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Author Jonathan Johnson visiting NIC

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The North Idaho College Writing Center’s visiting writer series will host poet and fiction writer Jonathan Johnson, author of the 2025 titles “Pine” and “The Little Lights of Town.”

The reading and book signing begins at noon Wednesday, Feb. 4, at the Writing Center in the Lee Hall Annex on NIC’s Coeur d’Alene campus.

The event is free and open to the public.

Johnson is a professor at Eastern Washington University. His poems have been published in magazines and anthologies, have appeared in “Best American Poetry,” and on NPR.

His previous works include three books of poetry, “Mastodon, 80% Complete,” “In the Land We Imagined Ourselves,” and “May Is an Island,” as well as two memoirs and a play.

For more information, contact NIC Associate Professor of English Jonathan Frey at (208) 769-3337 or jonathan.frey@nic.edu.