{"id":869,"date":"2024-07-23T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=869"},"modified":"2024-10-05T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T22:50:20","slug":"christian-j-collier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2024\/christian-j-collier\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian J. Collier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>Greater Ghost&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 26, 11:00 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian J. Collier is a poet from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who comes to the symposium with his debut full-length collection of poems <em>Greater Ghost.<\/em> He has also published the poetry chapbook <em>The Gleaming of the Blade.<\/em> Christian is completing his MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women. His poems have appeared recently in <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, <em>Poetry<\/em>, <em>December<\/em>, and other literary magazines. While at The W, he has served on the editorial staff of <em>Ponder Review<\/em> and <em>Poetry South.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianjcollier.com\">author website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/southernreviewofbooks.com\/2024\/09\/16\/greater-ghost-christian-j-collier-interview\/\">Southern Review of Books review<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/the-gleaming-of-the-blade-christian-j-collier-poems-poetry-collection\/\">Interview at Electric Literature<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/ccollier_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/ccollier_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/ccollier_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/greaterghost.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/greaterghost.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/greaterghost-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Greater Ghost<br \/>\nOctober 26, 11:00 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}