{"id":4142,"date":"2015-10-21T00:50:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/south-carolina-poet-susan-meyers-presents-reading-nov-3\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:49:36","slug":"south-carolina-poet-susan-meyers-presents-reading-nov-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/south-carolina-poet-susan-meyers-presents-reading-nov-3\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina poet Meyers presents reading Nov. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19724\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Susan-Meyers-courtesy-of-The-Post-and-Courier-sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19724\" class=\"wp-image-19724 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Susan-Meyers-courtesy-of-The-Post-and-Courier-sized-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Meyers courtesy of The Post and Courier\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of The Post and Courier. Used with permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Susan Laughter Meyers, a poet from Givhans, S.C., will present a poetry reading Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Furman Hall 214 (McEachern Lecture Hall) on the Furman University campus.<\/p>\n<p>The reading is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Furman\u2019s Department of English. The event is part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program.<\/p>\n<p>Meyers is the author of two full poetry collections: <em>My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass<\/em> (Editors\u2019 Prize, Cider Press Review, 2013) and <em>Keep and Give Away<\/em> (SC Poetry Book Prize, University of South Carolina Press, 2006).<\/p>\n<p>Her poetry has also been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including <em>The Southern Review<\/em>, <em>Crazyhorse<\/em>, and <em>Prairie Schooner<\/em>. Awards include fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) and the SC Academy of Authors.<\/p>\n<p>A longtime writing instructor, Meyers has a master\u2019s degree in creative writing from Queens University (Charlotte, N.C.).<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Dr. William Aarnes in the Department of English at (864) 294-3159.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Laughter Meyers, a poet from Givhans, S.C., will present a poetry reading Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in McEachern Lecture Hall on campus.\u00a0The CLP reading is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by Furman\u2019s Department of English. Meyers is the author of two full poetry collections: <em>My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass\u00a0<\/em>and <em>Keep and Give Away.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}