{"id":1228,"date":"2014-03-14T16:59:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2014-03-14T17:08:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T21:08:24","slug":"happy-friday-from-bu-creative-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/03\/14\/happy-friday-from-bu-creative-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday from BU Creative Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment1229\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/03\/anne-sexton-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment1229\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/03\/anne-sexton-1.jpg\" alt=\"anne-sexton-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1229 \" height=\"300\" width=\"230\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment1229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poet Anne Sexton.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hello all!<\/p>\n<p>Hope your spring breaks have been lovely.\u00a0 Despite campus being pretty quiet, we kept busy here in CW preparing for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/calendar\/\">Annual Faculty Reading<\/a> and Global Fellowship voyages.\u00a0 I also had a chance to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/03\/12\/poemjazz-in-the-boston-globe\/\">PoemJazz<\/a>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/10C084BADA828A5F85-literary\">Literary Jeopardy\/a Steve Almond reading<\/a>, a <em>Ulysses<\/em> discussion group, and two live comedy shows. Whew!\u00a0 Did you go to any literary events over spring break?\u00a0 We&#8217;d love to hear about it&#8211;leave a comment below!\u00a0 Here are some links for your Friday:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Woody Allen talks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1550\/the-art-of-humor-no-1-woody-allen\">humor writing<\/a> in <em>The Paris Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/16\/writers-wakeup-times-literary-productivity-visualization\/\">Sleep habits<\/a> of famous writers.<\/p>\n<p>One of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/177960\">favorite poems<\/a> that was performed at PoemJazz (scroll down to &#8220;Street Music&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Recommendations for <a href=\"http:\/\/biblioklept.org\/2010\/06\/16\/how-to-read-james-joyces-ulysses-and-why-you-should-avoid-how-to-guides-like-this-one\/\">how to read <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/biblioklept.org\/2010\/06\/16\/how-to-read-james-joyces-ulysses-and-why-you-should-avoid-how-to-guides-like-this-one\/\">Ulysses<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Girls and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/comment\/2014\/03\/dont-ban-bossy.html\">the word &#8220;bossy.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A former student (and huge Dave Eggers fan) shared <a href=\"http:\/\/victormentality.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/short-story-by-dave-eggers.html\">this story<\/a> with me.<\/p>\n<p>Have a fun weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello all! Hope your spring breaks have been lovely.\u00a0 Despite campus being pretty quiet, we kept busy here in CW preparing for the upcoming Annual Faculty Reading and Global Fellowship voyages.\u00a0 I also had a chance to go to PoemJazz, Literary Jeopardy\/a Steve Almond reading, a Ulysses discussion group, and two live comedy shows. Whew!\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[441,507],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228"}],"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=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}