April 9, 2003
NOTED POET D.A. POWELL TO SPEAK AT BOISE STATE
APRIL 17
Noted poet D.A. Powell will be at Boise State University
Thursday, April 17, as part of the Master of Fine Arts program in creative
writing in the department of English. Powell will give a reading at 7:30 p.m. in
the Student Union Hatch Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
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.
Powell currently teaches at Columbia University and at
Harvard University, where he is the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry.
Other upcoming poetry events include national slam poet
Alix Olson on April 25 and Al Greenberg on May 2. For more information, call
426-3862.
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426-2195
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