News Release

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October 4, 2005

Poet Martha Ronk will give a reading at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14 in the Jordan Ballroom A at the Boise State University Student Union. Her appearance is part of the Boise State MFA Program Reading Series. Her reading is free and open to the public.

Ronk has published seven books of poetry, including In a Landscape of Having to Repeat, Why/Why Not, Evetrouble, State of Mind and Displeasures of the Table. She is an Irma and Jay Price professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her short fiction has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Chicago Review and the Southern Review, among others.

Ronk is the winner of the PEN Center USA 2005 Literary Award for poetry. The judges said of her entry, In a Landscape of Having to Repeat: “Once and again, In a Landscape of Having to Repeat is an addictively liberating poetic exploration of repetition in familiar and new language … a delightful addition to our contemporary literary canon.”

The next lecture in the MFA Reading Series on Nov. 11 will feature poets Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith.

Contact: Elizabeth Lester, MFA program, elizabethlester@boisestate.edu

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Last reviewed on Thursday, December 22, 2005