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Boise State News July 15, 2021
The nineteenth issue of The Idaho Review, the annual literary journal of Boise State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, is now available in the campus bookstore and online at boisestatebooks.com or at idahoreview.org.
This issue includes new fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and its contributors represent an exciting range of voices, from established writers to emerging talents. Contributors include Rick Bass, Victoria Lancelotta, Brandon Shimoda, Nicole Cullen, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Amy Silverberg, Sanam Mahloudji, and Amy Roa. Many of the writers in the issue have appeared in top national prize anthologies, and their work has earned honors including the PEN Open Book Award, The Story Prize, and the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize. The new cover art (Narwhal Rain) is by award-winning illustrator Bill Carman, a professor at Boise State.
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The Nassar Poetry Prize is awarded to one upstate New York poet for their published collection of works.
The winner of this year’s Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize at Utica College is Shira Dentz, with her book, “Sisyphusina.”
Sisyphusina is a collection of poetry, visual art and improvisatory music that focuses on the concept of female aging. The book crosses many genres in its attempt to create new language to share the process of a changing identity. The book also touches on conventional beauty and embracing a new aesthetic.
An upstate New York poet and educator, Dentz has written five books, two chapbooks, and had her work featured on multiple platforms including