{"id":7305,"date":"2016-11-14T22:20:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2020-01-31T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:44:14","slug":"auggie-earns-most-promising-young-poet-national-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2016\/11\/14\/auggie-earns-most-promising-young-poet-national-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggie earns &#8216;Most Promising Young Poet&#8217; national honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/Dante-Collins.jpg\" alt=\"dante-collins\" width=\"115\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/Dante-Collins.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/Dante-Collins-768x961.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/b><strong>Donte Collins \u201918<\/strong>was named the \u201cMost Promising Young Poet\u201d by the Academy of American Poets this fall. His poem, \u201cwhat the dead know by heart,\u201d previously won Â鶹Çø\u2019s John R. Mitchell Prize, which qualified him for the prestigious competition. Collins is a theater major who is active in the local, regional, and national spoken word and poetry scene. Collins told Minnesota Public Radio that he plans to use the $1,000 prize from the award to self-publish his first collection of poetry, a chapbook called \u201cautopsies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Photo by <strong>Ricky Taylor \u201917<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donte Collins \u201918was named the \u201cMost Promising Young Poet\u201d by the Academy of American Poets this fall. His poem, \u201cwhat the dead know by heart,\u201d previously won Â鶹Çø\u2019s John R. Mitchell Prize, which qualified him for the prestigious competition. Collins is a theater major who is active in the local, regional, and national spoken word <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-7305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-2016"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10102,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions\/10102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}