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Montana Poets Laureate find healing through poetry in these pandemic times

It started out as such a good year for Montana Poets Laureate Melissa Kwasny and M.L. Smoker. Quote “Mandy and I believe poetry is a necessary — a crucial — medicine for these times, because it is the language of the heart, of feeling, of connection between one’s life and another’s.” — Melissa Kwasny Named Poets Laureate by Gov. Steve Bullock July 31, 2019, their inaugural event was the Billings Big Read in November 2019, where they gave a poetry reading and joined national poet laureate Joy Harjo, who was the focus of the Big Read. It was such an exciting and auspicious launch which included Harjo playing her saxophone during her reading and later there was a salsa dance party, recalled Kwasny, who is based in Boulder. 

The Snow Geese Path By Melissa Kwasny

Putting on the Dog: Animal Origins of What We Wear. Melissa Kwasny Her writings are also widely published in journals, including Willow Springs, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review,Orion, Bellingham Review, Kenyon Review, and Boston Review. Kwasny s poems and essays are also included in the anthologies The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, Poems Across the Big Sky, and New Poets of the American West, as well as West of 98: Living and Writing the American West. Kwasny is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America Cecil Hemley Award and Alice Fay di Castagnola Award for a work in progress, and the Montana Art Council s Artist s Innovation Award. She lives in Basin, Montana.

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