{"id":534,"date":"2016-10-27T08:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/?p=534"},"modified":"2016-10-27T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T09:34:16","slug":"creative-writing-reading-series-jon-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2016\/10\/27\/creative-writing-reading-series-jon-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Writing Reading Series – Jon Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As part of the Autumn Term\u00a0Creative Writing Reading Series<\/a><\/p>\n

University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture<\/p>\n

Proudly presents Jon Thompson\u00a0reading from his new poetry work\u00a0Strange Country<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Fascinated by strangeness that\u2019s made in the U.S.A \u2013 its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past \u2013 Strange Country <\/em>(Shearsman 2016) lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes\/dreamscapes, and to their unaccountable beauty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn <\/em>Strange Country Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of \u2018the traffic of fear\u2019, and bids their speakers join the living\u2026The accomplishment of <\/em>Strange Country begins with the exact measure of its line and its discovered idiom in the face of what may well be termed the present contradictions of a strange country\u2026Here we find the places of a shared identity where history is disguised, lost, or made into fun for all the family. This is a discovery conveyed in a poetry which not only discloses new meanings for these American places, but also bears the darker episodes of a history usually processed off the screen and page.\u201d<\/em> – Kelvin Corcoran<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jon Thompson is a Professor of English at North Carolina State University where he teaches courses in twentieth-century\/contemporary American and British literature. He maintains a particular interest in contemporary poetry and poetics. His current work comes out of his career as a poet, critic and editor. He is the founding editor of the international online journal\u00a0Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics<\/em>, launched in 2001 and also the editor of the single-author poetry series, Free Verse Editions, launched in 2005.<\/p>\n

Thursday 17 November\u00a02016<\/em><\/p>\n

6.30pm at Reid Hall,\u00a0Grande Salle<\/p>\n

4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006 (M\u00e9tro: Vavin)<\/p>\n

RSVP to paris@kent.ac.uk or to the Facebook Event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of the Autumn Term\u00a0Creative Writing Reading Series University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture Proudly presents Jon Thompson\u00a0reading from his new poetry work\u00a0Strange Country Fascinated by strangeness that\u2019s made in the U.S.A \u2013 its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past \u2013 Strange Country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[21640,1225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}