the NEW LAKES
reading and performance series presents

the series finale:



THE LIGHT IS NOT THE USUAL LIGHT

Special thanks to Norma Cole--
recorded in San Francisco--March 2008


Music by
Antony and the Johnsons


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To the community:

thank you one and all

New Lakes No. 39

KEVIN GOODAN

Kevin Goodan at Shakespeare & Co.

And what is there, finally, to hold--
The ewe gone hoarse from bleating,
The lamb in me not singing to be saved.

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Thanks to all who helped put New Lakes No. 39 together:


Matthew Kaler, Garth and Jenna at Shakespeare
& Co. Bookstore, Jack Gilbert, the bag of Russet potatoes,
and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel.


And a very special thank you to Kevin Goodan.

Coming Soon!! May 14th!! Coming Soon!!

the NEW LAKES
SPRING 2009 READING SERIES PRESENTS

an evening of poetry by

KEVIN GOODAN

Thursday, May 14th, 7:00pm
at Shakespeare & Co.
103 S. 3rd St. West
Missoula, Montana


Kevin Goodan was raised in Ronan, Montana and began working
for the U.S. Forest Service in his teens. He attended the University
of Montana, and received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts--
Amherst. His first book of poems, In The Ghost-House Acquainted
was awarded the L.L. Winship/PEN New England award in 2005.
His second book, Winter Tenor, will be published in May 2009
by Alice James Books. Kevin is currently Assistant Professor
at Lewis-Clark State College, and faculty advisor of Talking River.


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for more information contact:
newlakes@gmail.com

New Lakes No. 38

Cynthia Hogue and Sarah Vap




Do we all go through this floating
from time to time?



The blackening woods at evening
are beside me, pulling rabbits. Pulling rabbits.


Sarah Vap at the Dana Gallery



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Thanks to all who helped put New Lakes No. 38 together:


Ken White, Leslie Scalapino, Caitie Moore, Liz
and the Dana Gallery, Todd Fredson, Kisha Lewellyn
Schlegel and Sarah Kunst.


And a very special thank you to Sarah Vap and Cynthia Hogue.

Coming Soon! April 17th!! Coming Soon!

the NEW LAKES
SPRING 2009 READING SERIES PRESENTS

an evening of poetry by

SARAH VAP and CYNTHIA HOGUE

Friday, April 17th, 7:30pm
at THE DANA GALLERY
246 N. Higgins St., Missoula, MT



Sarah Vap is the author of Dummy Fire, which won the 2006 Saturnalia Poetry Prize, and American Spikenard, which won the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is co-editor of poetry for the online journal 42 Opus, and lives with her husband, and their two sons on the Olmypic Peninsula. Her next book, Faulkner's Rosary, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2010.




Cynthia Hogue has published five collections of poetry, most recently
The Incognito Body (Red Hen Press 2006), and has co-edited
Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
and Interviews (University of Iowa Press, 2006). She lives in Phoenix,
Arizona with her husband, the French economist Sylvain Gallais.
She teaches at Arizona State University. Her sixth collection,
Or Consequence, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2010.



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New Lakes No. 37


CHRIS DOMBROWSKI



Already we’ve
some of us slid back into our bodies,
restirring the air our breaths stirred
all night — whoever we are while
we sleep — and gone about believing
we are here.




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Thanks to all who helped put New Lakes No. 37 together:


Natalie Peeterse, Garth and Jenna at Shakespeare
& Co. Bookstore, James Galvin, Michael Fitzgerald, Catherine Jones,
Lyle, Toby the clown, and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel.


And a very special thank you to Chris Dombrowski.

Coming Soon! April 11th!! Coming Soon!

the NEW LAKES
SPRING 2009 READING SERIES PRESENTS

an evening of poetry with

CHRIS DOMBROWSKI

Saturday, April 11th, 7:30pm
at Shakespeare & Co.
103 S. 3rd St. West


Chris Dombrowski's first book of poems, By Cold Water, is published by Wayne State University Press. Also the author of a chapbook, Fragments with Dusk in Them (Punctilious Press), his poems have appeared in such journals as Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Orion, Poetry, and others. The recent recipient of a writing fellowship from the UCROSS Foundation, he lives with his family in Missoula, Montana.





