
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 […]

Paul Zarzyski opens spring lecture series
Cowboy poet, recording artist and former bareback rider Paul Zarzyski will bring his wild words to Livingston for a free reading on Thursday, March 17, at 7 p.m., as the kick-off of Elk River Arts & Lectures’ spring 2016 lecture series. The 2005 recipient of the Montana Governor’s Arts Award for Literature, Zarzyski has performed […]

Elk River Arts & Lectures presents Iraqi poet Saif Alsaegh
Elk River Arts & Lectures opens its fall series with a presentation by Iraqi poet, playwright and filmmaker Saif Alsaegh on Thursday, September 17, 2015. Originally from Iraq, Alsaegh has been studying and living in Montana, and recently released his first book of poetry, Iraqi Headaches, with Great Falls mico-publisher Noveau Nostalgia. After a youth […]

Vagabond Song by Marc Beaudin
Elk River Books enters the world of publishing with the release of Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals by Marc Beaudin. The publication will be celebrated with a free reading and reception on Thursday, September 3, 2015, at Elk River Books, 120 N. Main St. in downtown Livingston. The event begins at 7 p.m. […]

Poetry reading with M.L. Smoker
Elk River Arts & Lectures will host Native American poet M.L. Smoker for a visit with local high school students and public reading from her book, Another Attempt at Rescue, on Thursday, February 12. Smoker is a member of the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes, and grew up on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana. […]