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Saturday 04/12/2008
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Art :: Poetry
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Poetry Weekend Festival
12:00 PM  FVCC
Description:
Flathead Valley Community College will host its inaugural Poetry Festival Weekend April 10-12. Supported by Humanities Montana, the event will consist of workshops, panel discussions and readings featuring poets, faculty, authors and students from across the state of Montana including Montana’s Poet Laureate Greg Pape.
The event will open the evening of April 10 with a presentation by FVCC English Instructor Lowell Jaeger in conjunction with the 2008 Honors Symposium. Jaeger has published two collections of poems—“War on War” and “Hope Against Hope”—and numerous chapbooks and recently edited “Poems Across The Big Sky,” an anthology of Montana poets that sold more than a thousand copies within five weeks after publication. He currently serves as editor of Many Voices Press and is working on his latest project, “New Poets of the American West,” an anthology of poets from western states. Free and open to the public, Jaeger’s presentation titled, “Losing Your Mind: How to Read Poetry, How to Write It,” will take place at 7 p.m. in the Arts and Technology Building large community meeting room on the college’s Kalispell campus.
The event will continue April 11 with poetry workshops from 9-11 a.m. and from 1-3 p.m. Workshops presenters will include Roger Dunsmore, The University of Montana-Western instructor and author of “Tiger Hill,” a collection of poems along with many other poetry books and “Earth’s Mind,” a collection of essays; Melissa Kwasny, author of “The Archival Birds,” “Thistle,” and “Reading Novalis,” editor of “Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1850,” and poetry teacher in Montana and San Francisco for over 20 years; and M. L. “Mandy” Smoker, of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation and author of “Another Attempt at Rescue,” a collection of poems. The cost to enroll in the workshops is $50, and pre-registration is required.
The festival will conclude April 12 with another series of poetry workshops from 9-11 a.m. and from 1-3 p.m. Workshops presenters will include Dunsmore, Kwasny, Smoker and Pape. Appointed by Governor Schweitzer as Montana’s second Poet Laureate, an honorary position that was created by the state legislature in 2005, Pape is the author of the award-winning books “Sunflower Facing the Sun” and “American Flamingo,” as well as the books “Border Crossings,” “Black Branches,” and “Storm Pattern” and has taught creative writing and literature at eight universities across the country including The University of Montana where he has taught since 1987. The cost to enroll in the workshops is $100, and pre-registration is required.
In addition to the workshops, the festival will offer a number of activities that are free and open to the public and will take place in the Arts and Technology Building, room 139, on the FVCC campus. On April 11, a panel discussion, “Can Poetry Matter?” will take place from noon-1 p.m. Student readings will take place from 3:30-4:30 p.m., and faculty readings featuring Dunsmore, Smoker and Jaeger will take place from 7-9 p.m. On April 12, a panel discussion, “The Role of Poetry in a Free Society,” will take place from noon-1 p.m. Student readings will take place from 3:30-4:30 p.m., and faculty readings featuring Pape and Kwasny will take place from 7-9 p.m.
For more information, contact Jaeger at 756-3907. To register for the workshops, contact the FVCC Continuing Education Center at 406-756-3832.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: FVCC
Address: Kalispell
Phone: 756-3907
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