{"id":2,"date":"2013-01-08T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2016-04-09T04:08:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T04:08:55","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Bargen &#8211; A Poetic Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/walterMug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15\" title=\"walterMug\" src=\"http:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/walterMug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walter Bargen has published nineteen books of poetry.\u00a0 His most recent books are: <em>Days Like This Are Necessary: New &amp; Selected Poems <\/em>(2009), <em>Endearing Ruins <\/em>(2012), <em>Trouble Behind Glass Doors<\/em> (2013), <em>Quixotic<\/em> (2014), <em>Gone West<\/em> (2014), and <em>Three-Corner Catch<\/em> (2015).\u00a0 He was appointed the first poet laureate of Missouri (2008-2009). \u00a0His awards include a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship (1991), Quarter After Eight Prose Prize (1996), the Hanks Prize (1996), the Chester H. Jones Foundation prize (1997), the William Rockhill Nelson Award (2005), Short Fiction Award\u2013 A cappella Zoo (2011). His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in over 300 magazines, including American Literary Review, American Letters &amp; Commentary, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, International Quarterly, Missouri Review, New Letters, New Novel Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, River Styx, Seneca Review, Sycamore Review, and Witness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p>Walter Bargen<br \/>\nPO Box 19<br \/>\nAshland, MO 65010<br \/>\nPhone 573 657-2636<br \/>\nemail:<a href=\"mailto:walter.bargen@gmail.com\">walter.bargen@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Bargen has published nineteen books of poetry.\u00a0 His most recent books are: Days Like This Are Necessary: New &amp; Selected Poems (2009), Endearing Ruins (2012), Trouble Behind Glass Doors (2013), Quixotic (2014), Gone West (2014), and Three-Corner Catch (2015).\u00a0 <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Walter Bargen &#8211; A Poetic Journey<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walterbargen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}