{"id":1787,"date":"2015-01-27T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2015-01-27T09:50:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:50:03","slug":"renee-emersons-book-a-finalist-for-2014-julie-suk-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/01\/27\/renee-emersons-book-a-finalist-for-2014-julie-suk-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Renee Emerson&#8217;s book a finalist for 2014 Julie Suk Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/11\/renee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/11\/renee.jpg\" alt=\"renee\" width=\"257\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/11\/renee.jpg 428w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/11\/renee-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that Renee Emerson&#8217;s book, <em>Keeping Me Still,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacarpress.com\/readers\/\"><\/a><\/em>\u00a0is a finalist for the 2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacarpress.com\/readers\/\">Jacar Press\u00a0Julie Suk Award<\/a>! \u00a0The award is given for the best poetry book published by an independent press. \u00a0This exquisite collection&#8211;some of which we had the pleasure of hearing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/calendar\/robert-lowell-memorial-lectures\/\">Lowell Reading<\/a> last fall&#8211;is full of tender and unexpected glimpses into relationships between sisters, mother and daughter, and husband and wife. \u00a0Buy your copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Keeping-Me-Still-Renee-Emerson\/dp\/1941058116\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Renee! \u00a0We&#8217;re so proud of you and will be keeping our fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p>Renee Emerson is the author of\u00a0<em>Keeping Me Still<\/em>\u00a0(Winter Goose Publishing 2014). Her poetry has been published in\u00a0<em>32 Poems, Christianity and Literature, Indiana Review, Literary Mama, Southern Humanities Review, storySouth,<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere. Renee teaches creative writing and composition at a small Christian university in Georgia, where she lives with her husband and daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that Renee Emerson&#8217;s book, Keeping Me Still,\u00a0is a finalist for the 2014\u00a0Jacar Press\u00a0Julie Suk Award! \u00a0The award is given for the best poetry book published by an independent press. \u00a0This exquisite collection&#8211;some of which we had the pleasure of hearing at the Lowell Reading last fall&#8211;is full of tender and unexpected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,4162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787"}],"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=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}