Google Docs – An updated re-run of last month’s very popular Google Docs class! We will be discovering the versatility of the Google platform and perhaps even making Office a thing of the past! Everything about this class is useful, versatile and possibly game changing. Come see the web based way of the future!
Main Library
Tech Office Hours with Paul
Join our tech expert, Paul Zimmerman, for one-on-one technology tutorials in the Reference Room.
Tech Office Hours with Paul
Join our tech expert, Paul Zimmerman, for one-on-one technology tutorials in the Reference Room.
Diane Raptosh Reading
Diane Raptosh grew up in Nampa, Idaho, and earned her BA from the College of Idaho and her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her collections of poetry include Just West of Now (1992), Labor Songs (1999), Parents from a Different Alphabet (2008), and American Amnesiac (2013), which was long-listed for a National Book Award.
In 2013, Raptosh was named poet laureate of Boise, Idaho. In an interview with the Idaho Statesman, she noted Idaho’s influence on her work: “I like the leveling influence of living here. If you try to show people your importance, they don’t buy it. That democratizing effect does influence my poetry. I find it affords me an expansiveness in terms of voice that might not be there if I were in a different landscape.”
Raptosh’s honors and awards include fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts; she serves as Idaho Writer in Residence (2013-2016) and was named Boise’s first ever Poet Laureate in 2013. She teaches at the College of Idaho.
Authors Marisa Matarazzo & Matt Sumell Discuss Their Work
Marisa Matarazzo is an author from Los Angeles, California. Her debut collection of interconnected short stories, Drenched, was published by Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint. She is the daughter of abstract artist Francine Matarazzo and John H. Schumann, a researcher and professor of Applied Linguistics. She earned her BA from Yale, where she received the Wallace Prize for fiction writing, and the Arthur Willis Colton Scholarship. She was a two-time recipient of the Elmore A. Willets Prize for fiction. Earning her MFA from UC Irvine, she was the recipient of the Dorothy and Donald Strauss Endowed Thesis Fellowship.
Matt Sumell is a graduate of UC Irvine’s MFA Program in Writing, and his short fiction has since appeared in the Paris Review, Esquire, Electric Literature, Noon, McSweeney’s, One Story and elsewhere. He is the author of MAKING NICE (2015).
Matt and Marisa will read from their work, discuss writing as a craft and field questions from the audiences. Drinks will be served.
America’s Music: An Exploration of the Early Days of Jazz and Blues
Grammy Museum Executive Director Robert Santelli has written more than a dozen books on American Music and has taught courses on the history of jazz and blues at Rutgers University, the University of Washington, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. In his talk, Santelli will explore the origins of jazz and blues and describe how in the 1920s both music forms came to define American music. It promises to be a great prelude to the Symphony’s “Made in America” In-Focus series, lending more context to those performances.
The lecture that complements the July 29 “In Focus” program of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony.
