Below is a list of upcoming literary events in the Missoula, Montana area.
September 25, 2008
Creative Writing Program Fall Reading Series: Robert Pack
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Description: Robert Pack is a professor in the Davidson Honors College and the English Department at the University of Montana, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Romantic Poetry, Modern Poetry, Creative Writing, and Ways of Knowing. His most recent publications are Still Here, Still Now, a collection of poems published by the University of Chicago (2008) and Willing to Choose: Volition & Storytelling in Shakespeare's Major Plays, published by Lost Horse Press (2007). He is the author of eighteen previous books of poetry, as well as collections of criticism, essays, and anthologies. Pack has taught at Barnard College, Middlebury College, Rocky Mountain College; has served as the Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference; and has been granted awards and fellowships by the Fulbright Program, National Council of the Arts, and the American Scholar Mary Elinor Smith Poetry Prize, among many others. He and his wife currently live in a mountain home in Condon, designed by his son.
September 26, 2008
Creative Writing Program Fall Reading Series: Beverly Lowry, William Kittredge Visiting Fiction Writer and Professor
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Description: Beverly Lowry's most recent book is Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life, published by Doubleday in 2007. Author of six novels and three books of nonfiction, Her Dream of Dreams, the Rise and Triumph of Madam C.J. Walker; Crossed Over, a Murder a Memoir; and The Track of Real Desires. She has also published works of feature journalism and book reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta and other publications. She teaches at George Mason University and lives in Austin, Texas.
October 23, 2008 - October 25, 2008
Montana Festival of the Book
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November 21, 2008
Creative Writing Program Fall Reading Series: Michael Martone
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Description: Michael Martone is the author of several book most recently Racing in Place, a book of essays, Double-wide his collected early fiction, and Michael Martone, a memoir done in contributor's notes. He also has edited a series of fiction and nonfiction anthologies. He currently teaches at the University of Alabama and has taught at Iowa State, Harvard, and Syracuse Universities.
December 5, 2008
Creative Writing Program Fall Reading Series: Sarah Gambito, Richard Hugo Visiting Poet and Professor
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Description: Sarah Gambito is the author of Matadora (Alice James Books) and Delivered (forthcoming from Persea Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. She holds degrees from The University of Virginia and The Creative Writing Program at Brown University. A recipient of grants and fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Urban Artists Initiative and The MacDowell Colony, she is co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization that promotes Asian American poetry.