April 22, 2003
POET ALVIN GREENBERG TO GIVE READING AT BOISE STATE MAY 2
Alvin Greenberg will give a reading of his poetry at 7:30
p.m. Friday, May 2, in the Boise State University Student Union Lookout Room.
The event, presented by the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing, is
free and open to the public. Greenberg is a poet, fiction writer, essayist and
librettist. His collections of poetry include Why We Live With Animals
(Coffee House Press), Heavy Wings (Ohio Review Press) and In/Direction
(David R. Godine).
A collection of personal essays, The Dog of Memory: A
Family Album of Secrets and Silences, was published by the University of
Utah Press in 2002 and a new novel, Time Lapse, will be published this
spring by Tupelo Press. He has also collaborated on three operas with composer
Eric Stokes, most recently on Appollonia’s Circus, which premiered at
the University of Minnesota in 1994.
After teaching for 34 years in the Macalester College
English department in St. Paul, Minn., he now lives in Boise.
For more information on Greenberg’s poetry reading, call
426-3862.
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