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Featured Poets |
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| Ezra Pound
Born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885, Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry. |
| Robert Wrigley
Director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Idaho, Robert Wrigley is the author of In the Bank of Beautiful Sins, the winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award and a Lenore Marshall Award finalist. |
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Other Idaho Poets
Ron McFarland
Margaret Aho
Gary Gildner
Alvin Greenberg
Chuck Guilford
William Studebaker |
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Literary Organizations & Centers |
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Idaho Commission on the Arts
Idaho Commission on the Arts promotes artistic excellence and access to the arts for all through its grants and awards programs. The organization supports education in the arts with its program Tumblewords, which brings writers into communities to give readings and conduct writing workshops with residents who may be underexposed to creative writing because of geographical or economic circumstances.
Idaho Humanities Council
Idaho Humanities Council is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the humanities in Idaho by supporting educational programs for the general public and various target audiences and by issuing grants.
Idaho Writers Archive
Founded in 1988, the Idaho Writers Archive gathers together a diverse body of materials that have helped to shape the state's literary identity. Books, literary magazines, and manuscripts form the core of the collection. Correspondence, diaries, personal papers, contracts, reviews, audio recordings, videos, photographs, and other materials are also included. The Archive is housed at the Hemingway Western Studies Center at Boise State University.
The Cabin, A Literary Center
The Cabin, A Literary Center, is a nonprofit organization serving writers and readers with educational and cultural programs by providing workshops for adults and emerging writers, resources for writers pursuing a career in publishing, and a "Writers in the Schools" program.
Idaho Writers League
Founded in 1940, the IWL is a non-profit organization formed to recognize the accomplishments of Idaho writers; to provide a unified organization for writers; to exchange ideas through the League publication, the IWL Leagazette, and local and state meetings; and to stimulate writing by means of contests and recognition awards. The League also hosts an annual writers conference. |
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Readings Series, Conferences & Literary Festivals |
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Rocky Mountain Writers Festival
This week-long annual festival features a variety of readings held in various venues throughout Pocatello. The events are free and open to the public and bring writers from across the state and region.
Sun Valley Writers' Conference
This conference brings readers and writers together to consider ideas set forth in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and filmmaking.
The Cabin's Annual Reading Series and Conversations
Presenting nationally-acclaimed literary figures sharing their work, thoughts about their work, and perspectives on important issues of our time. The series begins in the fall and runs through spring, with subscriptions available beginning in April.
Idaho Writers League Conference
Three days of workshops, readings and various presentations. |
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Poems about Idaho |
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Idaho Requiem
by Ron McFarland
Out here, we don't talk about culture...
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Writing Programs & Colonies |
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Boise State University
In addition to the M.F.A. program, the University started Idaho Skylights, a program that prints previously published Idaho-related poems by native poets on posters that appear on school buses. Boise State University also runs Ahsahta Press; Idaho Review; cold-drill; Free Poetry; and publishes The Western Writers Series, which provides brief, authoritative introductions to writers and classic texts of the American West.
University of Idaho
The M.F.A. program is an intense, three-year course of study that focuses on teaching, and learning, the craft of writing. The creative writing program also sponsors readings by a wide variety of other writers throughout each semester and serves as home to the literary magazine Fugue and the University of Idaho Press.
Idaho Writing Camps
Each summer, Idaho Writing Camps offer children and youth in grades 4-12 the opportunity to explore and engage in creative writing adventures—and to become published authors! Each week-long camp culminates in a public reading, giving campers a chance to share their stories with family and friends. The collective experience of summer camps result in the publication of an anthology of individual writings in an artful, perfect-bound book. Every student enrolled in a summer camp receives a free copy.
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Literary Journals & Small Presses |
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Ahsahta Press
A not-for-profit literary publisher founded at Boise State University to preserve the best works by early poets of the American West, including many under published women poets. The press also publishes contemporary poets and administers the Sawtooth Poetry Prize.
Confluence Press
Confluence Press publishes trade books of poetry, fiction, novels, history, essays, literary criticism, photography, art, science, and folklore with a special interest in the literature of the contemporary American West.
Idaho Review
Boise State's literary magazine, which publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Free Poetry
Published by the MFA Creative Writing department at Boise State University, this publication features essays and poetry from today's leading poets.
Limberlost Press
Poetry chapbooks are letterpress printed on archival-quality papers and sewn by hand into limited editions for collectors and other discerning readers.
Lost Horse Press
A nonprofit independent press committed to publishing poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction titles of high literary merit, Lost Horse Press makes available fine contemporary Northwest literature and administers The Lost Horse Northwest Poetry Series for Emerging Writers.
University of Idaho Press
University of Idaho Press publishes eight to ten new titles a year, including some poetry.
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Many thanks to Robert Wrigley for helping to compile this information. |
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