{"id":3648,"date":"2013-09-03T17:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=3648"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T15:55:33","slug":"laurel-blossom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/laurel-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurel Blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8104\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laurel-2-Retouch.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8104 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laurel-2-Retouch-198x300.gif\" alt=\"Author Photo: Steven Haas\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laurel-2-Retouch-198x300.gif 198w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laurel-2-Retouch-296x450.gif 296w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laurel-2-Retouch-674x1024.gif 674w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laurel-2-Retouch-209x318.gif 209w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laurel-2-Retouch-768x1166.gif 768w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laurel-2-Retouch-1012x1536.gif 1012w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laurel-2-Retouch-1349x2048.gif 1349w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Laurel-2-Retouch-148x225.gif 148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Photo: Steven Haas&nbsp;[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/column]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Laurel Blossom is the Poet Laureate of Edgefield, South Carolina.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h2>Laurel Blossom<\/h2>\n<p>Laurel Blossom is the author of <em>Longevity<\/em>&nbsp;(Four Way Books 2015) and&nbsp;<em>Degrees of Latitude <\/em>(Four Way Books 2007), both book-length narrative prose poems concerning the intimate lives and relationships of two contemporary American women. Earlier books of lyric poetry include, among others, <em>Wednesday: New and Selected Poems <\/em>and <em>The Papers Said<\/em>, selected as a Notable Book of Poetry by <em>Shelf Unbound<\/em>. Blossom is the editor of <em>Splash! Great Writing About Swimming<\/em> and<em> Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from The Writers Community.<\/em> She is the first Poet Laureate of Edgefield, SC, where she lives. She can be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/laurelblossom.com\/\">www.laurelblossom.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/longevity\/\">Longevity<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/degrees-of-latitude\/\">Degrees of Latitude<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com\/features\/january-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri1#longevity\">Read a Review of <em> Longevity<\/em> in the Washington Independent Review of Books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurel Blossom is the Poet Laureate of Edgefield, South Carolina. Laurel Blossom Laurel Blossom is the author of Longevity&nbsp;(Four Way Books 2015) and&nbsp;Degrees of Latitude (Four Way Books 2007), both book-length narrative prose poems concerning the intimate lives and relationships of two contemporary American women. Earlier books of lyric poetry include, among others, Wednesday: New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-3648","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3648","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=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17635,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3648\/revisions\/17635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}