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New Lakes No. 36

Susanne Dyckman and Elizabeth Robinson

Elizabeth Robinson at the Dana Gallery

...no lemons, no images, no more eternal than this, the image/turns to theft as its tidal.



In my perfect form, I am smaller than myself.



Susanne Dyckman at the Dana Gallery

no one asks how many//even when I look above a horse's head//to vender, friend//or why I call in quiet//do you want an inky sheet of print? do you want two?




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Thanks to all who helped put New Lakes No. 36 together:


Lewis H. Hine, Lindsay Bland, John Olson, Liz and
the Dana Gallery, Larry Eigner, Caitie Moore,
Lorine Niedecker and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel.


And a very special thank you to Susanne Dyckman and Elizabeth Robinson.

coming soon • MARCH 27th • coming soon

the NEW LAKES
SPRING 2009 READING SERIES PRESENTS
an evening of poetry with

SUSANNE DYCKMAN, ELIZABETH ROBINSON
and KERRI WEBSTER

Friday, March 27th, 7:00pm
at the DANA GALLERY
246 N. Higgins • Missoula, MT 59801

Susanne Dyckman is the author of two chapbooks, Transiting Indigo (Etherdome Press) and Counterweight (Woodland Editions). Her first full-length book of poetry, equilibrium’s form, was released by Shearsman Books in 2007. A thesis advisor for the University of San Francisco MFA program and an editor of the journal Five Fingers Review, she lives in Albany, California.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Under That Silky Roof and Apostrophe. She has won the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize. She is co-editor of the EtherDome Chapbook series and Instance Press.


Kerri Webster is Writer in Residence at Washington University. Her first book, We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone, was published by the University of Georgia in 2005. She’s the author of two chapbooks—Rowing Through Fog, published by the Poetry Society of America in 2003, and Psalm Project, published this year by Albion Books.


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NEW LAKES No. 35

Michael Dumanis and Sabrina Orah Mark

Michael Dumanis at the Dana Gallery


this would-be obscured / trap of doorway and these /
various passions of clowns /along with them the memory /
of riding a train / through a forest on fire

Sabrina Orah Mark at the Dana Gallery

I am oldyr than PoLand today, but not more sadly.
You did no me once, didn’t you? Please send byrds.


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Thanks to all who helped put New Lakes No. 35 together:


July Cole, Liz and the Dana Gallery, the bear in the sw corner,
Vampire Weekend, Meryl Streep and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel

And a very special thank you to Michael Dumanis and Sabrina Mark

coming soon • FEBRUARY 21st • coming soon


the NEW LAKES
SPRING 2009 READING SERIES
PRESENTS

an evening of poetry with
MICHAEL DUMANIS and SABRINA ORAH MARK


Saturday February 21st, 7:30pm
at the DANA GALLERY
246 N. Higgins • Missoula, MT 59801


Sabrina Orah Mark's first book of poems, The Babies, won the 2004 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize (judged by Jane Miller), and was published by Saturnalia Books. Woodland Editions published her chapbook, Walter B.'s Extraordinary Cousin Arrives for a Visit & Other Tales. Her poems appear in many journals, most recently in Harvard Review, Boston Review, and Conduit. Tsim Tsum, her next book of poems, will be published by Saturnalia Books in 2009. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Glenn Schaeffer Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at Agnes Scott College and The University of Georgia.



Michael Dumanis is the author of My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), winner of the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the coeditor of Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). His first ever publication was in the Montana journal Cutbank in 1999, and he has since had work appear in numerous journals including Black Warrior Review, The Denver Quarterly, Post Road, and Verse. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Cleveland State Univerisity, where also serves as the director of a small press, the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.

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NEW LAKES No. 34

Sarah Gridley and Brian Teare



Brian Teare at the Dana Gallery

Let matter rest/in belief//it has lent itself
to all our purposes//liminal and image
the way veronica is//a flower
a girl watching/a matador//wave his cape
over charging eyes—



Sarah Gridley

I know this taste of your steep decline: the shale and brook inside me.
Comes love, the Devonian geology, sweet fissile
of attention, the old nerves in fresh sheets.

