An Autumnal Poetry Reading

Lost Horse Press and the Sandpoint Library are pleased to announce a reading—An Autumnal Poetry Reading—featuring poets Christopher Howell and Jonathan Johnson. The reading takes place in the Rude Girls Room of the Sandpoint Library, located at the corner of Cedar and Division Streets in Sandpoint on 22 October 2011 from 3 until 5 pm. The reading is free and all are welcome. Refreshments will be served. The program is supported in part by a grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL’S eighth collection of poems, Light’s Ladder, won the Washington State Book Award in 2005. His poems, essays and translations have also appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Crazy Horse, Denver Quarterly, Field, Gettysburg Review, Harper’s, Hudson Review, Iowa Review, Northwest Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Review and Volt. He has been recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and two National Endowment fellowships, as well as a number of other awards. He teaches creative writing at Eastern Washington University.

JONATHAN JOHNSON’S two collections of poems—In the Land We Imagined Ourselves and Mastodon, 80% Complete—were published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry and other anthologies, as well as recent issues of Southern Review, Ploughshares, North American Review, and The Prairie Schooner. Johnson is also the author of a memoir, Hannah and the Mountain: Notes Toward a Wilderness Fatherhood, which was published in 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press in their American Lives Series. He is a professor at the Inland Northwest Center for Writers, the MFA program at Eastern Washington University. Johnson spends as much time as he can in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and at the secluded log cabin he and his wife built on the Johnson Family Farm in northern Idaho.

This program is sponsored in part by a generous grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.