{"id":1186,"date":"2014-03-03T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T21:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2014-03-03T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T21:50:16","slug":"kelly-morse-published-in-brevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/03\/03\/kelly-morse-published-in-brevity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Morse published in Brevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/03\/Morse-Headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/03\/Morse-Headshot-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Morse Headshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/03\/Morse-Headshot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/03\/Morse-Headshot.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great news for Kelly Morse, whose essay, Saigon, was recently published in <em>Brevity: a Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s no room on the sidewalk, never is, no sloped exits. A moat of trash. The man\u2019s breath explodes as he pushes out of potholes, waits for lights amidst the motorbikes; facing forward, his shoulder-blades droop until they seem to rest upon his ribs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the rest of this poetic and evocative essay\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brevitymag.com\/current-issue\/the-saigon-kiss\/\">here<\/a>. \u00a0Congratulations, Kelly!<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Morse returned to Vietnam in 2012 via a Robert Pinsky Global Poetry Fellowship, which allowed her time to write about her previous experiences there as a university teacher in Hanoi. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Alimentum: A Journal of Literature and Food, Side B Magazine, CAB and elsewhere. She works at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where she directs a creative writing and cultural exchange program that brings together students from Russia, the USA, the Middle East and Northern Africa. She is currently working on a cross-genre manuscript that explores linguistic and world-view gaps between Southeast Asian and American cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for Kelly Morse, whose essay, Saigon, was recently published in Brevity: a Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. &#8220;There\u2019s no room on the sidewalk, never is, no sloped exits. A moat of trash. The man\u2019s breath explodes as he pushes out of potholes, waits for lights amidst the motorbikes; facing forward, his shoulder-blades droop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}