February 23, 2005 Poet Thalia Field To Read At Boise State March 11

Thalia Field, author of Point and Line, will present a reading of her poetry at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 11, at the Boise State University Student Union Farnsworth Room. 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.   Published by New Directions in 2000, Field’s Point and Line is described by Katherine Kaspar as “a playful and intelligent experiment with language and genre.” She now has a second collection, titled Incarnate: STORY MATERIAL, which explores how the human form experiences both suffering and ecstasy from childhood through adulthood and death. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Chain, Avec, Central Park, Chicago Review, FC2’s New Women’s Fiction Anthology, Salt Hill, Fracture and Conjunctions. She has taught creative writing at Bard University and Naropa University’s Department of Writing and Poetics and Summer Writing Program. Field currently serves on the editorial board of Chain and Play: A Journal of Plays, and teaches creative arts and writing at Brown University.   This reading is part of a series of readings presented by the MFA writing program during the spring 2005 semester. Upcoming readings will be presented by Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, Peter Gizzi and Elizabeth Willis, and Joy Williams.   -30-   Contact: Mia Wright, Boise State MFA Program in Creative Writing, 426-2669   Media Contacts: Kathleen Craven, communications and marketing, 208 426-3275