Restoring Voices & Balance: Writing As Restorative Vehicle

THREE TUESDAY EVENINGS IN OCTOBER

Professor, Author and Writer-In-Residence (Idaho, 2013-2016) Diane Raptosh helped implement a Prison-Based Writing program two decades ago. Since then, it has grown to reach many incarcerated persons and victims/receivers of harm. Her work alongside Prison Administrators and her take on writing as a potent vehicle of personal and community restoration will be just part of the thorough ground we cover during this 3- part October Series Starting OCTOBER 13th 5pm Pacific US/CAN

Diane Raptosh’s fourth book of poetry, American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press), was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award and was a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she served as the Boise Poet Laureate (2013) as well as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016). In 2018 she won the Idaho Governor’s Arts Award in Excellence. A highly active ambassador for poetry, she has given poetry workshops everywhere from riverbanks to maximum security prisons.

She teaches literature and creative writing and co-directs the program in Criminal Justice/Prison Studies at the College of Idaho. Her sixth book of poems, Dear Z: The Zygote Epistles, was recently released by Etruscan Press (July 2020)