{"id":261,"date":"2022-09-28T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=261"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:23:14","slug":"catherine-pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2020\/catherine-pierce\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Pierce"},"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\/cpierce_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Pierce\" class=\"wp-image-240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/cpierce_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/cpierce_lg-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><figcaption>(photo by Megan Bean \/ \u00a9 Mississippi State University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">author of&nbsp;<strong><em>Danger Days<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, October 23, 7:40 p.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Catherine Pierce returns to the symposium with her brand-new collection, <em>Danger Days<\/em>, released on Oct. 15. In these poems, Pierce stares down the challenges facing our world from environmental hazards to climate change to gun violence and more, yet within the chaos of our times, she also manages to find hope and love. Pierce co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University. Her previous collections include&nbsp;<em>The Tornado Is the World<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Girls of Peculiar<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Famous Last Words.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/catherinepierce.wordpress.com\">Author Website<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poet\/catherine-pierce\">Academy of American Poets<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/dangerdays_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Danger Days cover\" class=\"wp-image-297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/dangerdays_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/dangerdays_lg-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Danger Days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}