{"id":5943,"date":"2016-09-28T14:18:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2018-06-27T14:53:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T21:53:34","slug":"latham-irene-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5943","title":{"rendered":"LATHAM, IRENE, 1971-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet; writer of children&#8217;s books.\u00a0 Born&#8211;1971, Covington, Ga.\u00a0 Moved to Birmingham in 1984.\u00a0 Married; children&#8211;three.\u00a0 Education&#8211; University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Alabama.\u00a0 Contributes to poetry journals and anthologies; poetry editor for the Birmingham Arts Journal.\u00a0Member of Society of Children&#8217;s Book Writers and Illustrators; Alabama Writers Forum; Big Table Poets. Named Alabama Poet of the Year, 2006; Book of the Year, Alabama State Poetry Society, 2007; Children&#8217;s Book Award, Alabama Library Association, 2011; Notable Children&#8217;s Book,American Library Association, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary authors online; Irene Latham website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Color of Lost Rooms. Birmingham:\u00a0 Blue Rooster Press, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wandering Wildebeest and other Poems from the Watering Hole.\u00a0 Minneapolis:\u00a0 Millbrook Press, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t Feed the Boy.\u00a0 New York: Roaring Brook Press\/Macmillan, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh Delicious:\u00a0 Poems from the Farmer&#8217;s Market.\u00a0 Honesdale, Pa:\u00a0 Wordsong, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving Gee&#8217;s Bend.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Putnam, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Now Playing:\u00a0 A Collection of Poems.\u00a0 Brierfield, AL: New Dawn Unlimited, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Between Us.\u00a0 Birmingham:\u00a0 Blue Rooster Press, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>What Came Before.\u00a0 Mobile: Negative Capability Press, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>When the Sun Shines in Antarctica.\u00a0 Minneapolis:\u00a0 Millbrook Press, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship.\u00a0 Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Poet; writer of children&#8217;s books.\u00a0 Born&#8211;1971, Covington, Ga.\u00a0 Moved to Birmingham in 1984.\u00a0 Married; children&#8211;three.\u00a0 Education&#8211; University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Alabama.\u00a0 Contributes to poetry journals and anthologies; poetry editor for the Birmingham Arts Journal.\u00a0Member of Society of Children&#8217;s Book Writers and Illustrators; Alabama Writers Forum; Big Table Poets. Named Alabama Poet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8317,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}