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Thanks to all who helped put New Lakes No. 34 together:


Caitie Moore, Grace Egbert, Paul Leisher, the Dana Gallery,
Brian Blanchfield, Nick DeCesare, Jeremy Smith, Miles Davis,
Crissie McMullan, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel and John Myers


And a very special thank you to Sarah Gridley and Brian Teare

coming soon • NOVEMBER 22 • coming soon


the NEW LAKES
FALL 2008 READING SERIES
continues

with an evening of poetry by
SARAH GRIDLEY and BRIAN TEARE

Saturday November 22nd, 7:30pm
at the DANA GALLERY

246 North Higgins • Missoula, MT 59801

Sarah Gridley is the author of two books of poetry: Weather Eye Open,
published by the University of California Press, Berkeley, in 2005,
and Green Transistor, due out from California in 2010. She received
an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana in 2000 and is currently
a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Brian Teare is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Colony. He was also a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. He has published poetry and criticism in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter, Seneca Review, Verse and VOLT, among many other journals. His first book, The Room Where I Was Born, was winner of the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. Two new books are forthcoming: Sight Map (University of California, 2009) and Pleasure (Ahsahta, 2010). He lives, teaches and makes books by hand in San Francisco.

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NEW LAKES No. 33

Martin Corless-Smith and Katy Lederer

Michael Fitzgerald and Martin Corless-Smith at the ZACC

I often wished I had a farm
A garden Where
My Parsley Crowns were spread

I ask you: what do poets know of capital?
Across this harp, their fingers play a Nietzschean revival.
I envy them their will to power.



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Thanks to all who helped put NEW LAKES No. 33 together:

Lindsay Bland, Violet Olsen, Zootown Arts Community Center,
Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel, Erik Satie, Frank Sinatra, Robert
Morris, Russell Parks and the Missoulian Angler


A special thank you to Martin Corless-Smith and Katy Lederer

Coming Soon • November 1 • Coming Soon


the NEW LAKES
FALL 2008 READING SERIES
continues

with an evening of poetry by
Martin Corless-Smith and Katy Lederer

Saturday November 1st, 7:30pm
at Zootown Arts Community Center
235 N. 1st St. Missoula, MT 59801


photo by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections Winter Sex and The Heaven-Sent Leaf. Her published memoir is titled Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers. Currently a poetry editor of Fence Magazine, she edited her own magazine, Explosive, from 1996 to 2006. Her honors and awards include fellowships from The Iowa Writers' Workshop, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives in the borough of Brooklyn and worked for many years for a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan.



Martin Corless-Smith directs the MFA program at Boise State University. His fifth collection, English Fragments/A Brief History of the Soul is forthcoming from Fence in 2010.

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NEW LAKES No. 32
Melissa Kwasny and Rusty Morrison

Rusty Morrison at the ZACC

I pitch my listening to the tone of ivy growing.

Melissa Kwasny's forthcoming Reading Novalis in Montana

If our days are the ritual we perform for the dead.


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Thanks to all who helped put New Lakes 32 together.

Special thanks to Chris Dombrowski, Hanna Hannan and the
Zootown Arts Community Center, Etta James, Caitie Moore,
Russell Parks and the Missoulian Angler,
Lisa Schumaier and Jeremy N. Smith

A special thank you to Melissa Kwasny and Rusty Morrison

Coming Soon • October 9 • Coming Soon


the NEW LAKES
FALL 2008 READING SERIES
returns

with an evening of poetry by
Rusty Morrison and Melissa Kwasny

Thursday October 9th, 7:30pm
at Zootown Arts Community Center
235 N. 1st Street, Missoula, MT 59801

Rusty Morrison's book the true keeps calm biding its story won Ahsahta's 2007 Sawtooth Prize and recently received the 2008 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Whethering, her first poetry book, won the 2004 Colorado Prize for Poetry. She has received PSA's Alice Fay DiCastagnola (2007), Cecil Hemley (2006), and Robert H. Winner (2003) Memorial Awards. Her poems, essays, &/or reviews appeared or will appear in American Poetry Review, Bomb, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Pleiades, Rain Taxi, Volt, Verse, and elsewhere. She recently won the 2008 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry from Cutbank, the University of Montana's literary magazine. She is co-publisher of Omnidawn Publishing.


