{"id":6650,"date":"2013-12-10T15:37:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:37:59","slug":"alice-fogel-nhs-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/12\/10\/alice-fogel-nhs-poet-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Fogel\u2014NH&#8217;s Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6651\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6651\" alt=\" English faculty member and NH's newest poet laureate, Alice Fogel\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2013\/12\/Alice-Fogel.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"276\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">English faculty member and NH&#8217;s newest poet laureate, Alice Fogel (Will Wrobel photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>English Lecturer <strong>Alice Fogel<\/strong> was recently named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nh.gov\/nharts\/artsandartists\/poetlaureate.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Hampshire&#8217;s poet laureate<\/a>. She begins\u00a0 her five-year term in January 2014 and will serve as an ambassador for all poets in New Hampshire and work to heighten the visibility and value of poetry in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Her books include <em>Be That Empty<\/em> (2008), a national poetry bestseller, and <em>Strange Terrain<\/em> (2009), on how to appreciate poetry without \u201cgetting\u201d it. Her newest book,<em> Interval: Poems Based upon Bach\u2019s Goldberg Variations<\/em>, won the <a href=\"http:\/\/schaffnerawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature<\/a>, and is forthcoming from Schaffner Press.<\/p>\n<p>Fogel joins an impressive list of former New Hampshire poets laureate that includes Walter Butts, Patricia Fargnoli, Marie Harris, Donald Hall, Cynthia Huntington, Jane Kenyon and Maxine Kumin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Lecturer Alice Fogel was recently named New Hampshire&#8217;s poet laureate. She begins\u00a0 her five-year term in January 2014 and will serve as an ambassador for all poets in New Hampshire and work to heighten the visibility and value of poetry in the state. Her books include Be That Empty (2008), a national poetry bestseller, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/12\/10\/alice-fogel-nhs-poet-laureate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alice Fogel\u2014NH&#8217;s Poet Laureate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":6651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[484,432,413],"class_list":["post-6650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-english","tag-faculty","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650","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=6650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6676,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions\/6676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}