Montana

State Poet Laureate

In 2005, Montana established a state poet laureate position, which is currently held by Allen Morris Jones through 2027. Since 2005, Montana has had twelve poets laureate.

Type	Title	State
Reading Series	University of Montana Reading Series	Montana
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore	Books & Books	Montana
Literary Organization	Indian Reading Series	Montana
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore	Chapter One Book Store	Montana
Literary Organization	Montana Arts	Montana
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore	Fact & Fiction Books	Montana
Literary Organization	Montana Arts Council	Montana
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore	Montana Book & Toy Company	Montana
Literary Organization	Humanities Montana	Montana
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore	Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers	Montana

The dirt road is frozen.

Melissa Kwasny

2009

When I received the call I was in a store in Missoula, Montana. A store stocked with sparkling ephemera: glass fauna, tiny, belfry bulbs, winter white birch and stump lamps brandishing light cones, little shelves and branches hung drops of ice and round silver baubles. I loved the store: it was cavernous, dark with wood and burlap. A ruddy brick loft with lithographs and monographs on birds or bracelets. The storeowner, Fran, was away that day otherwise I would have stayed in there a little longer. She was a comforting friend— she had impeccable taste, which manifested -->

Prageeta Sharma

2010

We were alone one night on a long
road in Montana. This was in winter, a big
night, far to the stars. We had hitched,
my wife and I, and left our ride at
a crossing to go on. Tired and cold—but
brave—we trudged along. This, we said,
was our life, watched over, allowed to go
where we wanted. We said we’d come back some time
when we got rich. We’d leave the others and find
a night like this, whatever we had to give,
and no matter how far, to be so happy again.

William Stafford

1982

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Melissa Kwasny

Richard Hugo

Sandra Alcosser

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