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News Release
Sept. 19, 2006
Poet Kent Johnson to Give a Reading as
Part of Boise State's MFA Reading Series
Poet, editor and teacher Kent Johnson will give a reading at 7 p.m. Oct. 6 in
Liberal Arts Building Room 106 on the Boise State campus. Johnson’s appearance
is part of the MFA Reading Series and is free and open to the public.
Johnson, along with Craig Paulenich, is the editor of “Beneath a Single Moon:
Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry” and “Third Wave: The New Russian
Poetry.” During the Sandinista revolution in 1982 and 1983, Johnson worked in
the Nicaraguan countryside teaching basic literacy and adult education. His
experience led to his translation of “A Nation of Poets,” the most
representative translation in English of the working-class Talleres de Poesia.
He has edited the works of Araki Yasusada and has translated “The Miseries of
Poetry: Traductions from the Greek” and “Imminent Visitor: Selected Poems of
Jaime Saenz,” which won a PEN award for poetry in translation. A second book of
Saenz’s work, “The Night,” will soon be published by Princeton University Press.
His most recent book, “Epigramitis: 118 Living American Poets,” was published in
2006.
Johnson is the recipient of the 2004 National Endowment for the Arts literature
fellowship and teaches at Highland Community College in Illinois. He was named
the 2004 Illinois teacher of the year by the Illinois Community College Trustees
Association.
The MFA Reading Series brings nationally known authors and poets to the Boise
State campus. Past speakers include Rick Bass, Chris Offutt, Rae Armantrout,
Alice Notley, Michael Palmer, Joy Williams and Denis Johnson.
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Contact: Dave Nicholas, MFA program,
davidnicholas@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
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an all‑time state record with a fall enrollment of 18,876 students. Since 1996,
Boise State’s student population has increased 25 percent.
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