{"id":2307,"date":"2011-05-02T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keeneweb.org\/newsline\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2011-05-02T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:13:47","slug":"a-proud-owl-yet-mcnair-is-also-maines-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2011\/05\/02\/a-proud-owl-yet-mcnair-is-also-maines-poet-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"A Proud Owl Yet, McNair is also Maine’s Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wesley McNair \u201963 (Photo by Habib)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On April 20th, 2011, Maine Gov. Paul LePage installed Wesley McNair \u201963<\/strong> as the state’s fourth poet laureate. Recently retired from the University of Maine at Farmington, where he co-founded and directed the Creative Writing Program, McNair plans to use his new status to bring poetry back into everyday life, as it was in days gone by.<\/p>\n

McNair grew up in Claremont, NH, attended KSC, and taught high school and at Colby-Sawyer before moving to Maine in 1986. His latest book is Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems<\/em>, and he has received many awards for his creative work. His work has appeared on NPR\u2019s Weekend Edition<\/em> and The Writer\u2019s Almanac<\/em>, with Garrison Keillor; two editions of The Best American Poetry<\/em>; and more than 50 anthologies. He has authored or edited 18 books, including poetry, nonfiction, and anthologies.<\/p>\n

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On April 20th, 2011, Maine Gov. Paul LePage installed Wesley McNair \u201963 as the state’s fourth poet laureate. Recently retired from the University of Maine at Farmington, where he co-founded and directed the Creative Writing Program, McNair plans to use his new status to bring poetry back into everyday life, as it was in days … Continue reading A Proud Owl Yet, McNair is also Maine’s Poet Laureate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":2308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[413],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}