{"id":3069,"date":"2022-03-30T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:53:10","slug":"james-brookes-delivering-lecture-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2022\/03\/30\/james-brookes-delivering-lecture-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"James Brookes Delivering Lecture Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2022\/03\/James-Brookes-Talk-1-225x300.png\" alt=\"James Brookes Talk (1)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2022\/03\/James-Brookes-Talk-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2022\/03\/James-Brookes-Talk-1-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2022\/03\/James-Brookes-Talk-1.png 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><strong>Tonight at 6:30PM, the poet James Brookes (Poetry &#8217;21) will join us (via Zoom webinar) for a discussion of versification and free verse poetry.<\/strong> James will begin by lecturing on the subject but will then take questions from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>James Brookes is\u00a0 a poet from rural Sussex, England. A graduate of the University of Warwick&#8217;s Writing Program, he received an Eric Gregory Award from the UK Society of Authors in 2009 and published a chapbook,\u00a0<em>The English Sweats<\/em>, in the same year. His first collection of poems,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.saltpublishing.com\/products\/sins-of-the-leopard-9781844719662\"><em>Sins of the Leopard<\/em><\/a>, appeared in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. A second collection,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spoils-James-Brookes-author\/dp\/1999930401\"><em>Spoils<\/em><\/a>, was published in 2018.\u00a0James graduated from BU&#8217;s MFA program in 2021; while in the program, he received the Academy of American Poets Prize for his poem <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/2021-least-concern\">&#8220;Least Concern&#8221;<\/a> and was awarded second place in the Fitzgerald Prize for his translation of\u00a0<em>Epigrammata<\/em> by Ausonius (from Latin to English). Recently, his poems have appeared in\u00a0<em>The Hopkins Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Image Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Temenos Academy Review<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Literary Matters.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Those interested in viewing the webinar can click on <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonu.zoom.us\/j\/94613557058?pwd=bWVGWDdWMFNacXErRExFQ1lzQ3I5UT09\">this link<\/a> at 6:30PM EST<\/strong>; no advance registration is required. This virtual event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions about the event can be directed to Annaka Saari at crwr@bu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at 6:30PM, the poet James Brookes (Poetry &#8217;21) will join us (via Zoom webinar) for a discussion of versification and free verse poetry. James will begin by lecturing on the subject but will then take questions from the audience. James Brookes is\u00a0 a poet from rural Sussex, England. A graduate of the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069"}],"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=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}