{"id":263,"date":"2022-09-28T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=263"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:21:38","slug":"sandra-meek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2020\/sandra-meek\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Meek"},"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\/smeek_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Meek\" class=\"wp-image-249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/smeek_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/smeek_lg-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">author of<strong>&nbsp;<em>Still<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, October 23, 2:50 p.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandra Meek returns to the symposium with her seventh book of poems, <em>Still,<\/em>\u00a0a collection of poems on art and natural artifacts that\u00a0<em>Library Journal\u00a0<\/em>haspraised as \u201cequal parts thought-provoking, language-drunk, and innately challenging.\u201d Arranged in four &#8220;cabinets&#8221; mimicking the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities, the collection shows the reader the gleanings of her travels and her reflections on the human and the natrual world. Meek is the author of six previous collections of poetry,\u00a0<em>An<\/em>\u00a0<em>Ecology of Elsewhere,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Road Scatter<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Biogeography<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Burn<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Nomadic Foundations.\u00a0<\/em>She is also the editor of an anthology,\u00a0<em>Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad<\/em>.\u00a0She is\u00a0Co-founding Editor of Ninebark Press, Director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, Poetry Editor of the\u00a0<em>Phi Kappa Phi Forum<\/em>, and Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandrameek.com\">Author Website<\/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=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/still_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Still cover\" class=\"wp-image-295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/still_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/still_lg-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","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\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}