Campfire Stories returns to the Modern for it’s 12th season! Join us under the ginkgos in the Modern courtyard every 2nd Sunday – May to October – to experience this intimate storytelling event. Reservations are available for seating 6:15 – 7pm. Visit themodernbar.com/reserve now to secure a table! Walk-ins welcome.
Campfire Stories is produced by Christian Winn, Rebecca Evans and Tomás Baiza. As usual, we are thrilled for the opportunity to work with this amazing team!
Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 10
Doors @ 6pm
Show 7 – 9
Host: Christian Winn
Artists: Diane Raptosh, Alan Minskoff, Alisa Bohling, Josephine Klaas
Theme: Generations
Diane Raptosh
Diane Raptosh’s collection American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press) was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award (poetry). She is the recipient of three literature fellowships (Idaho Arts Commission) as well as an Alexa Rose Foundation Grant. The winner of Idaho Governor’s Arts Award in Excellence (2018), she was Boise’s Poet Laureate (2013) and Idaho’s Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016). Her ninth collection, I Eric America, was published in 2024 (Etruscan). She teaches literature and creative writing as well as courses for the criminology program at the College of Idaho.
Alan Minskoff
Alan Minskoff teaches journalism at the College of Idaho, has been a magazine editor—Idaho Heritage, Boise Magazine, Boise Journal and Art Idaho—author of two chapbooks of poetry, Blue Ink Runs Out on a Partly Cloudy Day and Point Blank (Limberlost Press) and is the author of Idaho Wine Country with photography by Paul Hosefros and The Idaho Traveler (Caxton). He reviews audiobooks for Kirkus Magazine and is on the Behind the Mic podcast. He and wife Royanne have been married for More than four decades. He is the father of three and grandfather of five.
Alisa Bohling
Alisa Bohling is at work on a book about belonging and alienation. Her work appears on Lit Hub and the Los Angeles Review of Books and has been supported by the Idaho Commission on the Arts, the Alexa Rose Foundation, and Art Farm. Alisa is a former journalist whose reporting has been twice cited by Project Censored and was recognized for excellence by the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. She was born and raised in Oregon and has lived in Boise for almost ten years.
Josephine Klaas
My name is Josephine Klaas and I’m a senior at Bishop Kelly High School. I’ll be graduating in May and in the fall I will attend the University of Tulsa, where I will study English and Law. I love being involved in my community- I run track, play soccer, lead the Red Cross Club at my school, and volunteer with the Boise Rescue Mission. I love to write more than anything, and I am Idaho’s first Youth Poet Laureate!