Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Tom Montag's Readings, Presentations, Classes, and Other Events for the year
Updated as needed
2006
Monday, March 20, 2006 - 2:00 p.m.
"The Idea of the Local"
Ripon Public Library
120 Jefferson Street, Ripon WI 53931
Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 1:00 p.m.
Poetry reading
Beloit Public Library
409 Pleasant Street, Beloit WI 53511
Thursday, April 27, 2006 - 4:45 p.m.
Reading
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Menomonie, Wisconsin
Friday & Saturday
June 9 & 10, 2006
Reading from my farm-related poetry and prose
and
Presentation: "Lorine's Toolbox: A Working Poet
Explores Niedecker's Poetics"
Wisconsin Writers' Conference
UW-Baraboo/Sauk County
Baraboo, Wisconsin
Saturday, September 23, 2006 - 10:45 a.m.
Presentation: "Writing Poetry Successfully - 99 Propositions"
Wisconsin Regional Writers Association Convention
Janesville, Wisconsin
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Fox Cities Marathon - Neenah-Menasha, Wisconsin
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Class and public reading
Briar Cliff University
Sioux City, Iowa
Friday, November 10, 2006 - 7:30 p.m.
"Second Friday Poetry"
Featured reader with Kimberly Blanchette
The Village Booksmith & Coffeehouse
526 Oak Street
Baraboo, Wisconsin
Monday, November 13, 2006
Classes - Curlew: Home; and "99 Propositions"
Maria Stein High School
Maria Stein, Ohio
Monday, November 27, 2006 - 7:00 p.m.
Discuss Curlew: Home
Ripon Book Discussion Group
Ripon Public Library - Nash Room
2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 7:00 p.m.
Reading
Pumphouse Regional Arts Center
119 King Street
La Crosse, Wisconsin
May 5-6, 2007
Fort Collins Marathon
Fort Collins, Colorado
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2005
Reading & Talks
The Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series
Minnesota State University
Moorhead, Minnesota
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
A Vagabond Presentation
Benton County Historical Society
Fowler, Indiana
April 14-April 28, 2005
Tom & Mary
spend two glorious weeks
in Iceland
April 30, 2005, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Featured Poet
"Higher Ground" with Jonathan Overby
Wisconsin Public Radio
Saturday, June 4, 2005, 1:00 p.m.
A Vagabond Presentation:
"What You Hear In Small Town Cafes Across the Middlewest"
Fairwater Historical Society - Fairwater Museum
Fairwater, Wisconsin
Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 7:00 p.m.
Reading Poetry & Prose
Conkey's Bookstore, Appleton, Wisconsin
[opening mike follows, so bring a poem to share.]
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Marshall Festival 2005:
A Celebration of Rural Writers and Writing and More
Minnesota State University
Marshall, Minnesota
3:00 p.m.
"Vagabond in the Middle:
Tom Montag Reading & Talk
About His Middlewestern Project"
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INDEX OF SATURDAY'S POEMS
o Dave Bonta, "The Morning Porch" - March 13, 2004
o Harriet Brown, "Speaking Midwestern" and "Where We Went" - July 10, 2004
o Robin Chapman, "By the Wisconsin River" - June 12, 2004
o David Clewell, "Depot: Beaver Dam, Wisconsin" - February 21, 2004
o Susan Firer, "The Butterfly Graveyard" - May 22, 2004
o Susan Firer, "The Bright Waterfall of Angels" - August 14, 2004
o Fred First, "In Living Memory" - April 3, 2004
o R. Chris Halla, "My Prairie Wedding" - June 5, 2004
o Phil Hey, "Spare Tire" - March 6, 2004
o Karla Huston, "Night Swim" and "Summer Storm" - July 31, 2004
o Loren Kleinman, "Formaggio" and "Jetsam" - July 24, 2004
o Tom Montag, "February 1, 2001" - February 14, 2004
o Mike O'Connell, "Flatlanders" and "A Farm and a Rainbow" - March 27, 2004
o Colleen Redman, "Tincture Making" - May 15, 2004
o John Rezmerksi, "What I Am Trying to Tell You: Prairie in My Mouth" and "Some Good Things Left After the War With the Sioux" - August 21, 2004
o Jim Reese, "Ritual" and "Willing and Ready" - May 29, 2004
o Robert Schuler, "Thaw, 2003, Stanton Township" and "The American Millenium" - June 26, 2004
o Judith Strasser, "Apostle Islands History" and "County Road" - July 17, 2004
o Marilyn Taylor, "Surveying the Damage" - June 20, 2004
o Mark Vinz, "The Old Hometown" and "Midcontinent" - April 17, 2004
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