{"id":53725,"date":"2020-04-12T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=53725"},"modified":"2020-05-05T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T15:58:38","slug":"natasha-saje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/natasha-saje\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Saj\u00e9 Reads &#8220;O&#8221; and Marianne Boruch&#8217;s &#8220;The No-Name Tapestries&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-5-LowRes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53726\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-5-LowRes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-5-LowRes.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-5-LowRes-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-5-LowRes-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-5-LowRes-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When I think of the dead, it means<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>they\u2019re thinking<br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>of me &#8230;<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cheering or haunting, depending on your perspective, are these opening lines from Marianne Boruch&#8217;s &#8220;The No-Name Tapestries,&#8221; a work Natasha Saj\u00e9 chose to read for us in honor of National Poetry Month.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-53725-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-Saje\u0301-Reads-Marianne-boruch-the-no-name-tapestries-.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-Saje\u0301-Reads-Marianne-boruch-the-no-name-tapestries-.m4a\">https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-Saje\u0301-Reads-Marianne-boruch-the-no-name-tapestries-.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Saj\u00e9, a professor of English at Westminster College and a member of poetry faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. in Writing Program, is the author of a book of poetry criticism (<em>Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory<\/em>), a book of creative nonfiction (<em>Terroir: Love, Out of Place)<\/em> and\u00a0three books of poems:\u00a0<em>Red Under the Skin<\/em> (Pittsburgh, 1994), <em>Bend<\/em> (Tupelo Press, 2004), and <em>Vivarium <\/em>(Tupelo, 2014). The latter was the recipient of the 15 Bytes Book Award for Poetry in 2015 (her work has also been honored with the Robert Winner and Alice Fay di Castagnola Awards, a Fulbright fellowship, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, and the Utah Book Award).<\/p>\n<p>From <em>Vivarium<\/em>, she reads for us <em>O<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-13-at-2.18.13-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53730\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-13-at-2.18.13-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-13-at-2.18.13-PM.png 535w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-13-at-2.18.13-PM-350x297.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-53725-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-Saje-Reads-O.m4a?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-Saje-Reads-O.m4a\">https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-Saje-Reads-O.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>In honor of National Poetry Month, we\u2019ve asked poets in our state to record themselves reading from their own work as well as from the work of a poet they admire. In recognition of these unique times, we\u2019re calling the series\u00a0<\/em>Poets in the Pajamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of the dead, it means they\u2019re thinking of me &#8230; Cheering or haunting, depending on your perspective, are these opening lines from Marianne Boruch&#8217;s &#8220;The No-Name Tapestries,&#8221; a work Natasha Saj\u00e9 chose to read for us in honor of National Poetry Month. Saj\u00e9, a professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3702],"tags":[2349],"class_list":["post-53725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literary-arts","category-poets-in-pajamas","tag-natasha-saje"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Natasha-5-LowRes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 09:22:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53889,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53725\/revisions\/53889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}