{"id":2964,"date":"2012-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/02\/24\/delta-state-universitys-art-department-and-the-division-of-languages-and-literature-sponsors-a-first-tuesday-program\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:28","slug":"delta-state-universitys-art-department-and-the-division-of-languages-and-literature-sponsors-a-first-tuesday-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/02\/delta-state-universitys-art-department-and-the-division-of-languages-and-literature-sponsors-a-first-tuesday-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State University\u2019s Art Department and the Division of Languages and Literature  sponsors a First Tuesday program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"220\" height=\"331\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Greg Alan Brownderville\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2012 Releases\/Greg Brownderville.jpg\" \/>Delta State University&rsquo;s Art Department and the Division of Languages and Literature will sponsor a First Tuesday program presented by Greg Alan Brownderville, on Tuesday, March 6 from 12:10-1:00 p.m. in&nbsp; the Wright Art Gallery on campus. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brownderville teaches creative writing at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo.&nbsp; He will read a selection of poems from his latest book Gust.<\/p>\n<p>Brownderville has published a substantial body of work in journals and magazines such as the Oxford American and Measure. Primarily a poet, he is also a folklorist and a writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and literary criticism. Brownderville was chosen for the 2007 Porter Prize, and is the youngest person ever to receive the award, given annually to a writer with an Arkansas connection. He was nominated on the strength of his book Deep Down in the Delta, a collection of his original poems interspersed with folktales he gathered in Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>Those attending may bring a brown bag lunch. Coffee will be provided.&nbsp; Signed copies of his books will be available for purchase.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>First Tuesday is sponsored by the Art Department &amp; the First Tuesday Committee. Scheduled for the first Tuesday of each month during Fall &amp; Spring semesters from 12:10-1:00 PM.&nbsp; First Tuesday features lectures, readings, and presentations representing diverse perspectives in the arts and humanities.&nbsp;&nbsp; The First Tuesday programs are free and open to the public. For more information, call 662-846-4720.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University\u2019s Art Department and the Division of Languages and Literature will sponsor a First Tuesday program presented by Greg Alan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41072,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/41072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}