{"id":5,"date":"2011-11-07T15:53:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:54:32","slug":"celebrate-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/2011\/11\/07\/celebrate-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2011\/11\/perry-author-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/files\/2011\/11\/perry-author-photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Perry, author of <em>Nine Acres <\/em>and editor<em> <\/em>of the <em>Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review<\/em>, will be reading from his work on Wednesday, November 9<sup>th<\/sup>, 2011, at the Hammes Bookstore on Notre Dame\u2019s campus. The reading begins at 7:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Perry\u2019s work <em>Nine Acres<\/em>\u00a0(APR\/Copper Canyon, 2011) won the 2011 American Poetry Review\/Honickman First Book Prize. His manuscript was chosen from more than 1,000 entries. Perry earned Master&#8217;s degrees from Boston University and Indiana University. He lives with his family in rural southside Virginia.\u00a0In an interview with John Dudley on his work and teaching at Hampden-Sydney College, Perry states, &#8220;Teaching at Hampden-Sydney has provided me with a rare opportunity&#8211;the chance to learn and think at the highest levels, in the heart of rural America. This unusual combination plays a major role in the book: the poems attempt to understand self-sustainability on all levels, on the land, with each other, in the mind and heart, and, perhaps, in the spirit as well. <em>Nine Acres<\/em> takes as its starting place the classic farm manual, <em>Five Acres and Independence<\/em> by M.G. Kains, so perhaps it is a metaphorical &#8216;independence&#8217; that I am after\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reading is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.nd.edu\/creative-writing\/events\/nathaniel-perry\/\">Perry&#8217;s link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Perry, author of Nine Acres and editor of the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, will be reading from his work on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011, at the Hammes Bookstore on Notre Dame\u2019s campus. The reading begins at 7:30 PM. Nathaniel Perry\u2019s work Nine Acres\u00a0(APR\/Copper Canyon, 2011) won the 2011 American Poetry Review\/Honickman First Book Prize. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mfa-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}