{"id":871,"date":"2024-07-23T21:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T02:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=871"},"modified":"2024-10-05T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T22:36:08","slug":"james-cherry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2024\/james-cherry\/","title":{"rendered":"James E. Cherry"},"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>Between Chance and Mercy<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>Ephemera Prize Judge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 25, 2:10 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James E. Cherry, who hails from Jackson, Tennessee, returns with his third collection of poetry, <em>Between Chance and Mercy<\/em>. He founded the West Tennessee Griot writer&#8217;s collective and considers himself a literary activist. He has previously published the poetry collections <em>Loose Change<\/em> and <em>Honoring the Ancestors<\/em>, as well as the novels <em>The Edge of the Wind<\/em> and <em>Shadow of Light<\/em> and the story collection <em>Still a Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesecherry.com\">author website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/writersforum.org\/between-chance-and-mercy\/\">Alabama Writers&#8217; Forum review<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldliteraturetoday.org\/blog\/interviews\/being-black-america-conversation-james-e-cherry-darlington-chibueze-anuonye\">Interview with World Literature Today<\/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\/jcherry_lg.jpg\" alt=\"James Cherry\" class=\"wp-image-932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/jcherry_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/jcherry_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=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/betweenchanceandmercy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/betweenchanceandmercy.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/07\/betweenchanceandmercy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Between Chance and Mercy<br \/>\nOctober 25, 2:10 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","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\/871","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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}