{"id":4295,"date":"2022-04-06T23:16:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T23:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-the-words\/?page_id=4295"},"modified":"2024-08-19T19:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:58:30","slug":"michael-prior-enjoys-cullman-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/home-2\/the-words-april-2022\/michael-prior-enjoys-cullman-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Prior Enjoys Cullman Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-2366 size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1158\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2020\/02\/michaelprior.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Michael Prior\" class=\"wp-image-2366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2020\/02\/michaelprior.jpg 1158w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2020\/02\/michaelprior-300x200.jpg 300w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2020\/02\/michaelprior-1024x683.jpg 1024w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2020\/02\/michaelprior-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1158px) 100vw, 1158px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photograph by Malcolm Cooke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Zoe Roos Scheuerman &#8217;24<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This academic year, award-winning author and Creative Writing Professor Michael Prior has been in New York City as a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. There, he is working on a new poetry collection which, as described on the New York Public Library\u2019s webpage about the fellowship, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">explores intergenerational memory and the incarceration of Japanese Canadians and Japanese Americans during the Second World War.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Words <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reached out to Professor Prior about his experience with the fellowship so far. This is what he had to say:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I&#8217;ve had a wonderful time at the Cullman Center. I am so grateful for its wonderful director, Martha Hodes, and all the other fellows, whose work\u2014ranging from biographies to novels to histories\u2014has been incredibly inspiring. Recently, I have been spending a lot of my time in the library&#8217;s Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs examining Japanese woodblock prints designed by artists like Hiroshige and Hokusai. I&#8217;ve also been researching Japanese American and Japanese Canadian visual artists in the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on those who have responded in their work to their communities&#8217; wartime incarceration. I thought my fellowship year would be less busy than a regular semester at Mac, but that hasn&#8217;t proven to be the case: in addition to my work at the library, I&#8217;ve judged a few poetry contests, given a reading for the Lannan Foundation, and am currently the virtual writer-in-residence for North Carolina State&#8217;s MFA program this spring. I&#8217;ve also been fortunate enough to publish some new poems in magazines! I&#8217;m thankful for all my colleagues in the English Department, who have been so supportive of this fellowship and my time away. I&#8217;m looking forward to returning to Macalester next fall and being in the classroom again.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sending my best!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re looking forward to seeing Michael next fall, too! The Words staff wishes him the best of luck during the rest of his fellowship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zoe Roos Scheuerman &#8217;24 This academic year, award-winning author and Creative Writing Professor Michael Prior has been in New York City as a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. 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