Ghosts & Projectors Summer Reading
Featuring Huma Aatifi, Hannah Rodabaugh, and Allison Campbell
FY 2017 Arts & History Grant Recipient
Ghosts & Projectors is throwing a summer reading on The Cabin's lawn, featuring Huma Aatifi, Hannah Rodabaugh, and Allison Campbell.
$2 donations and beer and wine $$ gratefully accepted & put back into bringing innovative writing to Boise.
About the poets:
Allison Campbell is a writer, teacher, and collaborator living in New Orleans. She earned her PhD in Literature, Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers where she served as associate editor of the Mississippi Review. Her poems have appeared in such places as The Cincinnati Review, Switchback, Witness, Rattle, Court Green, Harpur Palate, Armchair/Shotgun, VERSE online, The Pinch and big bell. She has guest blogged for The Best American Poetry website and served as a special portfolio guest editor for Story magazine. Her collaborations with illustrator Alf Dahlman have appeared in Tammy, Drunken Boat, Story, and Palooka.
Hannah Rodabaugh received an MA in literature from Miami University and an MFA in poetry from Naropa University. Her poetry has been published in magazines like Berkeley Poetry Review, ROAR Magazine, Horse Less Review, Written River, Rat's Ass Review, Nerve Lantern, and others. She has a chapbook of poems titled With Words: Verse in Concordance modeled after dictionary entries out from Dancing Girl Press. She also has poetry in Flim Forum Press’ anthology A Sing Economy and Nerve Lantern's Yoko Ono: A Tribute to Yoko Ono, a collection of writing in response to Yoko Ono's performance art. She recently received grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, and the Alexa Rose Foundation, and she is a 2017 Artist in Residence for Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve. She works as a teaching writer at The Cabin Idaho.
Huma Aatifi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. She came to the U.S in 2002 as a refugee. She is pursing a degree in Computer Science at Boise State University. She likes to write poetry and paint. Ballet Idaho’s commissioned her for their 2017 Winter Repertory in which five new oil paintings were displayed as the back drop. For smaller side projects, she likes to make music videos with a Pasonic 100A camera. She is working a collection of poetry titled “Untitled.” She lives with her younger brother and sister.