{"id":406,"date":"2022-09-28T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=406"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:20:31","slug":"kamilah-aisha-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2018\/kamilah-aisha-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamilah Aisha Moon"},"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\/kmoon_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Kamilah Aisha Moon\" class=\"wp-image-392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/kmoon_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/kmoon_lg-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>Starshine and Clay<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, October 19, 10:30 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kamilah Aisha Moon&nbsp;has been praised by <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> for her second collection of poetry,&nbsp;<em>Starshine and Clay,&nbsp;<\/em>in which she \u201crages against violence in America\u2026 while also finding moments of beauty in nature as well as human kindness.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;She has also written&nbsp;<em>She Has a Name&nbsp;<\/em>and is currently the Assistant Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Agnes Scott College.&nbsp;She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Lamda Literary Award finalist, and&nbsp;was selected by the Poetry Society of America as a New American Poet in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did You Know?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Moon is native of Nashville.<\/li><li>She is a Cave Canem fellow.<\/li><li>Her work has been featured in <em>Best of the Net<\/em>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kamilahaishamoon.org\/about.php\">Author Website<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org\/psa\/poetry\/crossroads\/new_american_poets\/kamilah_aisha_moon\/\">Poetry Society of America<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/starshineandclay_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/starshineandclay_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/starshineandclay_lg-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Starshine and Clay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}