{"id":23166,"date":"2016-09-12T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T19:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=23166"},"modified":"2016-09-12T14:07:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T19:07:21","slug":"award-winning-poet-nezhukumatathil-to-give-reading-at-austin-peay-state-university-on-september-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/12\/award-winning-poet-nezhukumatathil-to-give-reading-at-austin-peay-state-university-on-september-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning poet Nezhukumatathil to give reading at Austin Peay State University on September 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Award-winning author Aimee Nezhukumatathil will be on the campus of Austin Peay State University for a reading of her work on September 15th at 8:00pm in the Morgan University Center, Room 303.<\/p>\n<p>The event, sponsored by Zone 3 Press and the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_358195\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Aimee-Nezhukumatathil.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358195\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-358195\" title=\"Aimee Nezhukumatathil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Aimee-Nezhukumatathil-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Aimee Nezhukumatathil\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-358195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aimee Nezhukumatathil<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Nezhukumatathil is the author of three award-winning poetry collections, including her most recent work, \u201cLucky Fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Published in 2011, \u201cLucky Fish\u201d was the winner of the gold medal in poetry from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for Independent Books.<\/p>\n<p>Her 2007 collection, \u201cAt the Drive-in Volcano,\u201d was the winner of the Balcones Prize, while her 2003 debut collection, \u201cMiracle Fruit,\u201d won the Tupelo Press Prize, ForeWord Magazine\u2019s Book of the Year Award, the Global Filipino Award and was a finalist for the Glasgow Prize and the Asian American Literary Award.<\/p>\n<p>Her most recent chapbook, \u201cLace &amp; Pyrite\u201d is a collaboration of nature poems with poet Ross Gay. The collection represents a year of written correspondence between the two writers as they exchanged poems describing the current state of their home gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Nezhukumatathil is a professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia, where she teaches creative writing and environmental literature. This year, she will serve as the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi\u2019s MFA program in creative writing.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Nezhukumatathil, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aimeenez.net\" >www.aimeenez.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For information on Zone 3 Press, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/zone3\/press\" >www.apsu.edu\/zone3\/press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; Award-winning author Aimee Nezhukumatathil will be on the campus of Austin Peay State University for a reading of her work on September 15th at 8:00pm in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. The event, sponsored by Zone 3 Press and the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is free and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[29122,23,1355,262,825,29123,13401,9989],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-61E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23168,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166\/revisions\/23168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}