Melissa Kwasny is the author of four books of poetry: Earth
Attar (due out from Milkweed in early 2011), Reading
Novalis in Montana (due out January from Milkweed
Editions), Thistle (Lost Horse Press 2006 winner of the Idaho
Prize), and The Archival Birds (Bear Star Press 2000),
as well as the editor of Toward the Open Field: Poets
on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 (Wesleyan University
Press 2004). She has also published two novels, most
recently Trees Call for What They Need (Spinsters Ink 1995).

Kwasny's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Boston
Review, Poetry Northwest, Seneca Review, Three Penny
Review, Bellingham Review, Kenyon Review, Willow
Springs, and many more journals. She recently won
the Joy Harjo Prize for her prose poem series "The Under
World." She was the Richard Hugo Visiting Poet
in 2005 and Visiting Writer at the University
of Wyoming in 2004. She is currently Visiting Writer
at Eastern Washington University.
She lives outside Jefferson City, Montana.

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for more information, contact: newlakes@gmail.com

The Spring 2008 Season

of the New Lakes reading and performance series

has come to a close

Thank you to everyone who participated in the season, especially the featured artists: Justin Boening, Timothy Donnelly, Breting Engel, Laura Foster, Richard Greenfield, Christine Hume, Andy Lemann, Joe Loviska, Catherine Meng, Tessa Moeckel, m.o.m.s., Andrew Nance, Dan Ostmann, Katherine Painter, Jeremy Pataky, Katie Peterson, Courtney Saunders, Tommy and the Men!, Travis Sehorn and the Pebble Light, Ken White and Youth & Valor

And to all who helped put the season together, especially Elisabeth Benjamin, Jeanne & Neil Chaput de Saintonge, Grace Egbert, Lucas Farrell, Travis Fortney, Elliot Frederickson, Gallery Saintonge, Katie & Scott Gill, Kristen Gleason, Anne-Marie Inge, Nabil Kashyap, Joanna Klink, the Missoula Writing Collaborative, Caitie Moore, Catherine Moore, Page Orb, Russell Parks & the Missoulian Angler, Jeremy Pataky, Niki Payton, Zach Radford, Kerri Rosenstein, Kisha Schlegel, Scotty's Table and Ken White

A special thank you to Aimee Lewis and Rob Schlegel

And to all who attended, thank you

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The New Lakes has hosted over 100 artists since late 2004, including poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, filmmakers, video and visual artists, DJs and musicians -- from Missoula, Montana and beyond. To learn more about the series, including all past and forthcoming events, and to connect to national audio and reading series sites, visit: thenewlakes.blogspot.com or email newlakes@gmail.com

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The New Lakes will resume in the Fall of 2008

Goodnight

!TONIGHT!
the Spring Season Finale
Friday, June 6th, 2008

poetry by
RICHARD GREENFIELD & CATHERINE MENG

music by
YOUTH & VALOR

Friday, June 6th, 7:00 pm
at the home of Kisha & Rob Schlegel
1875 Missoula Avenue, in the Rattlesnake Valley of Missoula
Free & Open to All




Richard Greenfield is the author of A Carnage in the Lovetrees (University of California Press), which was listed as a Top Ten University Press Book by BookSense in 2003. Omnidawn will publish his second book, Tracer, early in 2009. His poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review, Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, Lit, Soft Targets, Volt, and others, and he was a finalist for the 2008 Sawtooth Prize chosen by C.D. Wright. He is an editorial adviser for Noemi Press and co-editor of Apostrophe Books, a small press of poetry, which began publishing books in 2007. He was recently a visiting writer at Brown University (listen to a clip). Born in Hemet, California, he spent his early childhood in Southern California and later lived in the Pacific Northwest. He earned an MFA from the University of Montana in 1999, and a PhD in English at the University of Denver in 2005. In the fall, he will be Assistant Professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln.

Catherine Meng was raised in Massachusetts. She spent time in New Mexico, Montana and cooking school before moving to the Bay Area in 2000 where she currently resides. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, jubilat, 14 Hills, The Fulcrum Annual, Crowd, Combo, Fence, among other places. She is the author of a chapbook, 15 Poems In Sets of 5 (Anchorite Press, 2006) and a full-length collection of poems, Tonight's the Night (Apostrophe Books, 2007). The publication of her chapbook, Dokument, by Carve Editions, is imminent.

