Holiday Stroll poetry signings with Dunsmore, Haaland & La Tray
Elk River Books will present a free book signing with poets Roger Dunsmore, Tami Haaland and Chris LaTray, during the downtown Livingston Holiday Stroll, on Friday, Dec. 7, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Roger Dunsmore is a professor emeritus at the University of Montana, having taught from 1963 to 2013. His latest book, On the […]
Lowell Jaeger and Isabel Sobral Campos
Montana Poet Laureate Lowell Jaeger and poet, professor and publisher Isabel Sobral Campos will read from their new works at Livingston’s Elk River Books on Tuesday, July 10, at 7 p.m. Jaeger is the founding editor of Many Voices Press, the author of eight collections of poems, the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment […]
Missoula poets Mark Gibbons and David E. Thomas
Two of Missoula’s best-known poets, Mark Gibbons and David E. Thomas, will read from new and collected works on Tuesday, June 19, at Livingston’s Elk River Books. Gibbons grew up in a small railroad town in western Montana where he listened to records, played sports, and married his high school sweetheart. He began reading Brautigan, […]
Greg Keeler’s The Bluebird Run Launch Party
Montana poet, songwriter and artist Greg Keeler will read from his latest book, The Bluebird Run, at Elk River Books’ seventh anniversary party on Thursday, May 24, at 7 p.m. The latest publication of Elk River Books, The Bluebird Run is a collection of 180 new sonnets that range from humorous flights to poignant meditations […]
The Bluebird Run by Greg Keeler
The Bluebird Run is a monumental collection of 180 new sonnets that range from humorous flights to poignant meditations on loss, love, aging and the fate of humanity in the face of looming environmental and social crises. Ricardo Sternberg, author of Some Dance, writes, “These wonderful sonnets are alive in their language and in the […]
Bill Hayward presents photographic memoir
Following performances and exhibitions in France, Germany and New York, Livingston native Bill Hayward returns home for a discussion and slide show from his new photographic memoir, Chasing Dragons, at Elk River Books on Tuesday, August 9, at 7 p.m. Hayward works in photography, film, painting, poetry, dance and other art forms to explore the […]
Invasion of the Billings Poets
Elk River Books will host a group reading featuring Billings-based poets Tami Haaland, Dave Caserio, Cara Chamberlain and Bernard Quechenbach, on Tuesday, July 12, at 7 p.m. The event will present the quartet of writers in round robin style. Haaland, the former poet laureate of Montana, is the author of When We Wake in the […]
