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EVENT NEWS / September 12, 2007

Poet Lee Ann Brown to Read as Part of Boise State University's MFA Reading Series

Poet Lee Ann Brown will give a reading at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 in the Bishop Barnwell Room of the Boise State University Student Union. Brown’s reading is part of the MFA Reading Series and is free and open to the public.

Brown is the author of two books of poetry, “The Sleep That Changed Everything” and “Polyverse,” which won the New American Poetry Series Award. She has published many chapbooks, including “Sustain Petal,” “Velocity City,” “I like the use of emes,” “Crush” and more. One of her poems, “Sonnet Around Stephanie,” was included in the “Best American Poetry 2001” and her work has been included in “The Boston Review,” “Verse,” “Bombay Gin,” “The Little Magazine,” “Capilano Review” and “Pressed Wafer.”

Brown is also a singer, performer and filmmaker and the founder of Tender Buttons Press, which focuses on experimental women’s poetry. She has taught poetry workshops at Brown University and the Naropa Institute in Colorado. She now teaches at St. John’s University in New York.

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

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Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

Boise State University celebrates its 75th anniversary this fall. From its founding on Sept. 6, 1932, the institution has evolved from a small church-sponsored college in a downtown schoolhouse to a metropolitan research university of distinction with about 19,000 students. Visit boisestate.edu and click on the “75” button for more information.
 

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Last reviewed on Wednesday, September 12, 2007