Lost Horse Press announces March poetry workshop

Lost Horse Press will host a poetry workshop in mid March featuring Idaho poet, Diane Raptosh.

he workshop will be held at Lost Horse Press’ Studio beginning on Friday afternoon, March 10, continuing through Sunday, March 12.

This workshop is an opportunity for finding the poems in the news and vice versa, a space to entertain William Carlos Williams’s notion that “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men (sic) die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” Williams’s remark is often conflated with, or accompanied by, Ezra Pound’s proclamation in ABC of Reading, “Literature is news that stays news.” They are both wrong, or at least both guilty of going for the sound bite. In any event, it is difficult to get poems from the news, but people do it — and with great skill, grace, and music. And the dynamic exchange that happens where poetry meets breaking news, where verse forms of all sorts meet the break and flow of ever-changing perspectives and information, is a vital locus of thought indeed. To this end, we will be composing poems as news that stays new.

Diane Raptosh served as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016) and the Boise Poet Laureate (2013). Her most recent book of poems, American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press), was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award.

For additional information, or to register for the Diane Raptosh Workshop, please contact Lost Horse Press at 208-255-4410 or email losthorsepress@mindspring.com.