{"id":492,"date":"2010-06-02T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=492"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:36:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:36:56","slug":"poet-pens-a-dear-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/06\/02\/poet-pens-a-dear-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet pens a Dear Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/06\/lau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-493\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/06\/lau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Poet Evelyn Lau, who gained notoriety for <em>Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid<\/em> (1989), an autobiographical account of coping in a world of drugs and prostitution in Vancouver, B.C., and also for her much-publicized alleged romantic involvement with creative writing professor and writer W.P. Kinsella (<em>Shoeless Joe<\/em>, 1982), has published a poem online in <em>The Walrus<\/em> titled &#8220;Dear Updike,&#8221; which begins with an epigraph from Updike&#8217;s &#8220;On Being a Self Forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walrusmagazine.ca\/articles\/2010.05-poetry-dear-updike\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Evelyn Lau, who gained notoriety for Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid (1989), an autobiographical account of coping in a world of drugs and prostitution in Vancouver, B.C., and also for her much-publicized alleged romantic involvement with creative writing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/06\/02\/poet-pens-a-dear-updike\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}