{"id":50011,"date":"2013-11-21T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=50011"},"modified":"2019-10-18T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:55:07","slug":"writings-and-poetry-by-carmen-gillespie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=50011","title":{"rendered":"Writings and Poetry by Carmen Gillespie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/50011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-61304\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/50011.jpg\" alt=\"50011\" width=\"150\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><strong>Carmen Gillespie<\/strong> was a Professor of English and the Director of the Griot Institute of Africana Studies at Bucknell University, and the author of a poetry collection, <em>Jonestown: A Vexation<\/em>. She was also the organizer of a class and semester-long lecture series entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40138\"><em>Jonestown 35 Years Later<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gillespie died on August 30, 2019. A remembrance by Rebecca Moore appears <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=93295\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40161\">Jonestown Reconsidered: A Report on a Forum<\/a> (2013)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34266\">Time: Jonestown Reconsidered 35 Years Later<\/a> (2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29303\">Volume of Poetry Counters Erasure of Jonestown<\/a> (2011)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30256\">The Vexation of Jonestown<\/a> (2010)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30257\">One<\/a> (2010)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmen Gillespie was a Professor of English and the Director of the Griot Institute of Africana Studies at Bucknell University, and the author of a poetry collection, Jonestown: A Vexation. She was also the organizer of a class and semester-long lecture series entitled Jonestown 35 Years Later. Dr. Gillespie died on August 30, 2019. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":18142,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50011","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50011"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93307,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50011\/revisions\/93307"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}