{"id":205,"date":"2016-06-15T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/?page_id=205"},"modified":"2016-06-15T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T17:28:02","slug":"awards-grants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/about\/awards-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards &#038; Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Distinguished Alumnus Award, Kent State University, April 2012<\/li>\n<li><i>Long Lens: New &amp; Selected Poems,<\/i> a collection of poems, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010; the book was also winner of the Brockman-Campbell Award given by the North Carolina Poetry Society for the best book of poetry by a North Carolinian published in the previous year 2011.\n<\/li>\n<li>Honored with the Lee Smith Visiting Writer\u2019s Chair, North Carolina State University, Spring 2008<\/li>\n<li>National Endowment for the Arts grant for <i>Tar River Poetry<\/i>, a journal he founded and edited from 1978-2006<\/li>\n<li>Honored with the title of &#8220;Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences&#8221; for career achievement as teacher and writer.\u00a0 Cash award.\u00a0 August 1996<\/li>\n<li>Fulbright Exchange Professorship, l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Savoie, Chamb\u00e9ry, France, 1974-1975<\/li>\n<li>Essay on guns, \u201cThe Trouble With Smitty\u201d (originally published in <i>The Hudson Review<\/i>, reprinted in <i>The Sun<\/i>)), among the \u201cNotable Essays of 1999,\u201d in Robert Atwan\u2019s <i>The Best American Essays of 2000.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Essay \u201cTrapping in Foreign Country,\u201d winner of the Monroe Spears Award for the Best Essay to appear in <i>The Sewanee Review<\/i> in 2010 (Winter issue)<\/li>\n<li>Zoe Kincaid Brockman Award, cash prize and silver bowl for the best volume of poems (<i>Pilgrims<\/i>) by a North Carolinian in 1987<\/li>\n<li>Charity Randall Citation, a cash award and bronze plaque presented by the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, PA., 1993<\/li>\n<li>Selected to lecture &#8220;Poets in Person&#8221; series, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Spring 1996<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distinguished Alumnus Award, Kent State University, April 2012 Long Lens: New &amp; Selected Poems, a collection of poems, nominated for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":207,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions\/206"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makuck.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}