{"id":208117,"date":"2020-11-03T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=208117"},"modified":"2020-11-09T15:22:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:22:34","slug":"poet-jenny-xie-visits-campus-virtually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2020\/11\/03\/poet-jenny-xie-visits-campus-virtually\/","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":208126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department","category-events","category-7_homepage-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208120,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208117\/revisions\/208120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}