{"id":470,"date":"2022-09-28T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=470"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:45:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:45:41","slug":"catherine-pierce-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2017\/catherine-pierce-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Pierce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/cpierce_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Pierce\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of <em>The Tornado is the World<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/covers\/tornadoistheworld_sm.jpg\" alt=\"tornadoistheworld sm\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Catherine Pierce returns to the symposium with her third collection of poetry, <em>The Tornado is the World, <\/em>which<em>\u00a0The Rumpus\u00a0<\/em>describes as an &#8220;Ambitious Atlas of Fears<em>.&#8221; W<\/em>inner of the 2017 and 2013 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters awards for poetry, Pierce is co-director of creative writing at Mississippi State University and a frequent symposium participant. Her previous collections of poetry include\u00a0<em>Famous Last Words\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Girls of Peculiar.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/catherinepierce.net\">Catherine Pierce&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2017\/05\/an-ambitious-atlas-of-fears-the-tornado-is-the-world\/\">Review at The Rumpus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of The Tornado is the World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}