{"id":208091,"date":"2020-11-09T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=208091"},"modified":"2020-11-09T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:24:29","slug":"poet-jenny-xie-reads-poetry-and-has-qa-with-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2020\/11\/09\/poet-jenny-xie-reads-poetry-and-has-qa-with-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Jenny Xie Reads Poetry and Has Q&amp;A with Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Jenny Xie, author of the award-winning volume <em>Eye Level<\/em>, read her poetry to students in Professor <span class=\"il\">Lucy<\/span> McDiarmid&#8217;s Art of Poetry class on October 28.\u00a0 Several faculty members also attended and participated in the Q &amp; A, which lasted for an hour.\u00a0 The students, who had studied Xie&#8217;s poetry for two weeks, asked the poet about the meaning of particular lines and about the &#8220;poetry business.&#8221;\u00a0 Montclair creative writers Marta Lopez (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/\">Department of Spanish and Latino Studies<\/a>) and Michael Robbins (Department of English) agreed with Xie (Visiting Assistant Professor of Written Arts, Bard College) that the different &#8220;tracks&#8221; in today&#8217;s poetry scene, from the more established to the more unconventional, created a rich and stimulating variety of poetries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Jenny Xie, author of the award-winning volume Eye Level, read her poetry to students in Professor Lucy McDiarmid&#8217;s Art of Poetry class on October 28.\u00a0 Several faculty members also attended and participated in the Q &amp; A, which lasted for an hour.\u00a0 The students, who had studied Xie&#8217;s poetry for two weeks, asked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":208092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department","category-7_homepage-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208093,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208091\/revisions\/208093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}