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For Immediate Release: THE CABIN, a center for readers & writers and Ghosts & Projectors Join Forces

October 30, 2017 by Megan

 

First reading will feature Emily Ruskovich and Zachary Schomburg

BOISE – On October 31, 2017, The Cabin announced that it will be adopting the successful Ghosts & Projectors reading series for its upcoming 2017-18 season. Ghosts & Projectors is a reading series that pairs emerging, innovative, and experimental writers with writers from the Treasure Valley. Since its founding in 2011, Ghosts & Projectors has welcomed poets such as Eileen Myles, Kate Greenstreet, CA Conrad, Cathy Park Hong, and Bhanu Kapil thanks to the support of the Boise City Department of Arts & History. Under the direction of The Cabin, the series will continue to focus on bringing poets to our community as well as emerging fiction and nonfiction writers, graphic novelists, and writers that fall outside the mainstream. This season will be sponsored by Boise State University.

According to Executive Director Kurt Zwolfer, “Ghosts & Projectors is a perfect fit for The Cabin. The program’s commitment to featuring local writers alongside the best emerging and experimental authors from around the nation complements our long-running Readings & Conversation series. Quite simply, by hosting a more diverse range of authors, The Cabin can better serve the always growing community of readers, writers, and book lovers in southwestern Idaho.”

The Cabin will launch the series with Mammother author Zachary Schomburg of Portland, Idaho author Emily Ruskovich of Idaho City, and poet Kathryn Jensen of Boise on Friday, December 8th at MING Studios, 420 S 6th St, at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $3 for Cabin members and students and $5 for the general public and will be available through The Cabin’s website, by calling (208) 331-8000, or at the door.

Zachary Schomburg and Emily Ruskovich

Zachary Schomburg is the author of a novel, Mammother (Featherproof, 2017) and four books of poems published by Black Ocean. He is the editor and publisher of Octopus Books, an independent poetry press. He lives in Portland, OR.

Emily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho Panhandle on Hoodoo Mountain. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, One Story, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a winner of the 2015 O. Henry Award. Her acclaimed debut novel, Idaho, was released in 2017 and was noted by The New York Times as one of the most anticipated books of the year. Ruskovich is the newest faculty addition to Boise State University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. She lives in Idaho City.

Kathryn Jensen is an MFA candidate in poetry at Boise State University with interests in media, technology, and narrative. She watches a lot of television, and has an essay featured in an forthcoming critical anthology on the series True Detective.

In Brief

Ghosts & Projectors presented by The Cabin featuring Zachary Schomburg, Emily Ruskovich, Kathryn Jensen

Where: MING Studios, 420 S 6th St, Boise

When: December 8, 2017, 7:00 PM (doors at 6:30)

Tickets: Tickets are $3 for Cabin members and students and $5 for the public and can be purchased online at TheCabinIdaho.org or by calling The Cabin at (208) 331-8000. Tickets will also be available when doors open.

The Cabin is a Boise, Idaho literary arts organization. We forge community through the voices of all readers, writers, and learners. The Cabin is open Monday-Friday, 9 am-5 pm

 

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Intern Ashley’s Insights On Summer Writing at The Cabin!

July 25, 2017 by Katie Fuller

Intern Ashley Hernandez reflects upon her experience this summer at The Cabin. 

When I heard about a place where student go and  explore the wonders of Boise, ID, I knew that is where I wanted to be in the Summer of 2017. A friend of mine once spoke to me about The Cabin. With the help of TRIO Upward Bound I applied and got the internship. My name is Ashley Hernandez and I will be a Senior at Caldwell High School in the fall. My passion for writing began my sophomore year when I took a Liberal Arts Class and after I graduate I hope to attend the College of Idaho and be a part of the Peak program with a major in either English or Creative Writing.

The Cabin is one of the prettiest views I’ve seen in a small building. Bright green trees are surrounded and beautiful flowers bloom in the radiant sun, giving me chills of happiness. The moment I stepped into the building I felt like it was a place I could be myself and that I was finally was with people I could relate to.

The days working at front desk were just as exciting as the days I got to be a part of the workshops. At the Front desk I got to see behind the scenes of The Cabin and how hard everyone works to create an amazing environment for the campers and the parents of the campers. I also got to work with spreadsheets and nervously answer phone calls which helped me learn to break out of my shy shell a little more.

During camps I got to see how happy kids became being able to write. It was also interesting hearing what everyone wrote because I was so amazed with the creative poems, stories, and etc. that were written. The teachers were a huge part of it and they always made me feel welcomed and helped me in ways to become a better writer myself. I also loved sitting with kids and hearing about their stories and getting to know them. After I finish my internship I hope to come attend one of the camps for older kids or even be a TA. It’s been an opportunity that I will always cherish and never forget.

 

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Summer Writing Camp Poem Sampler, June 2017

June 28, 2017 by Megan

Camps are here and young writers are sweeping the tops of our heads right off with the amazing work they’re sharing with us. Here are two.

MIDNIGHT BIRD
Kaisa
Grade 7, Summer Writing Camps

Birds are freaks of day old night
Their migration a traditional dance
Barefooted arabesques of summer
Their feathers mosaics of grey, iron, and sun.
Eagles are heartbreakers, queens, ninjas
Taking the last apocalypse of tomorrow as
A broken promise, a message, a song
“Listen
you are a black sheep,
your friends are poets.”
Midnight shines with
A perfect, magnetic, musical scream
Everything has thrones,
Has substance, is lonely
The backlash of darkness
Is a diamond.
You are a fool
To believe in glitter
In nothing
In snobs and nerds
In magic and in stone.