Youth & Valor is music created by Courtney Saunders and some of her friends, including Andy "The Jolly Swagman" Lemann and Breting "Lucky" Engel. Visit Youth & Valor here.

TONIGHT • APRIL 18th • TONIGHT

the Spring series continues

with an evening of poetry
by TIMOTHY DONNELLY & KEN WHITE

Friday, April 18, 7:30 pm
Gallery Saintonge
216 North Higgins Avenue
downtown Missoula



Timothy Donnelly’s Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit was published by Grove Press in 2003. He has been poetry editor of Boston Review since 1995. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals, including American Letters & Commentary, The Canary, Conduit, Crowd, The Denver Quarterly, Fence, jubilat, The Literary Review, The Modern Review, The Paris Review, PEN America, Ploughshares, A Public Space, TriQuartely, Volt, and many others. They have also appeared in such anthologies as Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets, Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, and Poetry Daily: Poems from the World’s Most Popular Website. They have been translated into German and Italian and a book-length selection of his work will be published in Germany this spring. His prose has appeared in American Poet, Publisher’s Weekly, Verse, and elsewhere. He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry in the Writing Division of Columbia University’s School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

Ken White lives in Montana.

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gathering to follow at 1141 Cleveland Street
ask a familiar face for directions

COMING SOON • APRIL 8th • COMING SOON

featuring music by
m.o.m.s.
Tommy and the Men!
Travis Sehorn and the Pebble Light

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Justin Boening earned a BA in English from the University of Montana, and attended two Summer Writer's Colonies at The New School in Manhattan's West Village. He was recently awarded a Writing Fellowship from Columbia University's School of the Arts, and plans on attending their MFA program in the Fall.

Laura Foster will be graduating this May and is obsessed with the idea of moving to The South. She loves drinking Old Fashioneds, eating fatty-elk burgers, cowboy poetry, owl imagery, catfish, and Barcelona. She hopes one day to marry a bearded boy who essentially looks like James Taylor in the 70's. She also cannot stop listening to Dire Straits or reading Faulkner. She gets inspired when eating chocolate and cheese at the same time.

Joe Loviska grew up in the northern suburbs of Seattle, Washington, as a carefree little white kid who liked to play in the woods and write fanciful poems. Since then, he's lived short stints in Missoula and Helena, Montana; Zihuatanejo, Mexico; Hood River, Oregon; and Brno, Czech Republic. He has worked as a toy store clerk, bicycle mechanic, production assistant to the Seattle Mariners, geologists' field aide, gardener, and manny. Joe hopes to be the voice of suburban kid-poets who like to play in the woods, and the confused people they become.

Tessa Moeckel was born and raised in Montana. Blue damselflies and old clocks make her happy, asparagus does not.

Andrew Nance grew up in northern California and northern Michigan. He majored in visual arts at the Interlochen Arts Academy and has exhibited artwork in Michigan, New York, and England. He currently studies Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Montana.

Katherine Painter likes the sound of knuckles banging on a watermelon and often holds her ear up to others' ears and listens for the ocean.

Christine Hume

Are you lonely? / Something shat on my shadow. My shadow sat on its stolen body



Jeremy Pataky

You were the only one going anywhere, / the gravel pelted the underbelly / of the vehicle, you squinted into the brightness as / you went out from there where you were.

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Thank you to the individuals who helped to put New Lakes 29 together, especially Christine Hume and Jeremy Pataky

Special thank you to Grace Egbert, Katie Gill, Scott Gill and Scotty's Table

Thank you also to Elisabeth Benjamin, Califone, Simon Detar, Lucas Farrell, Polly Jean Harvey, Nabil Kashyap, Paul Leisher, Aimee Lewis, Russell Parks & the Missoulian Angler, Rob Schlegel, Bill Stubblefield, Ugly Duckling Presse and Ben Weiss

COMING SOON • MARCH 15th • COMING SOON

the Spring series continues

with an evening of poetry
by CHRISTINE HUME & JEREMY PATAKY

Saturday, March 15, 7:30 pm
at the new "Scotty's Table at the Wilma" space
131 So. Higgins Avenue/Parkside




