News Release

March 12, 2007


Poet Karen Volkman to Read as Part of Boise State's MFA Reading Series

Poet Karen Volkman will present a reading at 7:30 p.m. April 6 at Liberal Arts Room 106. Volkman’s appearance is part of the Boise State University MFA Reading Series and is free and open to the public.

Volkman is the author of “Spar,” winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize, and “Crash’s Law,” which was selected for the National Poetry Series by poet Heath McHugh. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including “The Best American Poetry” and “The Pushcart Prize Anthology.” She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings nationally known authors and poets to the Boise State campus. Past speakers include Rick Bass, Chris Offutt, Rae Armantrout, Michael Palmer, Alice Notley, Joy Williams and Denis Johnson.


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Contact: Dave Nicholas, MFA Reading Series, davidnicholas@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

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