Saturday, March 13th (1:00PM)
BENGAL CAFE (IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY)
Host: Ronald Snake Edmo
Readers: Ronald Snake Edmo, Khalila Roybal
Host Ronald Snake Edmo will show his film, Dammen Newe Sogobia and present his poem, "The Only Good Indian." Also presenting will be Khalila Roybal, the current Fort Hall Elementary Princess.
Saturday, March 13th (5:00PM)
REMEMBRANCE OF POETS PAST
Saturday, March 13th (7:00PM)
FINALE READING
Host: Leslie Leek
Readers: Star Coulbrooke, Karen Homstad, Bethany Schultz Hurst, Ray Obermayr, Cathy Peppers, Gino Sky
Star Coulbrooke coordinates Helicon West, a Cache Valley Open Readings/Featured Readers Series; Beat Poetry Night, an annual Utah State University event which will merge Beat and Slam in March 2009; and Poetry at Three, a long-standing writing group based in Logan, Utah. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies such as Poetry International, Ellipsis, Hunger Magazine, and others. She co-authored a chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press 2003), with the late Kenneth W. Brewer, former poet laureate of Utah. In 2008, her manuscript, River Once Removed, won finalist designations in the May Swenson Contest (Utah State University Press) and the Philip Levine Contest (UC Irvine), and second place in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Contest. Star directs the USU Writing Center full-time and occasionally teaches writing workshops. She lives in Smithfield with her man, their three dogs, and one ailing cat.
Karen Homstad attended Pocatello High School and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Nevada Reno with a degree in Creative Writing and Women’s Studies. Recipient of UNR’s Thelma Ireland Writing Scholarship in 2000, her writing interests include narrative poetry and short-short fiction. Her hobbies are swimming, Nordic skiing, and yoga. She likes brown dogs and craft projects that combine text & image. In the past, Karen has honed her storytelling skills as a bartender and most recently, as a headhunter. She currently coaches the local swim team.
Bethany Schultz Hurst holds an MFA from The Inland Northwest Center for Writers (Eastern Washington University). Her poems appear in or are forthcoming in journals such as Rattle, Smartish Pace, RHINO, The Cortland Review, and Cream City Review. Currently, she teaches writing at Idaho State University.
Ray Obermayr lives and assembles words and colors in Pocatello. His published works are, "Double You Double You Too" and "Too Much is Just Enough," by Limberlost Press.
Cathy Peppers lives on a one-hundred-year-old farmstead with superfluous creatures, including almost a blackjack of cats, two horses, a motley of chickens and a goat. Her poetry is loosely collecting in two manuscripts, Creatures of the Edge and regressing forward / love poems in middle age.
Gino Sky (bio forthcoming)