{"id":1729,"date":"2014-12-12T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2014-12-12T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:02:46","slug":"erin-belieus-latest-reviewed-in-ny-times-and-literary-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/12\/12\/erin-belieus-latest-reviewed-in-ny-times-and-literary-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Belieu&#8217;s latest reviewed in the NY Times, and Literary Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/12\/erin-belieu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/12\/erin-belieu.jpg\" alt=\"erin-belieu\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1745\" height=\"370\" width=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/12\/erin-belieu.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/12\/erin-belieu-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We were delighted to see that the latest poetry collection by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/erin-belieu\">Erin Belieu<\/a>, <em>Slant Six<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Producte\/9781556594717\/slant-six.aspx\"> <\/a>(Copper Canyon Press),<em> <\/em>was reviewed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/10\/books\/slant-six-erin-belieus-latest-poetry-collection.html\">first page of the Arts section<\/a> of the <em>New York Times<\/em>!\u00a0 <em>Times <\/em>critic Dwight Gardner was largely favorable in his review, saying, &#8220;It\u2019s got more smoke, more confidence, more wit and less tolerance for obscurity. Her crisp free verse has as many subcurrents as a magnetic field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Producte\/9781556594717\/slant-six.aspx\">here<\/a> to buy a copy.<\/p>\n<p>This was the last week of classes here at BU, and we had our last Black Box Reading of the semester on Tuesday, and went to an <em>AGNI<\/em> party (with readings) on Thursday.\u00a0 We&#8217;re looking forward to even more program parties over the weekend, and wish you all the very best of luck in your final papers and exams!<\/p>\n<p>Now for some Friday links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatshouldireadnext.com\/\">What you should read next.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently read Jeffrey Eugenides&#8217; hugely entertaining\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/16\/books\/review\/the-marriage-plot-by-jeffrey-eugenides-book-review.html?pagewanted=all\">The Marriage Plot<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/why-the-marriage-plot-need-never-get-old\">marriage plot need never get old. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Truman Capote&#8217;s poignant short story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailthouforth.com\/2009\/12\/christmas-memory.html\">&#8220;A Christmas Memory.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/11\/five-subway-haiku\/?src=recg\">subway haiku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let go of the potato?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2014\/12\/guess-that-foreign-idiom\/383654\/\">foreign idiom quiz<\/a> from the <em>Atlantic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/12\/15\/genesis-according-george-segal\">Robert Pinsky<\/a> in the <em>New Yorker <\/em>this week.<\/p>\n<p>And this week&#8217;s fiction, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/12\/15\/savage-breast\">Elizabeth McKenzie<\/a>, which I was quite moved by.<\/p>\n<p>Why you should <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2014\/12\/never-date-a-writer-youll-end-up-as-material.html\">never date a writer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A couple Advent poems: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryarchive.org\/poem\/expectans-expectavi\">&#8220;Expectans Expectavi&#8221; by Anne Ridler<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/index.php?date=2007\/11\/09\">&#8220;The Minor Prophets&#8221; by Michael Lind.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy holidays, all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We were delighted to see that the latest poetry collection by Erin Belieu, Slant Six (Copper Canyon Press), was reviewed on the first page of the Arts section of the New York Times!\u00a0 Times critic Dwight Gardner was largely favorable in his review, saying, &#8220;It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,858,4162,4163,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729"}],"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=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}