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News Release
April 13, 2007
Boise State MFA Reading Series Concludes Year with Writers Ben
Doyle and Sandra Miller
The final MFA Reading Series presentation of the year will feature Ben Doyle and
Sandra Miller at 7 p.m. April 28 at Piazza di Vino, 212 N. 9th Street. Doyle and
Miller are the 2007 Distinguished Visiting Writers at Boise State. The reading
is free and open to the public.
Doyle’s first collection of poems, “Radio,” was selected by Susan Howe for the
2000 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. His poems can be
found in current and forthcoming issues of “Boston Review,” “Tin House,” “Denver
Quarterly” and “Indiana Review.” His new manuscript, “Dead Ahead,” is
forthcoming from Ahsahta Press. Doyle co-edits the Kuhl House Books contemporary
poetry series of the University of Iowa Press.
Miller’s first book, “Oriflamme,” was published by Ahsahta Press in 2005.
Selections from her new work, “Chora,” have appeared in “Aufgabe,” “Verse,”
“Crowd,” “La Petite Zine” and “The Canary.” She is also a recent recipient of
the Paul Engle-James Michener Fellowship.
When not in Boise, the married couple lives in Roanoke, Va., with their dog.
Doyle teaches creative expression, and Miller teaches at Hollins University.
Selections from Doyle and Miller's collaborative visual sonnet series, “The
Sonneteers,” are currently appearing in OxMag, “Disaster3,” “Area Sneaks” and
“Outside Voices Anthology of Younger Poets.”
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 Program,
davidnicholas@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
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