Friday, January 31, 6-7pm

Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendent of the Pembina Band of the mighty Red River of the North and an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. His third book, Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home, was published by Milkweed Editions on August 20, 2024. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award. His book of haiku and haibun poetry, Descended from a Travel-worn Satchel, was published in 2021 by Foothills Publishing.

Chris writes the weekly newsletter "An Irritable Métis" and lives near Frenchtown, Montana. He is the Montana Poet Laureate for 2023–2025.

Saturday, March 8, 1pm

Join our Reading Women book club, a group that will meet to read and discuss female sexuality, identity, and place in our collective society. Everyone is welcome! This will be a fun, open, and safe space to explore topics that have historically not been given time or attention. At this meeting we will be discussing Want by Gillian Anderson.

Saturday, March 22, 6pm

The human history of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem goes back at least 10,000 years since glacial ice receded from the Rocky Mountains. Ever since then, Indigenous people have been inherently tied to this landscape and its resources, creating a rich prehistory and history documented in the archaeological record and their living culture. This lecture aims to provide an overview of some of the most important archaeological sites near Roscoe, Montana that have influenced our understanding of the past. However, this lecture also will discuss the complex history of colonialism, archaeological science, Indigenous relations, and heritage management as they relate to our every day lives and institutions. 

Friday, April 25, 6pm

Join us for a special evening reading with CMarie and her upcoming book, Salmon Weather.

CMarie Fuhrman is a poet, writer, and teacher. Her work has appeared in Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Northwest Review, Ploughshares, and many others. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam, and co-editor of Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations, and the award-winning anthology Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry (winner of the PNBA and several other awards). Her forthcoming book, Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, is due out in 2025. CMarie is an award winning columnist for the Inlander and the voice of the NPR podcast, Terra Firma.  Fuhrman directs the Elk River Writers Workshop and serves as the Associate Director for Western Colorado University's Graduate Program in Creative Writing where she teaches poetry and nature writing. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.

www.cmariefuhrman.com

Friday, May 30, 6pm

Join Corrie to hear poems and recollections from her newest book, Your Mother's Bear Gun, which stem from wild places, including her time as the fellow at the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, during 8 months of off-grid solitude in Oregon's Wild Rogue Country, as well as while living in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. These poems travel across ecotones and liminal spaces between wilderness and the mind, between human and animal, safety and danger.   

Corrie Williamson is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Your Mother's Bear Gun, as well as The River Where You Forgot My Name, a 2019 Montana Book Award finalist, and Sweet Husk, winner of the 2014 Perugia Press Prize. She is also the co-editor of the in-production anthology A Literary Field Guide to the Rocky Mountains. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and she has taught writing at the University of Arkansas, Helena College, and Carroll College, and been a guide and instructor in Yellowstone National Park. She lives in Lewistown, Montana. Learn more about her at https://www.corriewilliamson.com/. 

Saturday, June 7

More details coming soon.

Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the 2000 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers award, and the novels, The Fruit of Stone, An Unfinished Life, and, Bone Fire.  All four were top-ten Book Sense selections and An Unfinished Life was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004.  Spragg’s work has been translated into fifteen languages.  He lives in Wyoming with his wife, Virginia, with whom he wrote the screenplay for the film version of his novel, An Unfinished Life, starring Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, and Jennifer Lopez. 

Saturday, June 21

More details coming soon.