Beginning this summer, the Modern Hotel and RadioBoise will host Modern Campfire Stories, produced by Christian Winn. On Monday nights throughout the summer and fall, hear the best writers Idaho has to offer.

August 11, 2014 features Laura Roghaar and John Rember

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Laura Mei Roghaar is a poet. She teaches at Boise State and at The Cabin. Her first chapbook, SISTERHOUSE, is out from dancing girl press.

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John Rember was born in Sun Valley, Idaho, quite some time ago. He graduated from Wood River High School in Hailey, received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.F.A. from the University of Montana. His is the author of the short story collections Coyote in the Mountains, Cheerleaders from Gomorrah, and Sudden Death, Over Time, the memoir Traplines, and the why-to-write book MFA in a Box. He is a columnist for Boise Weekly and has—just in time— finished a new book, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World.

His contribution to Modern Campfire Stories is “Poetry Can Wait,” a dramatic monologue from Sudden Death, Over Time that examines the many things that can go awry when a small college attempting to hire a poet and composition teacher puts the wrong faculty member on the selection committee.

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