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EVENT NEWS / April 6, 2009

Boise State University MFA Reading Series Features Poets Morrison, Sutherland and Prynne in April

Note: This is a resend of a previous release. The location of the Rusty Morrison reading on April 24 has been changed.

Poets Rusty Morrison, Keston Sutherland and J.H. Prynne will read in April as part of Boise State University’s MFA Reading Series. All events are free and open to the public.

Sutherland and Prynne will read at 7:30 p.m. April 10 in the Student Union Bishop Barnwell Room. Prynne is closely associated with the British poetry revival, and is a life fellow of Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge. He has published 30 volumes of poetry, most of which have been collected in the 600-page anthology “Poems.” Prynne also has written numerous critical essays, all of which will be published in the forthcoming “Collected Essays” from the University of Manchester Press. In 2005, Prynne retired from teaching at the University of Cambridge and as director of studies in English at Gonville and Caius College. Prynne’s appearance at Boise State will be one of his first public readings in the United States since 1968.

Sutherland is the author of several published books of poetry, including “Hot White Andy.” He completed his bachelor’s degree at Cambridge in 1997 before becoming the Joseph Hodges Choate Fellow at Harvard University. Sutherland later returned to Cambridge to complete his doctorate. He is the editor of the journal “QUID” and co-editor of Barque Press. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Sussex.

Rusty Morrison will read at 7:30 p.m. April 24 in the Student Union Grand B Ballroom. Morrison’s “the true keeps calm biding its story” won the 2008 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. It also won the 2007 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, which is awarded by Boise State’s Ahsahta Press, and the 2007 Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. Morrison’s first collection, “Whethering,” won the Colorado Prize for Poetry in 2004. Her poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in “The Boston Review,” “Chicago Review,” “Colorado Review,” “Denver Quarterly,” “New American Writing,” and “Verse,” among others. She is a contributing editor for “Poetry Flash” and the co-publisher of “Omnidawn.”

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, Anthony Doerr, Denis Johnson, Richard Bausch and Nathaniel Mackey. For more information, contact Jacob Powers at jacobpowers@boisestate.edu. 


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Last reviewed on Monday, April 06, 2009