Stanford UniversityNews and information about Stanford University. News and information from the best feeds offered by Stanford University.Eavan Boland, Poet and Director of the Stanford Creative Writing Program- October 5, 2007 Eavan Boland is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford. Born in Dublin in the 1940s, she lives there when not in residence at Stanford. She has published nine volumes of poetry, her most recent being Domestic Violence. Boland is universally acknowledged as the preeminent female poet and contemporary writer of her native Ireland. &147;Boland is one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century. No one has articulated with more poise the...http://english.stanford.edu/index.php?news_id=141 |