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 8^th at MING Studios, 420 S 6^th 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 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 6^th 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

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.

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.