{"id":1208,"date":"2014-03-07T12:17:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2014-03-07T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:19:52","slug":"the-friday-short-list-event-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/03\/07\/the-friday-short-list-event-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Short List: Event Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/03\/index.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/03\/index.jpg\" alt=\"index\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1210 alignleft\" height=\"252\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Happy birthday, Elizabeth Moon!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We have big news at 236 Bay State this week: All of our current fiction writers and poets received a Global Fellowship this year!\u00a0 They can travel and write anywhere they desire in 2014.\u00a0 Congratulations, all!\u00a0 You can read more about that program <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some literary links and events to check out over BU&#8217;s spring break:<\/p>\n<p>Today is the birthday of sci-fi author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Moon\">Elizabeth Moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.com\/event\/vivien_shotwell\/\">Vivian Shotwell<\/a> reads at Harvard Book Store tonight at 7.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a stellar evening: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/03\/04\/poetry-jazz\/\">Poetry &amp; Jazz with Robert Pinsky<\/a> and co. on Tuesday, 3\/11, at 7:30.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonpoetryslam.com\/archives\/4670\">Poetry Slam at the Cantab<\/a> on Wednesday, 3\/12, at 8 (get there by 7:30&#8211;tickets sell out fast!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/02\/28\/the-friday-short-list-2\/\">As promised<\/a> last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.com\/event\/dan_chiasson\/\">Dan Chiasson<\/a> will read at Harvard Book Store on Thursday, 3\/13, at 7:30.<\/p>\n<p>826 Boston hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/826boston.org\/blog\/1095\/join-us-for-literary-jeopardy-at-porter-square-books\">Literary Jeopardy at Porter Square Books<\/a>, also Thursday, 7 &#8211; 9.\u00a0 We&#8217;d love it if you could donate to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gifttool.com\/athon\/OurTeamPage?ID=1983&amp;AID=2602&amp;TID=17645\">BU Write-A-Thon Team<\/a> to help young writers!<\/p>\n<p>And in the spirit of Lent, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/poetry.poetryx.com\/poems\/748\/\">a poem<\/a> I recently discovered by T.S. Eliot, which he wrote shortly after converting to Anglicanism.<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Happy birthday, Elizabeth Moon! We have big news at 236 Bay State this week: All of our current fiction writers and poets received a Global Fellowship this year!\u00a0 They can travel and write anywhere they desire in 2014.\u00a0 Congratulations, all!\u00a0 You can read more about that program here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208"}],"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=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}