Montana Poetry Salon

Have a look at the multimedia profiles of this year's participants:
	Greg Pape		Corby Skinner
	Lowell Jaeger		Sheryl Noethe
	Tami Haaland		Roger Dunsmore
	Rick Newby		Sandra Alcosser
	Opening poem by Henry Real Bird, the newly appointed MT Poet Laureate
	Closing poem by Victor Charlo and April Charlo
	The Montana Poetry Salon is directed by Lisa Simon, and supported by Humanities Montana as part of the 10th Annual Montana Festival of the Book, in Missoula, Oct. 22-24.

POETRY SALON 2010

We're going to do it again! This year's salon focuses on advocacy. What should next year's be about? Cultivating readers? Supporting writers? Or perhaps a reading theme like, say, "Rivers"? Please share ideas in the comments section below.

With apologies to Magritte, this year's buffalo evokes the inaugural Montana Poetry Salon's central question: What exactly is this?

And then:

What is poetry's state of existence in Montana? In a place so geographically expansive, how do we form a poetry community? How do we stay in touch and in reach? How do we stay informed? How do we cultivate readers as well as writers?

Yes, dear reader, the buffalo evokes all that.

Join us for the salon as we celebrate poetry advocacy, slam next year's event, and, of course, enjoy some fine poetry

SITES OF INTEREST

Lit Mags

• Front Range Review
• hoboeye.com
• Stone's Throw Magazine
• CutBank Online
• Drumlummon Views
• Whitefish Review
• The Oval
• Camas
• The Rook
• Aerie International

Writing Programs & Retreats

• Montana Artists Refuge
• The 406 Writers' Workshop
• UM Creative Writing Program

Listen here to a performance by the Bent Grass Poetry Troupe recorded for Montana Public Radio:

(If you don't hear the audio immediately, be patient; it's buffering.)