{"id":2491,"date":"2013-08-22T16:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T16:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=2491"},"modified":"2023-07-18T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:00:18","slug":"sydneylea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/sydneylea\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Lea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/author-photo-Big-Falls_-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13716 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/author-photo-Big-Falls_--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/author-photo-Big-Falls_--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/author-photo-Big-Falls_--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/author-photo-Big-Falls_--212x141.jpg 212w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/author-photo-Big-Falls_--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/author-photo-Big-Falls_--1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/author-photo-Big-Falls_--2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/author-photo-Big-Falls_--150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/column]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">Sydney Lea<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A former Pulitzer finalist and winner of the Poets\u2019 Prize, Sydney Lea served as founding editor of\u00a0<i>New England Review<\/i>\u00a0and was Vermont\u2019s Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2015. He is the author of twenty-three books: a novel, five volumes of personal and three of critical essays, and fourteen poetry collections, most recently\u00a0<i>Here<\/i>. In 2021, he was presented with his home state of Vermont\u2019s most prestigious artist\u2019s distinction: the Governor\u2019s Award for Excellence in the Arts.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/what-shines\/\"><em>What Shines<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/here\/\"><em>Here<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/doubt-nameless\/\"><em>No Doubt the Nameless<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/i-was-thinking-of-beauty\/\">I Was Thinking of Beauty <\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><a href=\" http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/young-of-the-year\/\">Young of the Year<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;] [\/column] Sydney Lea A former Pulitzer finalist and winner of the Poets\u2019 Prize, Sydney Lea served as founding editor of\u00a0New England Review\u00a0and was Vermont\u2019s Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2015. He is the author of twenty-three books: a novel, five volumes of personal and three of critical essays, and fourteen poetry collections, most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2491","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2491","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19540,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2491\/revisions\/19540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}