{"id":1431,"date":"2014-07-11T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T18:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2014-07-11T17:14:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T21:14:44","slug":"welcome-karl-kirchwey-literary-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/07\/11\/welcome-karl-kirchwey-literary-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Karl Kirchwey! + literary links"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re so pleased to welcome BU’s new Creative Writing Program director, Karl Kirchwey, to Boston this month! \u00a0Karl officially started as our director on July 1, and he is coming to us from Bryn Mawr College, where he was the Creative Writing Program Director and Professor of the Arts. \u00a0You can read more about him here<\/a>. \u00a0Welcome, Karl!<\/p>\n

Be sure to mark your calendars for the Favorite Poem Project<\/a>‘s Summer Institute readings next week. \u00a0They’re free and open to the public, all from 3:45 – 4:30.<\/p>\n

635 Commonwealth Ave, Sargent College, Rm. 101<\/p>\n

Mon. July 14: Maggie Dietz<\/a> & Eric McHenry<\/a>
\nTue. July 15: Duy Doan<\/a> & Gail Mazur<\/a>
\nWed. July 16: Carl Phillips<\/a> & Robert Pinsky<\/a><\/p>\n

And now for a few literary links:<\/p>\n

Favorite snacks<\/a> of the great writers. \u00a0(And a few less great ones.)<\/p>\n

Walls and walls of books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I visited this sketchbook library<\/a> two weeks ago. \u00a0Neato.<\/p>\n

It’s (BU alum) Jhumpa Lahiri<\/a>‘s birthday today! \u00a0Happy birthday, Jhumpa.<\/p>\n

It’s also E.B. White’s birthday. \u00a0Check out\u00a0this gem<\/a>\u00a0that he wrote\u00a0with James Thurber. \u00a0Here’s some wisdom from it:<\/p>\n

Let us say you have sat down to write a letter to your lady. There has been a normal amount of preparation for the ordeal, such as clearing a space on the desk \u2026 and the normal amount of false alarms, such as sitting down and discovering that you have no cigarettes. (Note: if you think you can write the letter without cigarettes, it is not love, it is passion.) Finally you get settled and you write the words; \u201cAnne darling.\u201d If you like commas, you put a comma after \u201cdarling\u201d; if you like colons, a colon; if dashes, a dash. If you don\u2019t care what punctuation mark you put after \u201cdarling,\u201d the chances are you are in love \u2014 although you may just be uneducated, who knows?<\/p>\n

And with that, have a wonderful weekend, all!<\/p>\n

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We’re so pleased to welcome BU’s new Creative Writing Program director, Karl Kirchwey, to Boston this month! \u00a0Karl officially started as our director on July 1, and he is coming to us from Bryn Mawr College, where he was the Creative Writing Program Director and Professor of the Arts. \u00a0You can read more about him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1353],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431"}],"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=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}