The Boise State Creative Writing MFA Reading Series presents poet and essayist Hannah Brooks-Motl, "a poet of spectacular insight, formal dexterity, and lucid sensory textures" (Zach Savish, The Cleveland Review of Books). Brooks-Motl will give a reading of her work, followed by a Q and A, at 7:30 PM on Friday, April 11, 2025 in The Hemingway Center. Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings renowned writers to campus each year.

"Hannah Brooks-Motl can write a killer line and her stunning voice is alive turning every which way, always surprising chiseled densities, ambitious interiors with patches of glory and the need to sing. Here is a vital accounting of life lived, a 'diamond text' wanting to communicate so deep inside and yet always touching upon the diaristic circumstances of the world. This brilliant book, her first book, is a gem."—Peter Gizzi

"These ambitious and gorgeous poems [in 'M'] are continuously surprising, pushing language into a secret landscape, or a secret history of the intellect. Every turn of phrase, every figure and gesture flickers open, making manifest the intimate and precipitous experience of reading into and with the past, alongside its fragments and tendencies."—Juliana Leslie

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Hannah Brooks-Motl authored the poetry collections "The New Years" (2014), "M" (2015), "Earth" (2019,) and "Ultraviolet of the Genuine" (2025), as well as chapbooks from the Song Cave, "arrow as aarow," and "The Year." Her poetry, essays, and criticism appear in the Best American Experimental Writing, the Cambridge Literary Review, the Chicago Review, Modernism/modernity, post-45, and in edited collections and anthologies from Cambridge University Press, Wesleyan University Press, and the New York Review of Books. She earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a PhD from the University of Chicago. She lives in western Massachusetts.