{"id":13543,"date":"2023-03-27T09:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=13543"},"modified":"2023-03-27T17:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:11:20","slug":"author-anthony-grooms-visits-literature-classroom-virtually-on-march-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2023\/03\/27\/author-anthony-grooms-visits-literature-classroom-virtually-on-march-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Anthony Grooms visits literature classroom virtually on March 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthonygrooms.com\/\">Anthony Grooms<\/a>, the author of several works of fiction, including <em>Bombingham<\/em> and <em>Vain Conversation<\/em>, will be joining online class meetings of Professor of English Michael Barry&#8217;s Study of Fiction course on <strong>Wednesday, March 29<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13544\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/4814cf_716e96a3bc664256ab533d77f236ebec.gif?resize=207%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Anthony Grooms\" width=\"207\" height=\"240\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Grooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Non-class members are invited to participate during the classes on March 29, which run from <strong>10-10:50 a.m.<\/strong> and <strong>12-12:50 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Bombingham<\/em>, the novel that is part of the reading list for the course, tells the story of a boy&#8217;s turbulent coming of age, set in Birmingham, Ala. during the Civil Rights Movement in 1963. More specifically, it&#8217;s set against the backdrop of the Children&#8217;s March and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church\u2014and other instances of terrorism from that year.<\/p>\n<p>Grooms has recently retired from his position as professor of Creative Writing at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>If interested in joining, please contact<a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/clae\/english\/full-time-faculty\/michael-barry\">\u00a0Barry<\/a> by email at <a href=\"mailto:barrymg@udmercy.edu\">barrymg@udmercy.edu<\/a> for the Zoom links, one for each class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Grooms, the author of several works of fiction, including Bombingham and Vain Conversation, will be joining online class meetings of Professor of English Michael Barry&#8217;s Study of Fiction course on Wednesday, March 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":13544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[94,2309,5160,139,3684,5972],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/4814cf_716e96a3bc664256ab533d77f236ebec.gif?fit=420%2C487&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-3wr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13558,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions\/13558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}