March 24, 2003

FIVE RENOWNED AUTHORS TO GIVE READINGS AT BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY

Five well-known poets and authors will give readings at Boise State University as part of the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing in the department of English. All readings are free and open to the public.

Katy Lederer, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, in the Student Union Hatch Ballroom — Lederer was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Body Electric: America's Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review (Norton), The Verse Book of New American Poets (Slope), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribners), and Pleased to See Me (Bloodaxe), among other publications. Her full-length collection is entitled Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002). She is also the author of Poker Face, a memoir.

Anthony Doerr, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6, in the Student Union Lookout Room — Doerr is a visiting professor of English at Boise State and is a fiction writer whose stories have appeared in numerous publications, including the O. Henry Prize Stories, Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope: All Story, and The Paris Review. His first book, The Shell Collector, was published in 2002 and recently was awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr has lived in Africa and New Zealand and currently lives in Boise.

David Baker, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in the Student Union Hatch Ballroom — Baker received his Ph.D. (1983) from the University of Utah, where he also served as editor of Quarterly West. He currently holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison University, teaches in the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College, is the poetry editor of The Kenyon Review, and plays jazz guitar with the Rick Brunetto Band. Baker is author of five books of poetry: The Truth about Small Towns (1998), After the Reunion (1994), Sweet Home, Saturday Night (1991), all from the University of Arkansas Press, as well as Haunts (1985, Cleveland State) and Laws of the Land (1981, Ahsahta). In 2000 his critical book, Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry, appeared from Arkansas, following his Meter in English: A Critical Engagement in 1996. He lives in Granville, Ohio.

D.A. Powell, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in the Student Union Hatch Ballroom — Powell is the author of Tea (1998) and Lunch (2000), both from Wesleyan University Press. He has received a Pushcart Prize, a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Foundation, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Larry Levis Prize from Prairie Schooner and the Boston Review’s annual poetry award. Together with Katherine Swiggart, he edits the Electronic Poetry Review. He currently teaches at Columbia University and at Harvard University, where he is the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry.

Robin Blaser, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in the Student Union Bishop Barnwell Room — Born in Twin Falls in 1925, Robin Blaser was a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance movement. His work was anthologized by Donald Allen in The New American Poetry with his companions Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley and Jack Spicer. Blaser moved to Canada in 1966 to teach at Simon Fraser University, where he taught in the English Department until retirement. He is the author of Pell Mell (1988) and his collected works, The Holy Forest. (1993). Even on Sunday, edited by Blaser and Miriam Nichols (2002) and The Recovery of the Public World: Essays on Poetics in Honour of Robin Blaser, edited by Charles Watts and Edward Byrne (1998) were both published in celebration of Blaser’s work. He currently lives in Vancouver.

For more information on any of these readings, call 426-3862.

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