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“The Space of the Thinkable: Which Direction Does the Human Go?” by Diane Raptosh

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Diane Raptosh reads from her new book of poems, Human Directional. 

A graduate of the University of Michigan MFA Program, Diane Raptosh served as the Idaho Writer-in- Residence (2013-2016) and the Boise Poet Laureate (2013). Her book of poems, American Amnesiac  (Etruscan Press), was Longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she holds the Eyck-Berringer Endowed Chair in English at The College of Idaho, where she teaches literature and creative writing as well as directs the program in criminal justice/prison studies.

“The Flows: A Journey in Poetry and Photographs Through the Craters of the Moon” by Dr. Roger Boe

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Dr. Roger Boe is a superannuated semi-retired pediatrician from Pocatello. After 35 years he retired from practice to become the medical coordinator/consultant for an international mission organization. He is currently the medical director of a residential facility for adults with severe disabilities, and Clinical Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics through the University of Washington WWAMI Program. Forty years ago he took up photography as a hobby, and it has since become a consuming passion. Thirty years ago, Will Peterson, a friend, a poet and bookstore owner, introduced him to the wonders of Craters of the Moon, and since then he has been out in the lavas whenever he gets the chance. He and Will, with the help of Tom Blanchard , hope to soon put together a book of their shared experiences on the Flows.

Climate Change & the Wood River Valley

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In partnership with the Sawtooth Botanical Garden. 

Instructor: Alex deSmet is a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He is a native of Southeast Michigan and studied meteorology at Central Michigan University. A lifelong passion for meteorology led him to the National Weather Service regional office in Pocatello, where he serves as a forecaster, with emphasis on climate analysis and cooperative observer program management.

“Crocodiles and Ice: A Journey into Deep Wild” by Jon Turk

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Crocodiles and Ice is a scientist/adventurer’s polar expedition circumnavigating Ellesmere Island.

Jon Turk received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971 and wrote the first environmental science textbook in North America. He has since engaged in extreme outdoor expeditions. Jon chronicles his physical and spiritual adventures in four books: Cold Oceans, In the Wake of the Jomon, The Raven’s Gift, and Crocodiles and Ice.

A Conversation with Imbolo Mbue

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Imbolo Mbue is a native of the seaside city of Limbe, Cameroon. She holds a BA from Rutgers University and an MA from Columbia University. A resident of the United States for more than a decade, she lives in New York City.

Behold the Dreamers, her critically acclaimed debut novel, won the 2017 Pen/Faulkner Award and was named by The New York Times and The Washington Post as one of their Notable Books of 2016. It was also named as a Best Book of 2016 by NPR, Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian and the St. Louis Dispatch. The novel also won the 2017 Blue Metropolis Words to Change Award.

Ms. Mbue will be in conversation with Jenny Emery Davidson, the library’s executive director. 

“Landscape Into Architecture: Living with Frank Lloyd Wright in Idaho” By Henry Whiting

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In partnership with the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.

Henry Whiting describes himself as having lived with Frank Lloyd Wright his entire life. He was born in a hospital and raised in a house designed by a charter member of Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship, Alden B. Dow. Dow also happened to be Whiting’s great uncle and mentor. As a young man, Whiting moved to Idaho to help with the design and drawings for his parent’s new house in Sun Valley, built by architect Neil Morrison Wright. (An iconic house in the valley—built with poured cement and perched on the hill across from Dollar Mtn.) After further immersing himself in the Frank Lloyd’s Wright’s aesthetic and philosophy, Whiting commissioned a contemporary protégé of Wright’s, architect Bart Prince, to design a house at the mouth of Greenhorn Gulch. Today Whiting lives in Frank Lloyd Wright’s only Idaho building, the Archie Teater studio in Bliss which he has comprehensively restored over the last 35 years. An expert in Wright’s vision of the harmonious relation of architecture to landscape, Whiting’s lecture will focus on his history with these three buildings.

Henry Whiting has a degree in landscape architecture from University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of two books on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Teater’s Knoll.

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