{"id":10823,"date":"2017-11-30T14:28:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T19:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=10823"},"modified":"2022-10-04T12:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T16:04:53","slug":"ben-purkert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/ben-purkert\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Purkert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10824\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HeadShot_Purkert-by-Siddhartha-Sinha-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10824 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HeadShot_Purkert-by-Siddhartha-Sinha--300x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HeadShot_Purkert-by-Siddhartha-Sinha--300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HeadShot_Purkert-by-Siddhartha-Sinha--1024x968.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HeadShot_Purkert-by-Siddhartha-Sinha--212x200.jpg 212w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HeadShot_Purkert-by-Siddhartha-Sinha--768x726.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HeadShot_Purkert-by-Siddhartha-Sinha--1536x1452.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HeadShot_Purkert-by-Siddhartha-Sinha--150x142.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HeadShot_Purkert-by-Siddhartha-Sinha-.jpg 1912w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(c) Siddhartha Sinha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/column]<\/p>\n<h2>Ben Purkert<\/h2>\n<p>Ben Purkert teaches creative writing at Rutgers University \u2013 New Brunswick. His poems and essays have<br \/>\nappeared in <em>AGNI<\/em>, <em>Boston Review<\/em>, <em>Guernica<\/em>, <em>Kenyon Review<\/em>, <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>Ploughshares<\/em>, and elsewhere. He holds degrees from Harvard and NYU, where he was a New York Times Fellow. For more information, you can go to his <a href=\"http:\/\/benpurkert.com\/\">author website<\/a> or follow him on Twitter @BenPurkert. His debut collection <em>For the Love of Endings<\/em> was published by Four Way Books in 2018.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/for-the-love-of-endings\/\"><em>For the Love of Endings<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;] [\/column] Ben Purkert Ben Purkert teaches creative writing at Rutgers University \u2013 New Brunswick. His poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, Boston Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds degrees from Harvard and NYU, where he was a New York Times Fellow. For more information, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10823","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18101,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10823\/revisions\/18101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}