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Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, (304) 696-7153
 

Poet Marianne Boruch to read from her work Sept. 24 at Marshall

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Poet Marianne Boruch will read from her work at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24 in Room 2W16 of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus.

Boruch’s appearance, sponsored by the Marshall English department and the College of Liberal Arts, is free to the public.

Boruch’s latest collection is Poems: New and Selected, from Oberlin College Press. She is the author of four other books of poetry, including A Stick that Breaks and Breaks and Moss Burning. She also is the author of two books of essays on poetry – In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations, and Poetry’s Old Air.

Her poems and essays have been published in such periodicals as The New Yorker; The Nation; Iowa Review; The Georgia Review, and The American Poetry Review. She has appeared in such anthologies as The Best American Poetry 1997; Boomer Girls; Poets of the New Century; Poets Reading: The Field Symposia, and others.

She received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Terrence DePres Award from Parnassus.

Boruch has taught at Purdue University since 1987 and directed the M.F.A. program there from its beginning in 1987 until 2005.

For more information, call Art Stringer in the English department at (304) 696-2403.

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