By Julia Johnson
High Plains BookFest
lasted for four
days. It was so memorable
time! Doesn’t
matter what genre you
prefer. You
could find all kind of pan-
craft there.
Ghost-story, non-fictions,
scientific,
detectives, true story
about personal
woman’s suffer, kid’s
literature,
poetry. Unfortunately
some events
took place
simultaneously
and was impossible to
visit them all. So
arose the question of a
matter of life or
death: “What to
choose?! For
example reading and
discussion with
women writers or meeting with indigenous writes of the U.S. and
Canada?!”. Now
you for sure understand how difficult it was - to make right choice! How
ever fest was
organized on very high level, so we very thankful to organizers. Special
after they promised
to repeat event next year.
Last day of festival was held in a atmosphere of cosiness, friendliness and poetry. Poets,
whose poetry went
down in anthology “Poems across the Big Sky II” read their pieces in lobby of Dude Rancher Lodge.
“William Carlos Williams famously asserted, It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
These
Montana
poems
share
the
news
we
need
to
hear
at
this
moment
in
our
history,
our
shared
lives.
Reading
this
vivid,
engaging,
important
collection,
you
will
be
brought
into
contact
with
the
physical
world
time
and
again
in
often
surprising
ways.
The
wild
startles
and
frightens,
or
it
slows
us
down,
makes
us
take
notice,
demands
our
focus.
And
the
many
Native
American
voices
included
here
often
summon
a
deeper
spiritual
connection
to
place,
a
sense
of
deep
time,
o
f
relationship
that
goes
beyond
the
finite
self
o
r
the
pressing
contemporary
rush.
How
do
Montanans
endure,
even
flourish
in
this
outlandishly
wild
place?
Many
poems
show
the
work
of
living
here,
whether
at
a
fast-food
restaurant
or
a
ranch
or
the
writing
table
(the
root
of
poetry
is
making).
Work as survival, work as a practice that
reveals
unexpected
talents,
work
as
a
means
of
making
sense
of
our
brief
but
promising
lives.
And
love
and
humor
play
their
parts
too
in
dwelling
in
Montana,
at
least
on
the
evidence
of
these
poems.
Consider
the
beauty
of
aging
partners
sharing
their
fully
carnal
love,
or
a
young
couple
sharing
their
first
kiss
in
a
car,
or
the
silliness
and
power
of
Coyote.
These
poems
provide
the
news
we
need
to
thrive
in
Montana
they
are
necessary
as
water,
stunning
as
sky”
-
wrote
in
his
review
Ken Egan
, Executive
Director of Humanities Montana --Humanities Montana 2016
Who
missed
that
magic
occasion
and
now
very
sorry
about
it,
you
have
chance
meet
Lowell
Jaeger
,
one
of
the
editor
of
that
anthology
on
his
event
A
Poetry
Conversation
with
Lowell
Jaeger
October
26
at
Flathead
Valley
Community
College.
You
can
also
understand
better
the atmosphere of event by watching next video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yvM2bCUNsA&feature=youtu.be
BookFest
Romantic and poetic: poetry reading closed High Plains BookFest
By Julia Johnson
High Plains BookFest
lasted for four days. It
was so memorable time!
Doesn’t matter what
genre you prefer. You
could find all kind of
pan-craft there. Ghost-
story, non-fictions,
scientific, detectives, true
story about personal
woman’s suffer, kid’s
literature, poetry. Unfortunately some events took place simultaneously
and was impossible to visit them all. So arose the question of a matter of
life or death: “What to choose?! For example reading and discussion with
women writers or meeting with indigenous writes of the U.S. and
Canada?!”. Now you for sure understand how difficult it was - to make
right choice! How ever fest was organized on very high level, so we very
thankful to organizers. Special after they promised to repeat event next
year.
Last day of festival was held in a atmosphere of cosiness, friendliness
and poetry. Poets, whose poetry went down in anthology “Poems across
the Big Sky II” read their pieces in lobby of Dude Rancher Lodge.
“William Carlos Williams famously asserted, It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
These
Montana
poems
share
the
news
we
need
to
hear
at
this
moment
in
our
history,
our
shared
lives.
Reading
this
vivid,
engaging,
important
collection,
you
will
be
brought
into
contact
with
the
physical
world
time
and
again
in
often
surprising
ways.
The
wild
startles
and
frightens,
or
it
slows
us
down,
makes
us
take
notice,
demands
our
focus.
And
the
many
Native
American
voices
included
here
often
summon
a
deeper
spiritual
connection
to
place,
a
sense
of
deep
time,
of
relationship
that
goes
beyond
the
finite
self
or
the
pressing
contemporary
rush.
How
do
Montanans
endure,
even
flourish
in
this
outlandishly
wild
place?
Many
poems
show
the
work
of
living
here,
whether
at
a
fast-food
restaurant
or
a
ranch
or
the
writing
table
(the
root
of
poetry
is
making).
Work
as
survival, work as a practice that
reveals
unexpected
talents,
work
as
a
means
of
making
sense
of
our
brief
but
promising
lives.
And
love
and
humor
play
their
parts
too
in
dwelling
in
Montana,
at
least
on
the
evidence
of
these
poems.
Consider
the
beauty
of
aging
partners
sharing
their
fully
carnal
love,
or
a
young
couple
sharing
their
first
kiss
in
a
car,
or
the
silliness
and
power
of
Coyote.
These
poems
provide
the
news
we
need
to
thrive
in
Montana
they
are
necessary
as
water,
stunning
as
sky”
-
wrote
in
his
review
Ken
Egan
,
Executive
Director of Humanities Montana --Humanities Montana 2016
Who
missed
that
magic
occasion
and
now
very
sorry
about
it,
you
have
chance
meet
Lowell
Jaeger
,
one
of
the
editor
of
that
anthology
on
his
event
A
Poetry
Conversation
with
Lowell
Jaeger
October
26
at
Flathead
Valley
Community
College.
You
can
also
understand
better
the
atmosphere
of
event
by
watching
next
video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yvM2bCUNsA&feature=youtu.be
BookFest
Romantic and poetic: poetry
reading closed High Plains
BookFest
