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Poets Laureate Of Idaho
The Poet Laureate of Idaho or Writer in Residence is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of Idaho. After 1982 the title was changed to Writer in Residence. Idaho Poets Laureate * Irene Welch Grissom (1923-1948) * Sudie Stuart Hager (1949-1982) List of Writers in Residence * Ron McFarland (1984-1985) * Robert Wrigley (1986-1987) * Eberle Umbach (1988-1989) * Neidy Messer (1990-1991) * Daryl Jones (1992-1993) * Clay Morgan (1994-1995) * Lance Olsen (1996-1998) * Bill Johnson (1999-2000) * Jim Irons (2001-2004) * Kim Barnes (2004-2006) * Anthony Doerr (2007-2010) * Brady Udall (2010-2013) * Diane Raptosh (2013-2016) * Christian Winn (2016-2019) * Malia Collins (2019-2021) * CMarie Fuhrman (2021–present) External linksPoets Laureate of Idaho at the Library of Congress See also * Poet laureate * List of U.S. states' poets laureate * United States Poet Laureate The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poet Laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age, respectively in 1315 and 1342. In Britain, the term dates from the appointment of Bernard André by Henry VII of England. The royal office of Poet Laureate in England dates from the appointment of John Dryden in 1668. In modern times a poet laureate title may be conferred by an organization such as the Poetry Foundation, which designates a Young People's Poet Laureate, unconnected with the National Youth Poet Laureate and the United States Poet Laureate. The office is also popular with regional and community groups. Examples include the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, which is designated by a "Presenting Partners" group from within the community, the Minnesota poet l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington and Oregon to the west. The state's capital and largest city is Boise. With an area of , Idaho is the 14th largest state by land area, but with a population of approximately 1.8 million, it ranks as the 13th least populous and the 7th least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. For thousands of years, and prior to European colonization, Idaho has been inhabited by native peoples. In the early 19th century, Idaho was considered part of the Oregon Country, an area of dispute between the U.S. and the British Empire. It officially became U.S. territory with the signing of the Oregon Treaty of 1846, but a separate Idaho Territory was not organized until 1863, instead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Welch Grissom
Irene Althea Welch Grissom (December 3, 1873 – July 14, 1965) was the first Poet Laureate of Idaho from 1923 to 1948. Early life Irene Althea Welch Grissom was born on December 3, 1873, in Greeley, Colorado, the daughter of William Pringle Welch (1834-1893) and Theresa Sobieski Crittenden (1841-1916). She obtained a Pd.B. from Colorado State Teachers’ College in Greeley in 1894; she did post-graduate work in 1927 and a summer school student at University of Montana in 1934 and at University of Colorado in 1937. Career She was a writer and entertainer. She was appointed poet laureate of Idaho by State Governor Charles C. Moore, in June 1923. She is the author of: * "The Superintendent", published in 1910 and endorsed by the American Library Association. "The Superintendent" was published by Alice Harriman, whose publishing company originated in Seattle in 1907. * "A Daughter of the Northwest" (1918) * "The Passing of the Desert" (1924), verses * "Verse of the New West" (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen (born October 14, 1956) is an American writer known for his experimental, lyrical, fragmentary, cross-genre narratives that question the limits of historical knowledge. Biography Lance Olsen was born in New Jersey. He received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1978, honors, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (1980), and an M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) from the University of Virginia. For ten years he taught as associate and then full professor at the University of Idaho; for two he directed the University of Idaho's M.F.A. program. He has also taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, the University of Kentucky, on summer and semester-abroad programs in Oxford and London, on a Fulbright in Turku, Finland, and at various writing conferences. Since 2007 he has taught experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah. From 2002 to 2018, he served as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Barnes
Kim Barnes (born 1958 Lewiston, Idaho) is a contemporary American author of fiction, memoir, and personal essays. She served as Poet Laureate of Idaho. Life She returned with her mother to their logging camp on Orofino Creek in the Clearwater National Forest, where her father worked as a lumberjack. For the next twelve years, she and her family lived in small communities and cedar camps in northern IdahoPierce, Headquarters, and a number of places along the North Fork of the Clearwater River. In 1970, her family moved to Lewiston, Idaho, where Barnes graduated from Lewiston High School in 1976. Barnes received her B.A. in English from Lewis-Clark State College in 1983, her M.A. in English from Washington State University in 1985, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Montana in 1995. Barnes teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho, and lives with her husband, Robert Wrigley, a poet, in Idaho. They have three children. Barnes's creative wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973) is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel ''All the Light We Cannot See'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Early life and education Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr attended the nearby University School, graduating in 1991. He then majored in history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, graduating in 1995. He earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University. Career Doerr's first book was a collection of short stories called ''The Shell Collector'' (2002). Many of the stories take place in countries within Africa and New Zealand, where he has worked and lived. His first novel, ''About Grace'', was released in 2004. His memoir, ''Four Seasons in Rome'', was published in 2007, and his second collection of short stories, ''Memory Wall,'' was published in 2010. Doerr's second novel, ''All the Light We Cannot See'', is set in occupied France during World War II and was publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brady Udall
Brady Udall is an American writer. In 2010, he was appointed Writer-in-Residence of Idaho, a position he held until 2013. Biography Udall grew up in a large Mormon family in St. Johns, Arizona. He graduated from Brigham Young University and later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa."Udall Mints a Dickens of a Tale in 'Miracle Life'" by Brandon Griggs, ''Salt Lake Tribune'', 17 June 2001,mirror of article He was formerly a faculty member of Franklin & Marshall College starting in 1998, then Southern Illinois University, and now teaches writing at Boise State University. A collection of his short stories titled ''Letting Loose the Hounds'' was published in 1998, and his debut novel ''The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint'' was first published in 2001. The characterization and structure of the latter has been favorably compared to the work of John Irving. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Raptosh
Diane Raptosh (born October 14, 1961) is an American poet of Sicilian/American descent who became the first poet laureate for Boise, Idaho, in 2013, a position that was eliminated after her tenure. A self-described "noted author, poet and educator," “highly active ambassador for poetry,” and “cutting-edge advocate,” Raptosh grew up in Idaho and attended the College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho, earning a BA in literature and modern languages. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, returning to teach undergraduates at the College of Idaho in 1990. She is the mother of Keats Conley, whose first book, Guidance from the Gods of Seahorses, was a finalist for the Wandering Aengus award and was published by Green Writers Press in 2021. Both mother and daughter use alliteration, assonance, and puns to craft whimsical poems. Raptosh received three literature fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and holds the Eyck-Berringer Endowed Chair in Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poet Laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age, respectively in 1315 and 1342. In Britain, the term dates from the appointment of Bernard André by Henry VII of England. The royal office of Poet Laureate in England dates from the appointment of John Dryden in 1668. In modern times a poet laureate title may be conferred by an organization such as the Poetry Foundation, which designates a Young People's Poet Laureate, unconnected with the National Youth Poet Laureate and the United States Poet Laureate. The office is also popular with regional and community groups. Examples include the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, which is designated by a "Presenting Partners" group from within the community, the Minnesota poet l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of U
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Poet Laureate
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry. The position was modeled on the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Begun in 1937, and formerly known as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the present title was devised and authorized by an Act of Congress in 1985. Appointed by the Librarian of Congress, the poet laureate's office is administered by the Center for the Book. For children's poets, the Poetry Foundation awards the Young People's Poet Laureate. The incumbent poet laureate (since 2022) is Ada Lim%C3%B3n. Overview The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry is appointed by the Librarian of Congress and usually serves a two-year term. In making the appointment, the Librarian consults with c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poets Laureate Of Idaho
The Poet Laureate of Idaho or Writer in Residence is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of Idaho. After 1982 the title was changed to Writer in Residence. Idaho Poets Laureate * Irene Welch Grissom (1923-1948) * Sudie Stuart Hager (1949-1982) List of Writers in Residence * Ron McFarland (1984-1985) * Robert Wrigley (1986-1987) * Eberle Umbach (1988-1989) * Neidy Messer (1990-1991) * Daryl Jones (1992-1993) * Clay Morgan (1994-1995) * Lance Olsen (1996-1998) * Bill Johnson (1999-2000) * Jim Irons (2001-2004) * Kim Barnes (2004-2006) * Anthony Doerr (2007-2010) * Brady Udall (2010-2013) * Diane Raptosh (2013-2016) * Christian Winn (2016-2019) * Malia Collins (2019-2021) * CMarie Fuhrman (2021–present) External linksPoets Laureate of Idaho at the Library of Congress See also * Poet laureate * List of U.S. states' poets laureate * United States Poet Laureate The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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