Saturday, May 17, 10am-2pm

Help us clean up River Arts and get it ready for the busy season ahead! We’ll do some landscaping, painting, cosmetic repairs, and otherwise tidy the cabin and its yard for a fun summer ahead.

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, May 31, 1pm

Join us for the spring meet up of our Reading Women book club. This month we’ll be discussing All Fours by Miranda July. Copies are available in the bookshop. Everyone welcome!

Saturday, June 7, 6pm

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.