{"id":15325,"date":"2024-03-13T09:17:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=15325"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:17:51","slug":"english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"English Department to Host Wilkes Alum and Guest Artist Leah Vernon on March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Wilkes University English Department, as part of its Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series, will host a reading by guest artist Leah Vernon at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, in the Kirby Hall Salon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vernon earned her master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Wilkes University. She tells her story in the memoir\u00a0<em>Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim<\/em>\u00a0and explores futuristic fiction in her dystopian novels\u00a0<em>The Union<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Dissent<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\">news.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wilkes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\">.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AHD-Leah-Vernon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AHD-Leah-Vernon-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AHD-Leah-Vernon-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AHD-Leah-Vernon-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AHD-Leah-Vernon-1-930x620.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilkes University English Department, as part of its Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series, will host a reading by guest artist Leah Vernon at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, in the Kirby Hall Salon.\u00a0 Vernon earned her master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Wilkes University. She tells her story in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English Department to Host Wilkes Alum and Guest Artist Leah Vernon on March 20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15328,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions\/15328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}