AWARD-WINNING PUBLICATIONS
The MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State supports an award-winning literary magazine, The Idaho Review, and Free Poetry, a press featuring essays, poems, and translations from today’s leading poets. Graduate and undergraduate students have the opportunity to take hands-on, practical classes in writing, editing, and design for professional advancement (which includes work with The Idaho Review).
THE IDAHO REVIEW
Editor Mitch Wieland founded The Idaho Review in 1998 with the intent of creating a national, high-quality literary annual. Since that time, The Idaho Review has consistently won praise and awards. Stories published in the magazine have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, New Stories from the South, and Best of the West. Contributors to the review have included Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Rick Bass, Joy Williams, Madison Smartt Bell, Pam Houston, Stuart Dybek, and Edith Pearlman. MFA students may participate in the magazine’s production through a graduate assistantship and coursework. See The Idaho Review website for more information.
FREE POETRY
Since 2005, with the inaugural publication of Jeremy Hooker’s Reflections on Ground and Seventeen Poems, Free Poetry has been publishing poetry, essays and translations by new and established poets from around the world. All Free Poetry books and chapbooks are available free of charge and without copyright. Readers are encouraged to photocopy or download the chapbooks and to distribute them ad infinitum. In 2020, Free Poetry began publishing books that focused on poetics. Cole Swensen’s And And And (first published by Free Poetry in 2022) was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2024.
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