The Literary Arts Committee of the Mountain Home Arts Council in partnership with the Mountain Home Public Library will host the Spring Coffee House featuring Idaho Writer in Residence Kerri Webster at 7 pm on Friday, April 26, in the commons of the library. The program will include a reading by Webster followed by a Q&A and book signing. Light refreshments will be served.

Kerri Webster is the author of four books of poetry: Lapis (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), The Trailhead (Wesleyan, 2018), Grand & Arsenal (University of Iowa, 2012), and We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone (University of Georgia, 2005). She has taught at Washington University in St. Louis and Boise State, and as a Writer in the Schools for The Cabin. The recipient of honors including a Whiting Award, the Iowa Prize, the Lucille Medwick Award and a Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America, the Lynda Hull Memorial Prize, an Alexa Rose Foundation Grant, and three Literature Fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Webster’s poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, the Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Guernica, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Poetry Northwest.

Idaho’s Writer in Residence is the highest literary recognition accorded an Idaho writer and those selected embody preeminent quality in the literary field. In assuming the title of Writer in Residence Webster joins literary luminaries such as Anthony Doerr, Kim Barnes, and Diane Raptosh.