{"id":627,"date":"2018-12-27T01:16:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T01:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=627"},"modified":"2019-01-12T20:06:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T20:06:02","slug":"a-new-poem-by-reid-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/12\/27\/a-new-poem-by-reid-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Poem by Reid Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>REID MITCHELL is a New Orleanian teaching in China. More specifically, he is a Scholar in Jiangsu Province\u2019s 100 Foreign Talents Program, and a Professor of English at Yancheng Teachers University. He is also Consulting Editor of CHA: AN ASIAN LITERARY JOURNAL. His poems have been published by CHA, ASIA LITERARY REVIEW, IN POSSE, and elsewhere and he has a collection due out from a small press in Berlin. Way back in the 20th century, he published the novel A MAN UNDER AUTHORITY. He also had a separate career as an historian of the American Civil War.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three Chords<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>My best night and saddest moment<br>in China was the night you wore<br>your sweater dress, the one with slits<br>and we went out to eat dishes such as<br>Da Pan Ji and Ughyur flatbreads<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and yet when you came home with me<br>I had to send you away because you<br>are my student. You walked through<br>the black iron gates and for a few minutes<br>stood revolving in your light brown cashmere<br>coat, your almond face white in the moon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REID MITCHELL is a New Orleanian teaching in China. More specifically, he is a Scholar in Jiangsu Province\u2019s 100 Foreign Talents Program, and a Professor of English at Yancheng Teachers University. He is also Consulting Editor of CHA: AN ASIAN LITERARY JOURNAL. His poems have been published by CHA, ASIA LITERARY REVIEW, IN POSSE, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/12\/27\/a-new-poem-by-reid-mitchell\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-a7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}