{"id":218,"date":"2022-09-28T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=218"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:55:24","slug":"ashley-m-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2021\/ashley-m-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley M. Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"269\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ajones_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley M. Jones\" class=\"wp-image-193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ajones_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ajones_lg-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of\u00a0<em>Reparations Now!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, October 22, 9:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Ashley M. Jones returns to the symposium with her third collection of poetry <em>Reparations Now!\u00a0<\/em>Her two previous collections are <em>dark \/\/ thing\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Magic City Gospel.\u00a0<\/em>Jones\u00a0serves as the poet laureate of Alabama, the first Black poet to be awarded this honor. She is also a teacher at the Alabama School for the Arts in her native Birmingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ashleymjonespoetry.com\">Ashley Jones&#8217; author site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/09\/08\/1031840999\/ashley-m-jones-alabama-poet-laureate-reparations-now\">NPR Review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors21\/covers\/reparations_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of\u00a0Reparations Now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}