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EVENT NEWS / October 31, 2007

Poets Paul Hoover, Maxine Chernoff to Read as Part of Boise State University MFA Reading Series

Poet Paul Hoover and novelist and poet Maxine Chernoff will read at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2 in the Hemingway Center at Boise State University. Their appearance is part of the MFA Reading Series and is free and open to the public.

Paul Hoover is the author of several poetry collections, including “Edge and Fold,” “Poems in Spanish,” “Winter,” “Rehearsal in Black,” “Totem and Shadow: New and Selected Poems,” “Viridian,” which was the winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition, and “Idea,” which won the Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry. He is the author of a collection of essays on contemporary poetry, “Fables of Representation,” and his work has been published in many literary magazines. He has appeared in several editions of “The Best American Poetry” and is a respected editor; he currently edits “New American Writing” with Chernoff. He teaches at San Francisco State University.

Chernoff is the author of three novels: “A Boy in Winter,” “American Heaven,” a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and “Plain Grief.” She is also the author of three collections of short stories, “Some of Her Friends That Year: New and Selected Stories,” “Signs of Devotion,” a New York Times notable book of the year, and “Bop.” Chernoff also has seven collections of poetry. She has been published in numerous literary magazines, including “Ploughshares,” “The Paris Review” and “The Iowa Review.” Chernoff is the chair of the creative writing program at San Francisco State University and lives in Mill Valley, Calif., with Hoover and their three children.

Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings nationally renowned authors and poets to the Boise State 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

For the 10th time in the last 11 years, Boise State University has set an all-time record for Idaho higher education institutions with an enrollment of 19,540 – an overall increase of 3.5 percent. A record freshman class of 2,280 students is also the most academically talented group ever to enter Boise State, including 12 National Merit finalists.


 

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Last reviewed on Wednesday, October 31, 2007