Readings and Events

With Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray at the Missoula Public Library, November 2023

The Reading Series at Rocky Mountain College, with Danell Jones: Billings, MT: February 21st, 7pm in the Great Room of Prescott Hall

November 10th, 2023: POEMS, STORIES, AND SPIRITED CONVERSATION: AN EVENING IN CELEBRATION OF THE MONTANA POET LAUREATE CHRIS LA TRAY, 7pm Missoula Public Library, Missoula MT

Montana Book Festival, Missoula, MT September 2023: Cascadia Field Guide Contributors Reading, Sept 8th, 2:30, Missoula Public Library

July 11th, 2023: Environmental Poetry and Prose with Joe Wilkins and Justin Gardiner: Rose City Book Pub, Portland OR, 5:30 - 6:30pm

July 10th, 2023: “From Off-Grid to Renewed Connections: Poetry/Prose Reading and Roundtable.” Panel at ASLE+AESS 2023 Conference with Joe Wilkins and Justin Gardiner. Portland Convention Center, 8:30am

February 11th, 2023: Saturday Storytelling at Traveler’s Rest State Park, Lolo, MT, 11am

Past Events

August 11th, 2022: A Flight of Writers, with Chris La Tray and Austin Segrest: Montana Book Company, Helena, MT, 7pm

High Desert Journal, Issue 32 Live Facebook Reading, June 2021

Montana Book Festival, September 2020: A Reading with the 2019 Montana Book Award Winner and Finalists (on Youtube)

AWP SAN ANTONiO, 2020

March 6th: The Swamp with Driftwood Press Offsite Reading, 5:30pm, Charrity Bar

March 7th: Perugia Press Offsite at Candlelight, 7-9pm, Candlelight Coffee House with Megan Peak and Abby Murray

March 7th: Author Signing at Perugia Press Table 1941 at the Bookfair, 11:00 - 12:30

IMG_4699 (1).JPG

December 8th: Open Mouth Reading Series, Fayetteville, AR

November 9th: Reading at This House of Books, 3:30pm, Billings, Montana

November 6th: Carroll College Literary Festival, Keynote Speaker/Reader with John Hennessy, 7pm, Carroll College Trinity Lounge, Helena, Montana

October 24th: Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

  • 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
    Panel with Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Bill Sullivan, Leslie Williams, and Emily Jungmin Yoon

    John C. Guyon Auditorium (1st Floor Morris Library)

  • 2:00 – 3:15 p.m.

    Crab Orchard Open Competition winners Poetry Readings with Leslie Williams
    John C. Guyon Auditorium (1st Floor Morris Library)

October 15h: Reading with Henrietta Goodman: 7pm, Shakespeare & Co., Missoula, Montana

October 12th: Book Launch with special guests Keetje Kuipers and Sean Hill: 2pm, Holter Musuem, Helena, Montana

April 5th, 7-9pm: Reading with Roger Dunsmore, Cassiopeia Books, Great Falls, Montana

AWP Portland, 2019:

  • Panel Presenter: “So You Think you Need a Website: A Tech-Wonk(ish) Lesson for DIYers.” E146, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1, 1:30pm - 2:45pm, Thursday, March 28

  • Off-site reading with the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency Alums: Cassidy's, 7:30pm Thursday, March 28

  • Book signing, Bookfair, Perugia Press Table: Friday, March 29, 10:30 - 12:00

  • Off-site reading with Perugia Press: The Waypost, 5:30 - 7:30, Friday, March 29

Poets' Roundtable: Montana Book Festival - September 28, 12:30, The Public House

Bright Bones: Contemporary Montana Writing Release Party! - June 23rd, 2018: Imagine Butte Resource Center, Butte, Montana, 5pm

Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence - April 20th, 2018: Shakespeare & Co Bookstore, Missoula Montana, 7pm 

Queen City Writers Resist - January 15, 2017: Red Atlas Helena Montana, 6pm

Poetry in the World (Not by the Line): An Afternoon of Workshops and Conversations - "The Poet in the Machine" - November 12, 2016: at 2:30, Smith College

Poetry Center at Smith College Celebrates Perugia Press - November 15, 2016: Northhampton MA: Q & A at 4pm; Reading with Gail Martin and Lisa Allen Ortiz, 7:30pm

Montana Book Festival - September 22nd - 23rd, 2016: "Building a Literary Organization without all the Bullshit;" "Poets of Place, Class, and Legacy;" "Helena Authors Showcase."