th Mountain Division in 1999-2000.<\/p>\n<p>Publishers Weekly describes Turner&#8217;s work as &#8220;straightforward and direct. It highlights the violence and death of the war in a manner little seen elsewhere.&#8221; New York Times Sunday Book Reviewer Joel Brouwer writes: &#8220;His poems about his tour of duty have a hurried quality, as if they had been drafted not back home in tranquil recollection but on the ground, in spare moments between patrols. As a result, his lines can have a terrific immediacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turner&#8217;s poetry has been published in journals, including Poetry Daily and the Georgia Review, and in the Voices in Wartime: The Anthology (White Press, 2005), released in conjunction with the feature-length documentary film of the same name. He lives in Fresno, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Turner&#8217;s Bates reading is cosponsored by the English department and Maine Chapter 001 of Veterans for Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Brian Turner Brian Turner, author of the Beatrice Hawley Award-winning poetry collection Here Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005), will read from his work at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Russell Street, Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_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":[4,133,175,179,32,234],"tags":[1828,3271,4472,9140],"class_list":["post-17919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-creativity","category-justice-poverty","category-language-literature","category-maine-and-new-england","category-teaching-education","tag-brian-turner","tag-english6","tag-iraq-war","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90208,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17919\/revisions\/90208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}