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She also wrote the novels Trees Call for
What They Need (1993) and Modern Daughters
of the Outlaw West (1990).
Kwasny was the editor of Toward the
Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950
and co-editor with ML Smoker of I Go to the
Ruined Place: Contemporary Poets in Defense of
Global Human Rights.
She was the recipient of the Poetry
Society of America’s Cecil Hemley and
Alice Fay di Castognola Awards and was
named an Academy of American Poets
Laureate in 2021.
Previous Montana Poet Laureates
included Lowell Jaeger (2017-2019), Michael
Earl Craig (2015-2017), Tami Haaland
(2013-2015), Sheryl Noethe (2011-2013),
Henry Real Bird (2009-2011), Greg Pape
(2007-2009), and the first laureate Sandra
Alcosser (2005-2007). MSN

Montana’s Poet Laureate is responsible for advancing and supporting the poetic arts in the state.
“Poetry is living, it’s ongoing, and ... it brings us together,” says 2021-2022 Poet Laurete Mark Gibbons of
Missoula. “That’s something we always need as a culture and society, and maybe now more than ever.”
Photo by Nann Parrett.

her work as a writer and consultant on the University’s Integrated Teaching through
PBS Television documentary Indian Relay. the Arts MEd Program.
In 2021, she was named an Academy of Kwasny wrote a collection of essays
American Poets Laureate Fellow. entitled Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and WALKING THE LINE
Melissa Kwasny shared the position of Vision and is the author of several collections Submitted by Julie Fink/Brantley
Montana Poet Laureate with M.L. Smoker. of poetry, including Where Outside the Body I went line dancing last night. Well,
Kwasny earned an MFA in Poetry and an Is the Soul Today, Pictograph, The Nine Senses, it was a roadside sobriety test...same
MA in Literature from the University of Reading Novalis in Montana, Thistle, and The thing.
Montana, Missoula. She teaches in Lesley Archival Birds.

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