Nationally acclaimed poet and professor Robin Behn to visit ISU Feb. 8
January 23, 2019
POCATELLO – On Feb. 8, 色花堂app Creative Writing will host nationally acclaimed poet and professor Robin Behn, who will give a poetry reading and a talk on teaching high school and college creative writing at 5:30 p.m. in the Pond Student Union Bengal Café.
The event is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
Behn鈥檚 work is noted for its spellbinding musical quality. Mark Doty, who selected Behn鈥檚 鈥淗orizon Note鈥� for the Brittingham Prize, writes in his judge鈥檚 citation that 鈥溾�楬orizon Note鈥� turns speech into music, even as it resists and questions the slippery, beloved, difficult stuff it's made of.鈥�
Behn is a full professor who teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Program for Creative Writing at the University of Alabama. She has published five books of poetry including 鈥淧aperbird,鈥� the winner of the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Prize in Poetry, and most recently 鈥淨uarry Cross.鈥� Her poems have been included in the 鈥淏est American鈥� and 鈥淧uschart鈥� anthologies, and she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
In addition to her award-winning volumes of poetry, Behn has co-edited a collection of poetry exercises titled 鈥淭he Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach鈥� by HarperCollins, that is widely used in university teaching. She also has a book forthcoming about creative writing activities for high schoolers titled 鈥淥nce Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century: Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing,鈥� by the University of Alabama Press.
Her work in support of high school creative writing was awarded the University of Alabama鈥檚 Office of Social Responsibility Community Development Award.
Behn鈥檚 visit is made possible by support from the ISU Cultural Events Committee, ISU College of Education, and 鈥淏lack Rock & Sage.鈥�
For more information, visit or contact schubeth@isu.edu with questions.
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