Christine Hume is the author of Musca Domestica (Beacon Press, 2000), winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, Alaskaphrenia (New Issues, 2004), winner of the Green Rose Award and Small Press Traffic’s 2005 Best Book of the Year Award, and a chapbook and CD Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense (Ugly Duckling Presse 2008). Her work has been translated into German, Dutch, and Slovenian. In 2002, she was one of two Americans invited to an international festival, “Days of Poetry and Wine” in Slovenia; in 2006, she taught a poetry workshop in St. Petersburg for Summer Literary Seminars. Find her critical essays and reviews on contemporary writing in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Chicago Review, Constant Critic, Lyric, Aufgabe, Context, Rain Taxi, and How2 as well as three volumes of a series by Wesleyan Poets in the 21st Century. The Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, Valaparisio Foundation in Spain, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire have awarded her residencies. She is currently on sabbatical at Eastern Michigan University.



Seven days after he was born, Jeremy Pataky left Little Rock, Arkansas. Eighteen years later he left Idaho for Bellingham, Washington. He left Bellingham on a sailboat to see Alaska. He left Alaska for the MFA Creative Writing program in Missoula. He'll leave Missoula for Alaska in May. He has, does, or will work as a soft serve server, snowplow driver, tutor, tour guide, writer, bus driver, barista, ice climbing, glacier hiking & backcountry guide, teacher, tiler, bit shaver, getterer, lag screwer, and air hole driller. He hopes the stove got turned off.

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NEW LAKES No. 28
DANIEL OSTMANN & KATIE PETERSON


Daniel Ostmann

We sleep within // an evasion, a hotel above the sea-surface / by migrations of grays broken, / passing over slick streets in our city of / infrequent rains and mountain lions unable // to grace the margin uninjured

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Katie Peterson

Exit into the forest of archetype: / then I knew shapes / had been deluded into persons, / and I was one of them

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Thank you to the individuals who helped to put New Lakes 28 together, especially Daniel Ostmann and Katie Peterson

Thank you also to Elisabeth Benjamin, Jeanne Chaput de Saintonge, Bob Dylan, Lucas Farrell, Travis Fortney, Gallery Saintonge, Anne-Marie Inge, Joanna Klink, Aimee Lewis, Catherine Moore, Page Orb, Fairfield Porter, Kerri Rosenstein, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel, Rob Schlegel, Schubert and Jane St. John

TONIGHT • FEBRUARY 29th • TONIGHT

the Spring series commences

with an evening of poetry
by DANIEL OSTMANN & KATIE PETERSON

Friday, February 29, 7:30 pm
at Gallery Saintonge, 216 N. Higgins Avenue




Daniel Ostmann is a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Montana. His recent poems have appeared in Greatcoat and NEO. He works in the fire management program at Lassen Volcanic National Park and lives in Mineral, California.



Katie Peterson was born in California and wrote a book called This One Tree (New Issues, 2006) while she wrote a dissertation called "Supposed Person" about Emily Dickinson at Harvard University. She returned to California to teach poetry and the humanities at Deep Springs, a very small college, in the Deep Springs Valley just over the border from Nevada. You can find her poems in the American Poetry Review and CutBank and the Zoland Poetry Annual. You can find her reviews in the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Review. You can find her in the desert, and lose her there too.

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for more information, contact: newlakes@gmail.com

The Fall/Winter 2007 Season

of the New Lakes reading and performance series

has come to a close

Thanks to everyone who participated in the season, especially the featured artists: Adam Clay, Michael Earl Craig, Grace Egbert, Kate Greenstreet, Anthony Hawley, Joanna Klink, Chelsey Minnis, Jeremy Pataky, Brandon Shimoda, Heather Tone, Jen Tynes and Mike Wanzenried

And to all who helped put the season together, especially: Adelaide Every, Forward Montana, Kristen Gleason, Youna Kwak, Paul Leisher, Aimee Lewis, Russell Parks & the Missoulian Angler, Jeremy Pataky, Amy Ratto Parks, Kerri Rosenstein & Gallery Saintonge, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel, Rob Schlegel, Prageeta Sharma, Dale Sherrard, Andy Smetanka and Patricia Thornton & Ceretana Gallery

And to all who attended, thank you

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The New Lakes has hosted over 70 artists since late 2004, including poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, filmmakers, video and visual artists, DJs and musicians -- from Missoula, Montana and beyond. To learn more about the series, including all past and forthcoming events, and to connect to national audio and reading series sites, visit: thenewlakes.blogspot.com or email newlakes@gmail.com

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The New Lakes will resume in late Winter of 2008. Details to come...

