Arts Council offering poetry workshop, reading with Lowell Jaeger

As part of the Arts Council of Big Sky’s education and outreach efforts, Montana Poet Laureate Lowell Jaeger will be leading a poetry workshop on Thursday, October 25th, followed by a community reading event on Friday, Oct. 26th, at the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center. Both events are free and open to the general public.
               The poetry workshop will be held form 6–8pm in the conference room of the Big Sky Water and Sewer Building, located at 561 Little Coyote Rd. Each participant is asked to bring one original poem. The event is free but advance registration is required as only a limited number of spaces are available. Please call the ACBS office at (406) 995-2742 to register for the class. This workshop is for high schoolers through adults.
“Everyone can sing, everyone can dance, everyone can paint, and everyone can write poems,” Jaeger says. “Poetry, like any art, is a mode of human expression. Sure, some of us are more accomplished than others, but all of us have a right to give it a go. I love best of all to witness writers in my workshops surprising themselves.”
The community reading will take place at 6:30pm at the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center. No advance tickets are required and seating is on a first come, first served basis. At Jaeger’s readings, expect humor, expect serious reflection, and expect to examine the “human condition” in all its marvelous complexity. He enjoys interacting with audiences and sharing the stage with other Montana poets. In between reading from his own work, he often recites from memory the poems of Robert Frost, Donald Hall, and Richard Wilbur, among others.
Lowell Jaeger, the Montana Poet Laureate for 2017-19, is a nationally recognized poet who for the past 30 years in Montana has delighted diverse audiences with readings, lectures, discussions, radio shows and poetry workshops. During this time he has also served on an array of arts and humanities initiatives from Montana School Districts, Glacier Institute, Elderhostel, Montana Arts Council, Humanities Montana, American Library Association and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities. He has authored six books of poems, his work has been published over 300 times in a variety of national journals, he serves as editor of Many Voices Press and he gives tirelessly of his time to a wide range of community organizations. Lowell has been an educator for more than three decades at Flathead Valley Community College.
For more information about the Lowell Jaeger and other upcoming events, please call (406) 995-2742 or visit www.bigskyarts.org.