{"id":1278,"date":"2026-07-26T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:10:13","slug":"angela-ball-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2026\/angela-ball-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>author of <em>Steeplechase<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angela Ball returns to they symposium with her collection of poetry, <em>Steeplechase.<\/em> She is a longtime professor of poetry at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she has previously served as the Director of the Center for Writers and poetry editor for the <em>Mississippi Review.<\/em>  Her previous poetry collections include <em>Talking Pillow<\/em>, <em>Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds,<\/em> <em>Museum of the Revolution, Possession, Quartet, Kneeling Between Parked Cars, <\/em>and the anthology<em> Afterlives of the New York School of Poets.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"\/\/www.angelaballpoetry.com\">Author Website<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\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\/2026\/07\/aball_lg.jpg\" alt=\"White woman with long curly blond hair, black shirt and necklace\" class=\"wp-image-1246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/aball_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/aball_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=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/steeplechase.jpg\" alt=\"Light blue cover with shite drawings of many different kinds of steeples and dark blue title Steeplechase: poems Angela Ball.\" class=\"wp-image-1250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/steeplechase.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/steeplechase-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steeplechase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[36,47,46],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-33","tag-mississippi-writer","tag-poetry","tag-university-of-southern-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","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=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}