September 23, 2004

Poet Michael Palmer to Read at Boise State Oct. 8

Michael Palmer, author of The Lion Bridge, will present a reading of his poetry at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 8, in the Boise State University Hemmingway Center. The reading is presented by the Boise State English Department’s Master of Fine Arts writing program, and is free and open to the public. Michael Palmer was born in New York and educated at Harvard. He has published fourteen books of poetry (The Lion Bridge draws on seven: Blake's Newton, The Circular Gates, Without Music, Notes for Echo Lake, First Figure, Sun and At Passages), and also translates works from Russian, Portuguese and French. His work has also appeared in literary magazines such as Boundary 2, Berkeley Poetry Review, Sulfur, Conjunctions and O-blek. He has received two grants from the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts and he was the Guggenheim Fellow of poetry for1989-90. This reading is the second of 10 readings presented by the MFA writing program during the 2004-2005 academic year. Upcoming readings in the fall series will be presented by David Abel and William L. Fox, Carol Snow and Doug Unger. -30- Contact: Mia Wright, Boise State MFA Program in Creative Writing, 426-2669 Media Contacts: Kathleen Craven, communications and marketing, 208 426-3275 Rachel Bonilla, communications and marketing, 208 426-3196