{"id":1450,"date":"2020-02-07T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2020-03-16T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T15:53:02","slug":"letourneau-university-professor-to-visit-acu-for-poetry-reading-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2020\/02\/07\/letourneau-university-professor-to-visit-acu-for-poetry-reading-event\/","title":{"rendered":"LeTourneau University professor to visit ACU for poetry reading event  CANCELED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1451 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/02\/aaron-brown-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/>THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FALL.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please join us in the Barry and Diane Packer Forum on <\/span><b>Tuesday, March 24, 7:30pm &#8211; 8:30pm, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Brown Library partners with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acu.edu\/on-campus\/undergraduate\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/language-and-literature.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department of Language and Literature<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to bring you an evening poetry reading by Aaron Brown of LeTourneau University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aaron is the author of the prize-winning book of poems, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acacia Road<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Born in Texas, he grew up in the land-locked nation of Chad as the son of missionaries, leaving the country when civil war erupted. Aaron\u2019s poems use stories and imagery to revisit this special place he still considers home. At the same time he conveys a deep respect for the African children who were his childhood playmates and the older people who were teachers and mentors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Al Haley<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, ACU Professor of English, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">notes, \u201cWhat I love about Aaron\u2019s work is how his poems are so beautiful and at the same time physically present and absolutely real. Aaron is able to use words to put you at dawn in a field of saltgrass and you feel the wind sweeping over you. Ah, Africa! It\u2019s a kind of poetry that awakens the listener, makes them lean forward, and attend closely as new landscapes open up in the imagination. This will be a reading people talk about afterwards.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can learn more about Aaron and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acacia Road<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/englewoodreview.org\/aaron-brown-acacia-road-poems-review\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">review<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2020\/02\/07\/letourneau-university-professor-to-visit-acu-for-poetry-reading-event\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to read more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FALL. Please join us in the Barry and Diane Packer Forum on Tuesday, March 24, 7:30pm &#8211; 8:30pm, as Brown Library partners with the Department of Language and Literature to bring you an evening poetry reading by Aaron Brown of LeTourneau University.\u00a0 Aaron is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}