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EVENT NEWS / January 25, 2007

Poet Dan Beachy-Quick to Come to Boise State University Feb. 8 as Part of the MFA Reading Series

Poet Dan Beachy-Quick will read at Boise State University at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8 as part of the MFA Reading Series. The event will be held in Interactive Learning Center, Room 118. The reading is free and open to the public.

Beachy-Quick is the author of three books of poetry: “Mulberry,” a finalist for the 2006 ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year; “Spell,” published by Boise State’s Ahsahta Press; and “North True South Bright,” named one of the best books by emerging writers in Fence Magazine.

Beachy-Quick has been published in many literary reviews, including “Boston Review,” “Volt,” “Chicago Review,” “1913,” and “The Denver Quarterly.” In addition to poetry he has published numerous reviews and critical essays on the writing craft. His latest book, “A Whaler’s Dictionary,” focuses on Herman Mellville’s “Moby-Dick” and will be released this fall by Milkweed Editions.

Beachy-Quick attended Hamilton College, the University of Denver and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He is currently teaching in the MFA writing program at Colorado State University and is a recipient of a Lannan Foundation Residency.

Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings nationally renowned authors and poets to the Boise State Campus. Past speakers include Rick Bass, Chris Offutt, Rae Armantrout, Alice Notley, Michael Palmer, Joy Williams, Denis Johnson, Richard Bausch, and Nathaniel Mackey.

For more information, call 426-2669.

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Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

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