{"id":298541,"date":"2010-02-09T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T19:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2010-02-09T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T19:59:58","slug":"hunter-professor-named-brooklyn-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/298541","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Professor Named Brooklyn Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Chang, Hunter adjunct professor of English, has been chosen over 21 other applicants to become Brooklyn\u2019s next poet laureate.\u00a0 Borough President Marty Markowitz announced the news in his State of the Borough address on February 3, citing Chang\u2019s many literary accolades and her commitment to becoming a \u201cpoetic ambassador.\u201d\u00a0 At the event, Chang read her poem \u201cPraise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chang is the author of the collection <em>Half-Lit Houses<\/em> and co-editor of <em>Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Chang, Hunter adjunct professor of English, has been chosen over 21 other applicants to become Brooklyn\u2019s next poet laureate.\u00a0 Borough President Marty Markowitz announced the news in his State of the Borough address on February 3, citing Chang\u2019s many literary accolades and her commitment to becoming a \u201cpoetic ambassador.\u201d\u00a0 At the event, Chang read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}