Join former Montana Poets Laureate
M.L. Smoker,
Melissa Kwasny, and
Tami Haaland for a reading and discussion exploring themes of time, landscapes, environmental change, and the important role of Indigenous people in our region’s future. With writing that acts as both rich tapestries of natural beauty and as documents for posterity’s sake, all three authors weave essential reflections on Montana and the wider northwestern region into their works.
M.L. Smoker’s poetry collection,
Another Attempt at Rescue, and her graphic novel
Thunderous engage questions of Native American identity, history, language, and culture.
Tami Haaland’s latest poetry collection,
If I Had Said Beauty, is dedicated to “known and unknown” ancestors, exploring all that lies behind one’s sense of self while being grounded in encounters with wild and domestic life and intimate moments of loss and connection.
Melissa Kwasny, a recent Artist in Residence at American Prairie reserve, is the author of
The Cloud Path, a poetry collection that reckons with personal and collective loss and grief, and turns to the natural world for guidance and solace.
This event is free and open to the public.
Purchase the authors' books via our official festival bookseller
Auntie's Bookstore!
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