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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.

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Type Title State
Literary Organization Writers Voice of the Billings YMCA Montana
Landmark The Dixon Bar Montana
Literary Organization Missoula Writing Collaborative Montana
Literary Magazine CutBank Montana
Small Press Drumlummon Institute Montana
Literary Magazine Whitefish Review Montana
Literary Magazine The Oval Montana
Literary Magazine Camas Montana
Small Press Riverbend Publishing Montana
Writing Program The 406 Writers' Workshop Montana

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Related Poems

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

William Stafford
1982
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

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