Greg Pape's Page

I've written nine books of poetry, including American Flamingo, winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition Award, Sunflower Facing the Sun, winner of the Edwin Ford Piper Prize, Storm Pattern, Black Branches, and Border Crossings. I'm honored to have received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, the Richard Hugo memorial award for poetry, the Vachel Lindsey poetry award, and others. My poems have appeared widely in magazines, anthologies, and text books, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Viking Western Reader, and Writing Poems. I've also had several poems read on public radio's The Writers Almanac with Garrison Keillor. As a teacher, I've led poetry writing workshops at colleges and universities around the country, and since 1987 I've been a member of the Creative Writing faculty at the University of Montana.

Poet Laureate

I was selected by Gov. Brian Schweitzer to be Montana's second Poet Laureate in the summer of 2007 (following Sandra Alcosser). A new poet will be named to the position this summer. As Poet Laureate, I traveled the state (often to Montana's most rural areas), reading poetry and talking to various organizations about the virtues of literary life.

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In September 2009 I appeared on MTPR's The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the western United States. Listen here: