{"id":7289,"date":"2018-03-06T19:04:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/06\/brutal-and-bountiful-greenville-poets-lindy-lee-recalls-upstates-textile-history\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:01:00","slug":"brutal-and-bountiful-greenville-poets-lindy-lee-recalls-upstates-textile-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brutal-and-bountiful-greenville-poets-lindy-lee-recalls-upstates-textile-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Brutal and bountiful: Poet&#8217;s &#8216;Lindy Lee&#8217; recalls Upstate&#8217;s textile history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35754\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35754\" class=\"wp-image-35754 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Kimberly-J-Simms-book-cover-450x337-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 337px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 337\/450;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberly J Simms is a 2002 Furman graduate.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman English graduate (Class of 2002) and poet Kimberly Simms answers questions posed by Paul Hyde of <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ux.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2018\/03\/02\/brutal-and-bountiful-greenville-poets-lindy-lee-recalls-upstates-textile-history\/1037088001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong><\/em> about her collection,\u00a0<em>Lindy Lee: Songs on Mill Hill.\u00a0<\/em>The poetry collection describes the\u00a0hard-scrabble lives of textile mill workers in the early 20th century. Says Simms, &#8220;I hope that these poems will raise interest\u00a0in the untold story of the mill town life just after the turn of the century, but I also hope these poems will help raise awareness for issues that face workers today, especially part-time and temporary workers, as well as workers outside of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simms was the 2016\u00a0Carl Sandburg National Historic Site Writer-In-Residence\u00a0(Flat Rock, N.C.); she is a member of the\u00a0SC Humanities Council\u2019s Speaker\u2019s Bureau\u00a0and a pioneer-turned-curator in the world of poetry slams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman English graduate (Class of 2002) and poet Kimberly Simms answers questions posed by Paul Hyde of The Greenville News about her collection,\u00a0Lindy Lee: Songs on Mill Hill.\u00a0The poetry collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":17788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7289","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\/7289","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=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}