{"id":826,"date":"2011-11-09T21:58:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T02:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2011-11-11T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:02:06","slug":"elizabeth-willis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Willis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/elizabeth_willis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-827 alignleft\" title=\"Elizabeth Willis\" src=\"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/elizabeth_willis-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/elizabeth_willis-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/elizabeth_willis.jpg 531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A few weeks ago, in need of a poetry fix, I wandered into the <a href=\"http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/poetryroom\/\">Woodberry Poetry Room<\/a> at Harvard and heard <a href=\"http:\/\/epc.buffalo.edu\/authors\/willis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Willis<\/a> read poems from her new book, <em>Address<\/em>. I was glad to have stopped in. Willis&#8217; poems struck me as austere, precise and direct, but built upon a smoldering fire. Her delivery was beautiful: pure, quiet, <em>committed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>From the reading, the most memorable for me was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/5770\">anaphora<\/a>-driven <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/BR36.2\/elizabeth_willis.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Witch<\/a>. Hearing it read by Willis live was worth the price of admission (despite the fact that admission was free!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epc.buffalo.edu\/authors\/fraser\/\">Kathleen Fraser<\/a> read with Willis, but I left before hearing her so that I could literally <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">run<\/span> up the street to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgeforum.org\/?p=963\" target=\"_blank\">Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An inspiring night out on the poetry town.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, in need of a poetry fix, I wandered into the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard and heard Elizabeth Willis read poems from her new book, Address. I was glad to have stopped in. Willis&#8217; poems struck me as austere, precise and direct, but built upon a smoldering fire. Her delivery was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}