{"id":425,"date":"2011-09-19T11:50:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=425"},"modified":"2011-09-19T11:50:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:50:47","slug":"city-aubade-by-vanesha-pravin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2011\/09\/19\/city-aubade-by-vanesha-pravin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;City Aubade&#8221; by Vanesha Pravin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Birds strung on high-tension wires,<br \/>\nmy tongue heavy in its thick hot nest,<br \/>\nI slip out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; the opening lines of\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2303646\">City Aubade<\/a>&#8221; by <strong>Vanesha Pravin<\/strong> (MFA &#8217;09),\u00a0 appearing at Slate as this week&#8217;s Tuesday Poem pick. There is an interesting appendage following the text of the poem proper, a discussion where Pravin dove into the comments section to engage regular forum contributors and other readers in an exchange of interpretations and insights.\u00a0 Pravin has poems forthcoming in <em>Callaloo <\/em>and <em>Many Mountains Moving, and <\/em>t<em>eaches at the University of California-Merced<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds strung on high-tension wires, my tongue heavy in its thick hot nest, I slip out. &#8212; the opening lines of\u00a0 &#8220;City Aubade&#8221; by Vanesha Pravin (MFA &#8217;09),\u00a0 appearing at Slate as this week&#8217;s Tuesday Poem pick. There is an interesting appendage following the text of the poem proper, a discussion where Pravin dove into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"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\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}