{"id":6974,"date":"2017-10-11T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T13:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/13\/alum-poet-environmentalist-and-publisher-thomas-rain-crowe-speaks-oct-18\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:58:58","slug":"alum-poet-environmentalist-and-publisher-thomas-rain-crowe-speaks-oct-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/alum-poet-environmentalist-and-publisher-thomas-rain-crowe-speaks-oct-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet, environmentalist, publisher Thomas Rain Crowe &#8217;72 speaks Oct. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poet, environmentalist and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe (Furman Class of 1972) will speak on campus Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. in Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34665\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34665\" class=\"wp-image-34665 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/thomas-rain-crowe-portrait-400x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"448\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/448;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Rain Crowe &#8217;72 will speak Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. in Watkins Room.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAn Evening With Thomas Rain Crowe \u201972\u201d is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Friends of the Furman University Libraries and the Furman Department of English.\u00a0Crowe will read from his work, and share experiences from his life and his time at Furman during 1968-1972.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating Furman, Crowe was the editor of <em>Beatitude<\/em> magazine, served as an organizer of poetry readings in the San Francisco Bay area, and was a member of the \u201cBaby Beats\u201d poetry circle in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Returning home to Western North Carolina, he lived sustainably in his Saluda, N.C. cabin for several years, an experience that resulted in the award-winning memoir <em>Zoro\u2019s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods<\/em> (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Crowe is the founder and editor of the New Native Press, a publishing imprint based in Western North Carolina devoted to publishing authors in translation from around the world. Crowe is a musician and a regular book and music reviewer for national publications. His latest book of poems is <em>Learning to Dance: Selected Love Poems, 1975-2015<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/newnative.wordpress.com\">https:\/\/newnative.wordpress.com<\/a> for more information about Crowe. Or contact Jeffrey Makala, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, 864-294-2714, <a href=\"mailto:jeffrey.makala@furman.edu\">jeffrey.makala@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet, environmentalist and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe (Furman Class of 1972) will speak on campus Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. in Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center. \u201cAn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":17452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,52,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-library","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974","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=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}