{"id":93,"date":"2012-04-15T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/ctfb\/?p=93"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:17:42","slug":"smiththompson-poetry-reading-april-3-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/2012\/04\/15\/smiththompson-poetry-reading-april-3-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith\/Thompson Poetry Reading April 3, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of National Poetry Month, the Alabama Center for the Book along with University of Alabama Libraries and the Alabama Writers&#8217; Forum hosted a poetry reading April 3 in Gorgas Library. Returning to their creative roots, two Master of Fine Arts graduates from the University of Alabama, Jeanie Thompson and Abraham Smith read their poetry to a large audience of close to 100 students, faculty, staff, and friends of the poets.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson and Smith, who graduated in 1977 and 2004, respectively, were both recently selected as the 2012 Alabama State Council on the Arts literature fellows.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers&#8217; Forum, read selections, for the first time, from her developing new book, &#8220;The Myth of W-a-t-e-r&#8221;, which delves into the life of Alabama native Helen Keller.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, an English professor at UA and assistant editor of Slash Pine Press, performed a variety of his poems.<\/p>\n<p>Both Thompson and Smith will perform another reading in Montgomery on April 21 in the poetry tent at the Alabama Book Festival.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of National Poetry Month, the Alabama Center for the Book along with University of Alabama Libraries and the Alabama Writers&#8217; Forum hosted a poetry reading April 3 in Gorgas Library. Returning to their creative roots, two Master of Fine Arts graduates from the University of Alabama, Jeanie Thompson and Abraham Smith read their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12084],"tags":[23545],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-poetry-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/cftb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}