{"id":46113,"date":"2017-06-12T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=46113"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T18:15:53","slug":"dayton-daily-news-profiles-debut-poetry-collection-by-wright-state-grad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/12\/dayton-daily-news-profiles-debut-poetry-collection-by-wright-state-grad\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News profiles debut poetry collection by Wright State grad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/12\/dayton-daily-news-profiles-debut-poetry-collection-by-wright-state-grad\/rita-coleman\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-46115\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/06\/rita-coleman-260x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetry is a mystical thing to me,\u201d explains Rita Coleman, a local poet who lives in rural Greene County. Rita\u2019s debut collection of poetry, \u201cAnd Yet,\u201d will be published in August by Finishing Line Press. \u201cThe title of the poem, which also serves as the title of my collection, just came to me once that poem was written. I like that the title implies that there is more beyond the last line or the last poem, that it leaves everything open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rita, who lived in Eaton until she was six and then moved with her family to Kettering, says she started writing poetry off and on after high school, and has been writing poetry steadily ever since.<\/p>\n<p>She is a Wright State University graduate with a B.A. and an M.A. in English literature with a concentration in creative writing. She has worked as a freelance journalist, a teaching assistant and an adjunct instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydaytondailynews.com\/entertainment\/books--literature\/local-poet-enjoys-publication-debut-poetry-collection-and-yet\/loVm26jDrNZP55A5twm24J\/\">Dayton Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt \u201cPoetry is a mystical thing to me,\u201d explains Rita Coleman, a local poet who lives in rural Greene County. Rita\u2019s debut collection of poetry, \u201cAnd Yet,\u201d will be published in August by Finishing Line Press. \u201cThe title of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/12\/dayton-daily-news-profiles-debut-poetry-collection-by-wright-state-grad\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":46115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4863,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities-and-cultural-studies","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46117,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46113\/revisions\/46117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}