{"id":1272,"date":"1984-03-08T22:40:00","date_gmt":"1984-03-09T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2025-02-27T09:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:40:58","slug":"al-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/al-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 14: Al Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-99b67295\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-dd3264a0\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d908e0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d908e0\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/09\/Al-young.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/09\/Al-young.jpg 448w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/09\/Al-young-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-04bf84a4 gb-headline-text\">About Al Young<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Poet and novelist Al Young was born on May 31, 1939, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He attended the University of Michigan and received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-b621e6a1\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b621e6a1\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d4851750 gb-headline-text\">A Profile of the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Works<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>His volumes of poetry include Something About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry (Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2008); Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons: Poems 2001-2006 (Angel City Press, 2006); The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000 (Creative Arts Book Company, 2001); Heaven: Collected Poems, 1956-90 (1992), The Blues Don\u2019t Change: New and Selected Poems (1982), Geography of the Near Past (1976), Some Recent Fiction (1974), The Song Turning Back into Itself (1971), and Dancing: Poems (1969), which won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7e6c16e8\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7e6c16e8\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-d47361dc gb-query-loop-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-ed2ade5b gb-query-loop-item post-3229 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-work\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-ed2ade5b\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"228\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/08\/issue14.jpg\" alt=\"Willow Springs 14\" class=\"wp-image-979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/08\/issue14.jpg 228w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/08\/issue14-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-5ba7eb8c gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/three-poems-by-al-young\/\">Three Poems by Al Young<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-196b72c8 gb-headline-text\"><time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2022-02-03T10:48:31-08:00\">February 3, 2022<\/time><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gb-shapes\"><div class=\"gb-shape gb-shape-1\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 1200 211.2\" preserveAspectRatio=\"none\"><path d=\"M600 188.4C321.1 188.4 84.3 109.5 0 0v211.2h1200V0c-84.3 109.5-321.1 188.4-600 188.4z\"\/><\/svg><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":25234,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profiles","category-table-of-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38121,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/38121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}