The MFA Reading Series has scheduled two exciting events in February.
The first is on Wednesday, February 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Union Building, Bishop Barnwell room featuring Jerome Rothenberg.
Rotherberg is an internationally celebrated poet, translator and performer with over ninety books of poetry and twelve assemblages of traditional and avant-garde poetry. His most recent big books are “Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader” and “Barbaric Vast & Wild: Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present” (volume five of “Poems for the Millennium”). A new book of poems, “A Field on Mars: Poems 2000-2015,” will appear this year in separate English and French editions. This reading is free and open to the public.
The second is on Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. The Cabin (801 S Capitol Blvd) with Peter Manson reading from his acclaimed translations of the 19th century French poet Stéphane Mallarmé, as well as from his 2014 collection “For the Good of Liars,” comprising satires against the Ego, lettriste feedback squawk and casket bombs. This event is free and open to the public.
Peter Manson lives in Glasgow, Scotland. His books include “Poems of Frank Rupture” (Sancho Panza Press), “English in Mallarmé” (Blart Books), “Adjunct: an Undigest” and “For the Good of Liars” (both from Barque Press), and “Between Cup and Lip” (Miami University Press, Ohio). Miami UP also publish his book of translations, “Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse” (shortlisted for the Popescu Prize, 2013). For more information about Peter Manson visit this website petermanson.wordpress.com.
Podcasts of many of the Series readings are available at PennSound here: http://tinyurl.com/84pw9r3.
For more information about the MFA Reading Series, contact Maya Duratovic (mayaduratovic@boisestate.edu)