Diane Raptosh & Cara Chamberlain

About this event

Elk River Books and Elk River Arts & Lectures present a reading, audience Q&A, and book signing with Idaho poet Diane Raptosh, author of I Eric America , and Billings poet and memoirist Cara Chamberlain, author of From Peaks to Prairie: The Gifts of Walking in an Anxious Life . The event will take place on Thursday, November 12, at Elk River Books, 122 S. 2nd St., Livingston. Doors open at 6:30 pm, with the program beginning at 7 pm.

A graduate of the University of Michigan MFA Program, Raptosh served as the Idaho Writer-in- Residence (2013-2016) and the Boise Poet Laureate (2013). Raptosh’s collection of sonnets, I Eric America , combines elements of family trauma with disturbances on the national stage. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Raptosh holds the Eyck-Berringer Endowed Chair in English at The College of Idaho, where she teaches literature and creative writing as well as directs the program in criminal justice/prison studies.

Cara Chamberlain received degrees in English and creative writing from the University of Utah (B.A.) and Purdue University (M.A.). She taught writing and literature for over 25 years in Wyoming, Maine, Canada, Florida, and Montana. Chamberlain is the author of three collections of poetry: Hidden Things , The Divine Botany , and Lament of the Antichrist in a Secular World and Other Poems . She has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. Currently, she works as a writer and freelance copy editor in Billings.

For those who can’t attend in person, the event will be live-streamed on the Elk River Books YouTube channel. For more information, email info@elkriverbooks.com or call (406) 333-2330.

From Elk River Books