Join the Lewis & Clark Library Foundation to celebrate the writing journey of writer, teacher, and Montana Poet Laureate Melissa Kwasny. She will share her journey through conversation with local author and educator, Virginia Reeves, with short readings interspersed throughout.

Melissa Kwasny is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today (University of Washington Press Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) and Pictograph (Milkweed Editions), as well as a collection of prose writings, Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision (Lynx House Press). She is the editor of Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800–1950 (Wesleyan University Press) and co-editor, with M.L. Smoker, of the anthology I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poets in Defense of Global Human Rights (Lost Horse Press).
Recently published by Trinity University Press, Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear is her first book of investigative nonfiction.


Book sales and signing will follow the presentation. The event is free and open to all.