{"id":4055,"date":"2012-04-10T15:37:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2012-04-10T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T15:41:01","slug":"noted-poet-skypes-into-french-seminar-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/04\/10\/noted-poet-skypes-into-french-seminar-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted Poet Skypes into French Seminar Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4056\" style=\"width: 174px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4056\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/04\/PatriceAba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"289\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French\/Algerian poet Patrice Aba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last month, noted French\/Algerian poet <a href=\"http:\/\/patriceaba.fr\/index.html\">Patrice Aba<\/a> visited Prof. <strong>Margaret Langford&#8217;s<\/strong> French 495 seminar via Skype connection as he wrapped up a week\u2019s funded lectureship at Case Western University. He spoke about his life (and artistic inspiration); read selections from his book, <em>Approches \u00e0 Proches en Croche<\/em>; and conversed with the seminar students in French. Prof. Langford and her students were duly impressed by this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His views on life and liberty were amazing and very thoughtful,&#8221; noted student <strong>Elissa Johansson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carol Jeffrey<\/strong> called Aba&#8217;s poetry &#8220;colorful and musical,&#8221; while Prof. Langford considered the event &#8220;inspirational.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meeting a major contemporary poet is an experience I will not soon forget,&#8221; said <strong>Lindsey Ryder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Patrice Aba lives in Chatillon, just outside of Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, noted French\/Algerian poet Patrice Aba visited Prof. Margaret Langford&#8217;s French 495 seminar via Skype connection as he wrapped up a week\u2019s funded lectureship at Case Western University. He spoke about his life (and artistic inspiration); read selections from his book, Approches \u00e0 Proches en Croche; and conversed with the seminar students in French. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/04\/10\/noted-poet-skypes-into-french-seminar-class\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Noted Poet Skypes into French Seminar Class<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":4056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","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=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}