{"id":2255,"date":"2015-11-19T20:31:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T04:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2015-11-19T20:31:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T04:31:43","slug":"pacific-northw-visits-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/pacific-northw-visits-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Northwest poet visits campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2015\/11\/PoetColor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2015\/11\/PoetColor.jpg\" alt=\"PoetColor\" width=\"3528\" height=\"2784\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/11\/PoetColor.jpg 3528w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/11\/PoetColor-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/11\/PoetColor-1024x808.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3528px) 100vw, 3528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>By: Rachael Jackson \r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>Christopher DeWeese, Assistant Professor of Poetry at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, visited campus Thursday, Nov. 19 at 4:30 p.m. in Hamersly Library 107. <\/p>\n<p>He read genre-bending poetry sure to evoke curiosity from those that attended.<\/p>\n<p>DeWeese originally hails from Port Townsend, Washington, but he has spent the better part of this last decade teaching and working on his poetry all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>Professor of Literature and Writing Dr. Henry Hughes said in an email to students that DeWeese is, \u201cInfluenced by Russian literature and space travel, and he reads like a meteor shower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His poetry is reminiscent of Transcendentalism, a mid-19th century American movement which focused on the interconnectivity of nature and man, with a modern twist that delves into the realm of science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>DeWeese\u2019s poem \u201cThe Happy Cloud\u201d with accompanying author\u2019s reading can be found on publisher Jubliat\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Reading DeWeese\u2019s poetry and hearing it are two wholly different experiences, through which different meanings can be gathered.<\/p>\n<p>At first, \u201cThe Happy Cloud\u201d may seem like a poem about the separate state of humans and nature, portraying humankind as being in constant battle against Mother Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing him read it also evokes dark worries of humanity\u2019s place in the world, and, on a smaller scale, the individual&#8217;s personal struggles and worldview. <\/p>\n<p>DeWeese\u2019s writing shows the ability of poetry to cross genres just as prose often does. Even for seasoned poetry lovers, this poetry promises something unexpected and modern. <\/p>\n<p>His poetry fulfills a niche that many may be interested in exploring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Rachael Jackson Staff Writer Christopher DeWeese, Assistant Professor of Poetry at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, visited campus Thursday, Nov. 19 at 4:30 p.m. in Hamersly Library 107. He read genre-bending poetry sure to evoke curiosity from those that attended. DeWeese originally hails from Port Townsend, Washington, but he has spent the better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":2308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}