{"id":19196,"date":"2014-02-05T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T15:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=19196"},"modified":"2014-02-11T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T13:48:04","slug":"award-winning-blueberry-growing-essayist-poet-feaured-at-writers-read-event-on-monday-feb-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2014\/award-winning-blueberry-growing-essayist-poet-feaured-at-writers-read-event-on-monday-feb-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning, blueberry-growing essayist, poet, feaured at Writers Read event on Monday, Feb. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Minick, author of the award-winning <em>The Blueberry Years, A Memoir of Farm and Family<\/em>, will be at EMU on Monday, Feb. 10, for two events, culminating in the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/langlit\/writers-read\/\">Writers Read Author<\/a> of the semester at 6:30 p.m., in EMU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/map\/\">Common Grounds Coffeehouse<\/a> in University Commons.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that day, at 4 p.m. in Suter Science Center room 104, Minick will talk about creating and operating one of the first certified-organic, pick-your-own blueberry farms in his home region, the topic of his memoir.<\/p>\n<p>Both events are free and open to the public, though a donation for the evening event will be welcomed.<a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/02\/wr3-jim-minick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-19247\" alt=\"wr3-jim-minick\" src=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/02\/wr3-jim-minick-246x300.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/02\/wr3-jim-minick-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/02\/wr3-jim-minick.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minick has authored two books of poetry,\u00a0<em>Her Secret Song<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Burning Heaven<\/em>, a collection of essays,\u00a0<em>Finding a Clear Path<\/em>, and edited of\u00a0<em>All There Is to Keep<\/em>\u00a0by Rita Riddle. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many publications, including\u00a0<em>Oxford American, Shenandoah, Orion, San Francisco Chronicle, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Conversations with Wendell Berry, The Sun,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Wind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Minick&#8217;s book of poems, <em>Burning Heaven<\/em>, was awarded the &#8220;Jefferson Cup&#8221; for best book of the year by the Virginia College Bookstore Association in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Minick teaches at Radford University and Converse College and is the Fred Chappell Fellow at University of North Carolina-Greensboro, where he\u2019s pursuing an MFA.<\/p>\n<p>Sign-language interpretation is available upon request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Minick, author of the award-winning The Blueberry Years, A Memoir of Farm and Family, will be at EMU on Monday, Feb. 10, for two events, culminating in the first <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2014\/award-winning-blueberry-growing-essayist-poet-feaured-at-writers-read-event-on-monday-feb-10\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Award-winning, blueberry-growing essayist, poet, feaured at Writers Read event on Monday, Feb. 10<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,7931,356,5623],"tags":[6374],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-19196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-arts","category-language-and-literature","category-special-programs","tag-writers-read"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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