Join The Cabin for a special evening with Arthur Sze, the 25th United States poet laureate. A partnership between the Library of Congress, The Cabin, and the Idaho Center for the Book, this is one of only four stops on Sze's national tour and presented free of charge to attendees. 

Arthur Sze is a poet, a translator, and an editor. He is the author of 12 books of poetry, including Into the Hush (2025), the winner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement; The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (2021); Sight Lines (2019), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; and Compass Rose (2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Sze is a recipient of the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. 

He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

In 2025, Sze was named 25th U.S. Poet Laureate and the first Asian American to hold the position.