{"id":2357,"date":"2020-11-03T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2020-11-06T08:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:11:14","slug":"unm-alumnus-taking-poetry-scene-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2020\/11\/03\/unm-alumnus-taking-poetry-scene-by-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"UNM Alumnus Taking Poetry Scene by Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Benjamin Garcia, UNM alumni, is breaking out as a dynamic professional poet. Having completed a BA in English and Spanish from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Cornell University. Garcia\u2019s poems have appeared in the <em>Kenyon Review Online<\/em>, <em>Best New Poets<\/em>, <em>As\/Us, Gulf Coas<\/em>t, <em>The Collagist, and West Branch Wired<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Benjamin\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/bliss-point-or-what-can-best-be-achieved-cheese\">Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese<\/a>\u201d by clicking the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thrown in the Throat,<\/em> Benjamin\u2019s first collection, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series\u2014a literary awards program sponsoring the annual publication of five books of poetry. This collection was heralded by <em>Lambda Literary<\/em> as the \u201cMost Anticipated LGBTQ Book\u201d and a \u201cMust-read poetry collection\u201d by <em>The Millions<\/em>. [Image 2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benjamin currently works for a nonprofit organization as a Sexual Health and Harm Reduction Educator providing HIV\/STD and opioid overdose prevention education to higher-risk communities of New York\u2019s Finger Lakes region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Garcia, UNM alumni, is breaking out as a dynamic professional poet. Having completed a BA in English and Spanish from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Cornell University. Garcia\u2019s poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Best New Poets, As\/Us, Gulf Coast, The Collagist, and West Branch Wired. Read Benjamin\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}