{"id":2487,"date":"2018-03-12T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2018-03-12T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:43:51","slug":"jacob-strautmann-awarded-artistic-fellowship-from-the-massachusetts-cultural-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2018\/03\/12\/jacob-strautmann-awarded-artistic-fellowship-from-the-massachusetts-cultural-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Strautmann Awarded MCC Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2018\/03\/12\/jacob-strautmann-awarded-artistic-fellowship-from-the-massachusetts-cultural-council\/unnamed\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/unnamed-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2488 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/unnamed-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/unnamed-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/unnamed-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/unnamed-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2018\/02\/unnamed.jpg 1356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jacob Strautmann (Poetry &#8217;00) has been awarded a<span>\u00a0Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) Artistic Fellowship!\u00a0 The MCC committee reviewed\u00a0poems from his forthcoming book\u00a0<i>The Land of the Dead is Open for Business<\/i>\u00a0(Four Way Books, Spring 2020!).\u00a0Visit\u00a0Jake&#8217;s MCC Artist Fellowship Page\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massculturalcouncil.org\/gallery\/artistDetail.asp?App=20182854\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0To read more about the fellowship, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massculturalcouncil.org\/programs\/artistfellows.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Finalists of the MCC Fellowships\u00a0include alumni Kirun Kapur (also Poetry &#8217;00) and Jill McDonough (Poetry &#8217;98). The fellowship\u00a0recognizes &#8220;exceptional work by Massachusetts artists across a range of disciplines.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since graduating from the program,\u00a0Jake has taught\u00a0undergraduate creative writing at BU.\u00a0 He had this to say about teaching:<\/p>\n<p><em>While my day-job is handling the finances for Boston Playwrights&#8217; Theatre as their Managing Director, I&#8217;ve always found great fulfillment teaching creative writing at Boston University. Starting in 2002, in my thirty-odd classes of Intro to Creative Writing (EN 202) and Writing of Plays (EN 306), I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to find students who keep challenging me, who keep me from settling on one kind of lesson I could repeat each semester. Their insistence that I not be lazy is mirrored in what I&#8217;ve been sure to tell them: no one knows if he or she will be a writer for years and years. The fellowship and the book won&#8217;t make me a better teacher, but I hope they offer my students some proof of the persistence gospel all writing teachers preach.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Jake!<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Strautmann is the Managing Director of the Boston Playwrights&#8217; Theatre.\u00a0In addition, he is currently a contributing editor\u00a0for\u00a0<span><em>Salamander Magazine<\/em>.\u00a0 His<\/span>\u00a0poems have appeared in <em>Forklift, Ohio, Unsplendid, The Harlequin, Salamander Magazine, The Boston Globe, Agni Online, The Appalachian Journal, Solstice, Jam Tarts, Quiddity<\/em> (where he won the Editor\u2019s Prize in Poetry), and <em>Appalachian Heritage<\/em>. His poems are forthcoming in <em>The Southern Humanities Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Strautmann (Poetry &#8217;00) has been awarded a\u00a0Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) Artistic Fellowship!\u00a0 The MCC committee reviewed\u00a0poems from his forthcoming book\u00a0The Land of the Dead is Open for Business\u00a0(Four Way Books, Spring 2020!).\u00a0Visit\u00a0Jake&#8217;s MCC Artist Fellowship Page\u00a0here.\u00a0\u00a0To read more about the fellowship, click here. Finalists of the MCC Fellowships\u00a0include alumni Kirun Kapur (also Poetry &#8217;00) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487"}],"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=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}