For Immediate Release
Contact: Patricia Spencer, Public Information Officer
Pspencer@lclibrary.org or 406-459-0614
THE LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY HOSTS MONTANA CONVERSATION “LOCAL LITERARY CULTURE” WITH TAMI HAALAND
May 10, 2021 (Helena, MT)—The Lewis & Clark Library to host Montana Conversation “Local Literary Culture” with Tami Haaland virtually on May 18th at 6:30PM. The workshop is free and open to the public but registration is required. Funding for Montana Conversations is provided by Humanities Montana through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Montana’s Cultural Trust, and private donations.
As a poet raised on the Hi-Line and as a professor of creative writing, Haaland knows the benefit of bringing cultural activities to rural and urban environments. In this program, Haaland leads a writing workshop and discussion tailored to the needs of each community. From facilitating a discussion of short works by Montana authors to exploring multi-genre writing through prompts and activities, these presentations inspire people to new writing and reading frontiers. Included in these programs are practical conversations about the challenges of building and sustaining writing groups and literary programs, and innovative ways to succeed in cultivating local talent and creating a series of guest artists to nourish literary communities across the state.
Tami Haaland is the author of three poetry collections, What Does Not Return, When We Wake in the Night, and Breath in Every Room, winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award. Haaland’s poems have appeared in High Desert Journal, Consequence, Ascent, The Ecopoetry Anthology and many other periodicals and anthologies. Her work has also been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry. She has received an Artist Innovation Award from Montana Arts Council and a Governor’s Humanities Award through Humanities Montana. From 2013 to 2015 Haaland served as Montana's Poet Laureate, and she is a professor of English at Montana State University Billings.
To register for the workshop,: https://tinyurl.com/3k7yecvj.
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