Poet Nathaniel Mackey To Read As Part Of Boise State University’s Mfa Reading Series
Poet Nathaniel Mackey will present a reading at 7:30 p.m. April 27 at the
Hemingway Center on the Boise State University campus. Mackey’s appearance
is part of the MFA Reading Series and is free and open to the public.
Mackey’s books of poetry include “Splay Anthem,” which won the 2006 National Book Award in poetry, “Whatsaid Serif,” “Song of the Andoumboulou,” “18-20,” “School of Udhra,” “Outlantish,” “Eroding Witness,” which was selected for the National Poetry Series, “Septet for the End of Time,” and “Four for Trane.” He is the author of an ongoing prose work, “From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate,” of which three volumes have been published: “Atet A.D.,” “Djbot Basghostus’ Run,” and “Bedouin Hornbook.”
Mackey is also a critic and literary theorist whose works include “Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing.” He is the editor of “American Poetry: The Twentieth Century” and “Moment’s Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose.” He also edits the magazine Hambone. In 1995, his “Strick: Song of the Adoumboulou 16-25,” a compact disc recording of poems read with musical accompaniment, was released.
Mackey is a professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American 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.