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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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Related Poems

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

William Stafford
1982
And to think I had just paid a cousin twenty dollars to shovel the walk.
He and two of his buddies, still smelling of an all-nighter,
arrived at 7 am to begin their work.
When I left them a while later I noticed their ungloved hands
and winter made me feel selfish and unsure.
This ground seems unsure of itself
		    for its own reasons.
Real spring is still distant
and no one is trying to make themselves believe
this might last, this last unreasonable half hour.
It is six-thirty in eastern Montana and the cold
	has finally given way.
The time is important not because this has been a lon
M. L. Smoker
2005

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