Rocky Mountain Writers' Festival – April 2 - 7

Rocky Mountain Writers' Festival (April 2nd – 7th)

Readings Start at 7:00pm (with an additional reading Saturday afternoon at 3:00pm)
Various Venues throughout Pocatello

Monday, April 2nd - Piccolo Gallery (7:00pm)
Reader: Judy Doenges

Tuesday, April 3rd - The College Market (7:00pm)
Readers: Michael Corrigan, Joan Juskie, Leslie Leek, Stephen Mead, Amil Quayle, Anne Vest, and Bill Woodhouse

Wednesday, April 4th - Mocha Madness (7:00pm)
Readers : Poets from Ft. Hall

Thursday, April 5th - The College Market (7:00pm)
Readers: Erin Gray, Robin Dudley, Brandon Hall, Jen Hawkins, Jessica Jensen, Anne Merkley, and Jeff Pearson

Friday, April 6th - Main Street Coffee & News (7:00pm)
Readers: Margaret Aho, Ray Obermayr, Cathy Peppers, Will Peterson, Susan Swetnam, and Harald Wyndham

Saturday, April 7th - Old Town Pocatello Building (3:00pm)
Readers: Sandy Anderson, Star Coulbrooke, Susan Goslee, J. Ely Shipley, and Jennifer Tonge
Saturday, April 7th - Portneuf Valley Brewing (7:00pm)
Readers: Karen Homstad and Jonathan Johnson

All events are free and open to the public. Please visit the festival website: http://www.rockymountainwriters.com/ for author bios and full schedule details as well as information about each venue.

ISU's Literary Association Marathon Reading – April 5

he Literary Association presents its second annual marathon reading. The texts will be Italo Calvino's The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount. Contact: Tom Klein for more information (kleithom@isu.edu)

9:00am to 5:00 pm
Idaho State University Quad (near the Hypostyle)

Louis Warren, Buffalo Bill's America – April 11

Louis Warren is the prize-winning author of Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show (Knopf, 2005). Professor Warren is W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis. Sponsored by the Idaho State University Cultural Affairs Council.

8:00 pm
Goranson Hall - Idaho State University

Nalo Hopkinson – April 13

Public reading from her new novel, The New Moon's Arms (Warner Books, 2007), followed by a book signing. Nalo Hopkinson is a leading member of a new generation of writers who combine interest in speculative fiction with literary distinction and acute cultural awareness.

7pm, Salmon River Room, PSUB
Idaho State University