News Release
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March 21, 2006
Writers Keith and Rosemarie Waldrop to Read at Boise State as
Part of MFA Series
The husband-and-wife team of Keith and Rosemarie Waldrop will give a reading
at 7:30 p.m. April 14 in the Hemingway Center at Boise State University.
Their appearance, which is part of the annual Boise State MFA Reading
Series, is free and open to the public.
The Waldrops are writers, translators and co-publishers. They also co-edit
Burning Deck Press, which in 2001 celebrated its 40th anniversary. Together
they have worked on various projects including Ceci n’est pas Keith/Ceci
n’est pas Rosmarie, an autobiography written about their shared life and
the poetics of identity.
Keith Waldrop’s first book of poems, A Windmill Near Calvary,
published by the University of Michigan Press, was nominated for the
National Book Award. Keith Waldrop also has received a National Endowment of
the Arts translation fellowship and stipends from the NEA, the DAAD Berlin
Artists’ Program and the Fund for Poetry. The French government has given
him the rank of Chevalier des arts et des letters. Today he is a professor
of Literary Arts at Brown University.
Rosemarie Sebald Waldrop is both a translator and poet. Her works include
Blindsight (New Directions), Love Like Pronouns (Omnidawn) and
Split Infinites (Springing Horse Press). She has also written one book
of criticism, Against Language? (Mouton), and many articles and
reviews. She also has received a Columbia Translation Center Award. She was
educated at the universities of Freiburg, Aix-Marseille and Michigan, holds
a Ph.D. in comparative literature, and is an NEA fellow.
Free and open to the public, the Boise State MFA Reading Series brings
nationally known authors and poets to the Boise State campus. Past speakers
includes Rick Bass, Chris Offutt, Rae Armantrout, Liz Waldner, Joy Williams
and Denis Johnson.
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Contact: Elizabeth L. Barnes, MFA program,
elizabethlester@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
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