 

WHO I AM
by Myra, Grade 3, Summer Writing Camps

I am a golden eagle soaring into the clear sky.
I am a gray wolf sheltered from the rain.
I am a rattlesnake slithering up a vine.
I am a spider monkey swinging from branch to branch.
I am a black cat awake at night.
I am a mouse crawling quietly like the wind.
I am as curious as a fawn.
I am as hardworking as a beaver.
I am as free as a butterfly.
I am the world
as it is lifting me
from the ground.

 

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Wildlife Words at the World Center for Birds of Prey

June 7, 2017 by The Cabin

Science and the humanities share the goal of helping humans understand our place in the natural world. At the World Center for Birds of Prey, learn from scientists about important birds of prey conservation projects and then strike out with your Cabin teaching-writer to transform your new knowledge into wildlife-inspired poems and short stories. Birds of Prey camp will take place this year Tuesday, July 18th through Saturday, July 22nd.

Foci for Student Learning:

  • Engaging with research and scientific ways of understanding the natural world to find inspiration to write creatively
  • Reflective journaling to process nature and science learning
  • Analyze nature/environmental creative texts to learn about craft
  • Writing, thinking, and talking about conservation/environment and the role of writing in encouraging and defining these concepts
  • Learn to use place as more than a backdrop
  • Producing nature and science inspired poems and stories
  • Reflecting on the artist’s role in questions of our natural environment and conservation
  • Responding to what works in one another’s work
  • Offering constructive critique for peer’s work towards revision
  • Revising for publication

Essential Questions Students Will Investigate:

  • What is the role of an artist in communicating honestly about the natural world?
  • How do we bridge arts and sciences? How does writing do that?
  • Can writers work on ideas related to conservation? The natural world?
  • How do we use nature as inspiration?
  • How do we write about physical experience?
  • What is nature?

 

2016 Excerpts from our World Center for Birds of Prey campers

CALIFORNIA CONDORS
Sebastian Wampler
Grade 6, Boise

Their wings like
a redwood tree
as large as a giant
as loud as a
roaring, tumbling waterfall
hooked beak like the
sharpest rock
talons as strong
as diamonds
eyes so strong
they can see for miles
as invulnerable as they might seem
their life is like a twig about to be
stepped on.

 

ROBIN VERSES OWL
Reese Burak
Grade 4, Boise

Oh no! Danger danger danger! It’s . . . it’s . . . it’s an owl. It’s going to eat us and our babies with his sharp talons and beak. Fly over here. Let’s mob that owl. It’s going to eat my babies. It’s going to eat my babies. No, it’s going to eat my babies. I bet you don’t even have a nest. I have a nest. 3-2-1 kill it! Oh no. It got away. Oh no? That’s good.

 

DREAMS OF OWLS
Jane McKeon
Grade 4, Boise

Owls dream about mice scurrying through a field.
Owls dream of attacking birds.
Owls dream of sleeping while day.
Owls dream of winning a Bob dance challenge.
Owls dream of soaring through the sky looking for yummy mice.
Owls dream of having chicks and raising them to be strong and healthy.
Owls dream of all their territory enclosed by chicks hatching.
Sometimes owls dream of evil.
They dream of drinking their wonderful water.
Owls mostly like to dream of other animals.

 

OWL NIGHTMARE
Heron Rohweder
Grade 4, Boise

One night
Flying like a floating cloud
Soaring, then suddenly,
Could it be?
A million mice roaming under me.
They are all so juicy
With flavor galore.
I think I’ll eat some
And save some to store.
Problem coming.
Snowy the messenger:
Letter for me,
And guess what? I had to see
Bob the kestrel flying above me.
He soared down
And said,
“I challenge you to a dance competition.”
“You’re on.”
I wiggled and giggled
Then suddenly I moved my head.
Oh no! Bob won instead.

 

MY DREAM AS A KESTREL
Ginger Wampler
Grade 4, Boise

I woke up this morning, and I was an American kestrel. I was so confused. Where am I? Where are my arms? Where are my legs? I’m in a large room. I can’t understand myself. What am I saying? I go to my brother’s room to see if he is a bird. He is. We both go downstairs. And then go outside. We try flying but we cannot figure out how it works. We finally get it. We are soaring above the ground. It is so amazing. All the flowers and just everything. I realize that people do not know how it feels to have wings. I see something on the ground. It is a mouse. I stay still in the air. I dive . . . and grab it with my talons. It’s dying. Blood is rushing out of it. I land and eat it. Then I wake up. I’m in my bed. And I’m a human.

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Meet the Intern – Fall Edition!

September 8, 2016 by The Cabin

Hi everyone! My name is Lianne and I’ll be joining The Cabin this fall semester as one of the interns. I’m so excited to be working with such a great organization who loves to read and write as much as I do. I was first introduced to The Cabin from an email looking for teaching assistants to volunteer at The Cabin’s Summer Youth Writing Camps. I was really sad after TA-ing my last writing camp group and wanted to do more.

So now I’m here and am very excited to be working with The Cabin again. The first Cabin event I ever went to was when George Saunders lectured at The Egyptian theatre and I absolutely loved it! I thought it was amazing for an organization to spread their love of writing and reading to the public and encourage them to unleash their creativity. This fall, I am looking forward to getting to know The Cabin community more and gain a better insight on how a non-profit works. So far, there is way more to a business than I thought and how much time it takes to organize/stay on top of things.

Outside of The Cabin, I am a full-time student athlete at Boise State University- majoring in English with Teaching Emphasis. I also am a gymnast on the Boise State Gymnastics team where I will be going into my third year. Ultimately, I want to become an Elementary School Teacher. I am from a small town called Shrewsbury in Massachusetts. Most importantly, I hope to gain business skills, experience, and connections after my internship. Hope to see you stop by at the front desk!

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