{"id":4724,"date":"2026-08-23T13:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:58:45","slug":"kerry-shawn-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/kerry-shawn-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Shawn Keys (Lietuva \/ JAV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kerry Shawn Keys (b. 1946) is an American poet living in Vilnius. The roots of Keys\u2019s work can be found in the Appalachian Mountains, India, Brazil, and Lithuania. He is a former Fulbright Scholar for studies in Africa and Brazil, and a member of the Lithuanian Writers\u2019 Union and PEN Club. From 1998 to 2000, he was a Fulbright Professional Scholar teaching translation theory at Vilnius University. In 2005, he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Keys has been appointed World Poetry Ambassador of the Republic of U\u017eupis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-55661e2a\">His works cover a wide range\u2014from pastoral poetry, poetry of \u2018urban ruins,\u2019 flamenco rhythms, children's books, Eastern meditations, and polyphonic poems. His most recent books: <em>Shoelaces for Chagall, Selected Love Poems<\/em> (in English and German), 2021; <em>Seasons At The Patch<\/em>, 2023 \u2013 the Druskininkai Poetic Fall published a book in Lithuanian in 2026 under the title<em> Metlaikiai \u0160unkaimy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025, the author was awarded the Vilnius Mayor\u2019s Prize for the bilingual poetry collection Alphabet of Dreams (compiled and translated to Lithuanian by Dominykas Nork\u016bnas) <em>.<\/em> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-d83e1968\">Photo by Laura Vansevi\u010dien\u0117<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry Shawn Keys (g. 1946) \u2013 Vilniuje gyvenantis amerikie\u010di\u0173 poetas. Keyso k\u016brybos i\u0161takas aptiksime Apala\u010d\u0173 kalnuose, Indijoje, Brazilijoje, ir Lietuvoje.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetai","category-poetai-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4726,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}