{"id":2496,"date":"2012-12-14T16:37:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T21:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/14\/the-wet-collection\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:42:04","slug":"the-wet-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-wet-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of iridescence and memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman English professor Joni Tevis published a collection of essays, <em>The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory<\/em>, in 2007 while living in Minnesota. Tevis\u2019 book found an audience with people who wanted something new, and the paperback version of the book has just been released. The <em>MinnPost<\/em> published an article about the new release and its author.<\/p>\n<p>Tevis joined the Furman English faculty in 2008, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Her writing has appeared in <em>Orion<\/em>, <em>Oxford American<\/em>, <em>Shenandoah<\/em>, <em>Conjunctions<\/em>, <em>AGNI<\/em>, <em>The Bellingham Review<\/em>, <em>North Dakota Quarterly<\/em>, <em>Barrelhouse<\/em>, and elsewhere. In 2006, she was awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant. She is a graduate of Florida State University, and holds M.F.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Houston.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/books\/2012\/12\/fossils-bomb-joni-tevis-writes-different-kind-essay\"><strong>Read the article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman English professor Joni Tevis published a collection of essays, The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory, in 2007 while living in Minnesota. Tevis\u2019 book found an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":2497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}