Award-winning poet and Visiting Assistant Professor of English Nate Marshall read and performed at in Korb Classroom last \u00a0week\u00a0the work one critic has called \u201ca\u00a0testament to home, to struggle, and to survival\u2014a reminder of the places most people would rather forget.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I love about Nate\u2019s work, both as an editor and a writer, is that he strives for words with relevance,\u201d Associate Professor Eric Freeze said, introducing the poet. \u201cNate comes from a tradition of activist poetry. His is a voice that advocates for us\u2014all of us\u2014who are suffering on the margins of society and his work provides a roadmap for ways to live in this world with all its contradictions and injustices laid bare.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marshall read from Wild Hundreds<\/em><\/a>, his\u00a0debut collection of poetry and winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, as well as from some new work.<\/p>\n \u201cWabash is a special place, a beautiful place,\u201d Marshall said after thanking the sponsors of his reading, the English department and the Malcolm X Institute. \u201cI\u2019ve been really moved by how this place has embraced me, continues to embrace me.\u201d<\/p>\n You can hear Marshall read from his work and reflect on his writing and life in a Wabash On My Mind<\/em><\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n See more photos here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n And listen to an NPR review <\/a>of Wild Hundreds<\/a><\/em> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Award-winning poet and Visiting Assistant Professor of English Nate Marshall read and performed at in Korb Classroom last \u00a0week\u00a0the work one critic has called \u201ca\u00a0testament to home, to struggle, and to survival\u2014a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news-and-notes","post_format-post-format-audio"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/03\/nate-1-1-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","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=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}