{"id":1041,"date":"2025-08-03T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:22:19","slug":"samyak-shertok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2025\/samyak-shertok\/","title":{"rendered":"Samyak Shertok"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>No Rhododendron<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Samyak Shertok<\/strong>\u00a0is originally from Nepal and now teaches poetry at Mississippi State University. His debut poetry collection,\u00a0<em>No Rhododentdron,\u00a0<\/em>was awarded AWP\u2019s Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and individual poems have appeared in\u00a0<em>Poetry, Kenyon Review, Iowa Rview, Gettysburg Review,\u00a0<\/em>and other magazines, and he has poems included in the anthologies\u00a0<em>Best New Poets 2023<\/em>, Best New Poets 021,\u00a0<em>Attached to the Living World<\/em>: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, and <em>Kavya: Representative Nepali Poetry in English<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samyakshertok.com\">Author Website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/sshertok_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/sshertok_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/sshertok_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/norhododendron.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/norhododendron.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/08\/norhododendron-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Rhododendron<br \/>\nOctober 25, 11am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-32"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}