{"id":97632,"date":"2015-11-03T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=97632"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:12:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:12:27","slug":"bates-presents-a-poet-whose-work-is-described-as-fiercely-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2015\/11\/03\/bates-presents-a-poet-whose-work-is-described-as-fiercely-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates presents a poet whose work is described as &#8216;fiercely beautiful&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/10\/LAL15-Gregerson-H.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-97384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/10\/LAL15-Gregerson-H-900x599.jpg\" alt=\"LAL15-Gregerson-H\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/10\/LAL15-Gregerson-H-900x599.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/10\/LAL15-Gregerson-H-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/10\/LAL15-Gregerson-H-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2015\/10\/LAL15-Gregerson-H.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>A Language Arts Live event this week features the author of &#8220;dizzyingly ambitious and fiercely beautiful&#8221; poetry (<em>The Atlantic<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Linda Gregerson, a much-honored author of several collections of poetry, reads from her work at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. Her books will be available for purchase and signing.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the English department at Bates, the event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-753-6963.<\/p>\n<p>Gregerson&#8217;s collections include this year&#8217;s <em>New and Selected Poems<\/em>; <em>Magnetic North<\/em>, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award; and 2003&#8217;s <em>Waterborne<\/em>, which won a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Gregerson, a much-honored author of several collections of poetry, reads from her work at Bates College on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":97384,"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":[11010],"tags":[178,7039],"class_list":["post-97632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-language-arts-live","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97632","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=97632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97633,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97632\/revisions\/97633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}