{"id":1915,"date":"2016-03-01T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T16:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","slug":"marshall-wins-poetry-prize-lauds-for-first-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2016\/03\/01\/marshall-wins-poetry-prize-lauds-for-first-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Wins Poetry Prize, Lauds for First Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Professor Nate Marshall\u2019s first book is \u201ctestament to home, to struggle, and to survival . . . a reminder of the places most people would rather forget.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of English <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natemarshallpoetry.com\">Nate Marshall<\/a> may be new to Wabash, but he\u2019s been known nationally since he starred in the award-winning documentary <em>Louder Than the Bomb,<\/em> which chronicled the world\u2019s largest youth poetry slam.<\/p>\n<p>Now his debut collection of poems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0141BIZ5U\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\"><em>Wild Hundreds<\/em> <\/a>(University of Pittsburgh Press), has earned him the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>In<em> Wild Hundreds<\/em>, Marshall explores \u201cthe perils and praise songs of black lives on the South Side of Chicago, where he grew up.\u201d <em>Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/em> calls the book \u201can insider\u2019s perspective that asks the reader to parse the sociopolitical systems that imperil black lives\u2014not through abstract ideology, but through authentically rendered eyes: \u2018every kid that\u2019s killed is one less free lunch, \/ a fiscal coup. welcome to where we from.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch of the collection takes shape through the voice of a young black man navigating high school, family, friendships, and the physical and mental dangers that surround him as he strives toward manhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Devil\u2019s Lake<\/em> literary journal calls the book \u201cA testament to home, to struggle, and to survival . . . a reminder of the places most people would rather forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marshall is coeditor of T<em>he BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop,<\/em> a member of the poetry collective Dark Noise, and also a rapper.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natemarshallpoetry.com\">natemarshallpoetry.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Nate Marshall\u2019s first book is \u201ctestament to home, to struggle, and to survival . . . a reminder of the places most people would rather forget.\u201d VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news-and-notes","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/03\/marshall-nate-quiet-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}