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. […]
The Seed Underground: A reading by Janisse Ray
Award-winning author Janisse Ray will read from and discuss her latest book, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, at Elk River Books on Friday, May 9. Ray is a writer, naturalist and activist who has written five books of literary nonfiction. She describes The Seed Underground as “a voyage to the country […]
Event postponed: The poetry of William Pitt Root and Pamela Uschuk
This event has been postponed until October, due to a wildfire threatening Bill and Pam’s home near Durango. We’ll update this post as soon as we reschedule. Elk River Books will host a reading by internationally-acclaimed poets William Pitt Root and Pamela Uschuk at the bookstore, 115 E. Callender St. in Livingston, on Thursday, June […]
Book of the Month – Thin Kimono by Michael Earl Craig
This month’s feature is a limited, first edition hardcover of Thin Kimono by my favorite Livingston poet (with apologies to myself). He’s also my favorite farrier, though to be fair, I only know two and the other one is Earl’s apprentice. One doesn’t so much read a Craig poem as one ricochets through it, bouncing […]
