Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Tom Montag's Readings, Presentations, Classes, and Other Events for the year
Updated as needed: 3-10-8
2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008 - 7:00 p.m.
Reading
The Coffee Cabin
Wautoma, Wisconsin
Saturday, March 16, 2008 - 1:00 p.m.
Presentation and reading
with Peter Pizzino
Peter's Story
Books & Company
1039 Summit Avenue
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 6:30 p.m.
Presentation: Writing About Place
Elderhostel
ABA
Green Lake, Wisconsin
Friday, June 13, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
Reading, with Kim Blanchette
Village Booksmith
On the Square
Baraboo, Wisconsin
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2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 7:00 p.m.
Reading
Pum
phouse Regional Arts Center
119 King Street
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Saturday, January 27, 2007, 4-5 p.m.
Poetry Marathon
Woodland Pattern
720 East Locust
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 10:30 a.m.
Board Meeting
Wisconsin Center for the Book
Madison, Wisconsin
Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Reading Poetry and Prose
Foot of the Lake Reading Series
Windhover Center for the Arts
51 Sheboygan Street
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
March 18-31, 2007
Visits to:
Gering, Nebraska
Fort Collins, Colorado
Smith Center, Kansas
Junction City, Kansas
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 6-8 p.m.
Poetry Cafe
Parkview Middle School
955 Willard
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Monday, April 16, 2007, noon
Presentation of my writing projects
Ripon Rotary Club
Royal Ridges
Ripon, Wisconsin
Saturday, April 21, 2007, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wisconsin Literary Bash
Staff assistant for the event, plus
A reading from my poetry and prose at 1:00 p.m.
Prairie Chicken Festival
Mead Wildlife Area
Milladore, Wisconsin
April 22-27, 2007
Elderhostel Writing Class
with Ellen Kort, Alice D'Allessio, & Richard Roe
Green Lake Conference Center
Green Lake, Wisconsin
April 29, 2007, 1:00 p.m.
Reading
Fort Atkinson Public Library
Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
May 5-6, 2007
Fort Collins Half-Marathon
Fort Collins, Colorado
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Board Meeting
Wisconsin Center for the Book
Madison, Wisconsin
May 24-27, 2007
Vagabond Visit
West Point, Nebraska
June 8-10, 2007
Trinity Prep Reunion
Class of '65
Sioux City, Iowa
Thursday-Monday, August 16-20, 2007
Recording session with Trinity
for our "fairy tales & nonsense" album
Milford, Kansas
Tuesday, August 21, 2007, 10:30 a.m.
Board Meeting
Wisconsin Center for the Book
Madison, Wisconsin
Wednesday nights, fall semester
August 29 through December 5
6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Creative Nonfiction WRT 340
Lakeland College
Friday, August 31, 2007
Pre-publication Celebration & Book Signing
for Peter's Story (with Peter Pizzino)
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
North Shore Bank
600 E. Green Tree Road
Fox Point, Wisconsin
Friday, September 14, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Featured Reader, w/ Kim Blanchette
Village Booksmith
Baraboo, Wisconsin
Saturday, September 15, 2007 - all day
Authors Carnival
Brandon Public Library
Brandon, Wisconsin
I will be speaking from 10:40-11:10 a.m.
and signing books at 1:00 p.m.
Monday, October 1, 2007 - 7:00 p.m.
Reading
Montello Public Library
Montello, Wisconsin
Friday, October 5, 2007 - 10:00-10:30 a.m.
Radio interview about
Idea of the Local & Peter's Story
with Jim Stowell
WBEV - AM1430
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
Saturday, October 6, 2007 - 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Book Signing (with Peter Pizzino)
for Peter's Story and Idea of the Local
Book World
116 Front Street, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Peter's Story Celebration
7:00 p.m. - Talk about the Pizzino-Montag collaboration
6:30-8:00 p.m. - Book Signing for Peter's Story (with Peter Pizzino)
Northshore Library
6800 N. Port Washington Road
Glendale, Wisconsin
Friday, October 12, 2007 - 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Book Signing - Idea of the Local and Peter's Story
Book World
85 S. Main Street
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 4:00 p.m.
Reading
"Wisconsin's Poets Laureate and Finalists"
Wisconsin Book Festival
State Historical Museum
816 State Street
Madison, Wisconsin
Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Book Signing (with Peter Pizzino)
Book World
Watson Street, Ripon, Wisconsin
Reading from Peter's Story at 11:00 a.m.
Reading from The Idea of the Local at 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Board Meeting
Wisconsin Center for the Book
Madison, Wisconsin
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - 7:00 p.m.
Reading/Presentation & Booksigning
with Peter Pizzino
Schwartz Bookshop
Downer Avenue
Milwaukee Wisconsin
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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
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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