Goodnight

WINTER INTERLUDE
January 4th, 2007



the New Lakes
will be participating
in a First Friday exhibition
of recent work by Andy Smetanka
at Forward Montana
curated by Adelaide Every

with a reading by Grace Egbert, Jeremy Pataky, Brandon Shimoda, Heather Tone & Michael Wanzenried

Friday, January 4, 5-8 pm
Reading at 7 pm
at Forward Montana, 736 South Higgins Avenue

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TONIGHT • NOVEMBER 9th • TONIGHT

the Fall series continues

with an evening of poetry
by JOANNA KLINK & BRANDON SHIMODA

Friday, November 9, 7:30 pm
at Gallery Saintonge, 216 N. Higgins Avenue



Joanna Klink
teaches poetry at the University of Montana. Her second book, Circadian, came out in July, and she's at work on a new book of crisis lyrics titled The Quiet.

Brandon Shimoda
also teaches poetry at the University of Montana. Two books are forthcoming in 2008 (Lake M, One and the Alps), with a third (お盆), currently in revision.

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Gathering to follow
at the home of Youna Kwak and Jeremy Pataky
502 South 6th Street East (corner of Helen)

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NEW LAKES No. 26
ADAM CLAY, KATE GREENSTREET & JEN TYNES


Kate Greenstreet at Gallery Saintonge, Missoula, Montana


Jen Tynes

The rabbit comes quickly / and I have to satisfy myself. / The bunny, another fattening / lipper, dispels me of all harmony.



Adam Clay

Danger is at hand and again, danger / laps its tongue across the envelope of sky, / the horizon dreamt of but never thought to warn.



Kate Greenstreet

I remember driving you somewhere. Driving, and it was snowy. / Nothing was figured out. / You said redemption looked like a painting of fire, after a fire.

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Thank you to the individuals who helped to put New Lakes 26 together, especially Adam Clay, Kate Greenstreet and Jen Tynes

Thank you also to Bob Dylan, Lucas Farrell, Lucian Freud, Max Greenstreet, Conan Kelly, Youna Kwak, Aimee Lewis, Chris Marker, Russell Parks and the Missoulian Angler, Kerri Rosenstein and Gallery Saintonge and Rob Schlegel

TONIGHT • OCTOBER 12th • TONIGHT


an evening of poetry
with ADAM CLAY, KATE GREENSTREET & JEN TYNES

Friday, October 12, 7:00 pm
at Gallery Saintonge, 216 North Higgins Avenue



Adam Clay is the author of The Wash and Canoe. He is Assistant Editor
at New Issues Press and a co-editor at both Third Coast and TYPO.
Recent poems appear in A Public Space, Sycamore Review, Quarterly
West, and elsewhere. Originally from Mississippi, he now lives in
Michigan.





Kate Greenstreet is the author of case sensitive (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and three chapbooks, Learning the Language (Etherdome Press, 2005), Rushes (above/ground press, 2007), and This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, forthcoming). Her second book, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in 2009. Visit her online at kickingwind.com.




Jen Tynes lives in Denver, Colorado and edits horse less press. She is the author of the following books, chapbooks, and collaborations: Found in Nature (horse less press 2004), The End Of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press 2005), The Ohio System, with Erika Howsare (Octopus Books 2006), See Also Electric Light (Dancing Girl Press 2007), and Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books, forthcoming 2008).

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NEW LAKES No. 25:
ANTHONY HAWLEY and HEATHER TONE


Anthony Hawley

the civilization of expanding comprehension / sighs, rolls up its sleeves / reluctantly, insurgents kiss it goodbye, say goodbye by candlelight / the point of it all is that no one is asking for better future / just a little bit more



Heather Tone

Home becomes nothing / you can picture / a molten hole / where you put and you / think // it hitched. What / I am disappears / a helium claw in the / blue wax—

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Thank you to the individuals who helped to put New Lakes 25 together, especially Anthony Hawley and Heather Tone


Thank you also to Beethoven, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Lucian Freud, Youna Kwak, Aimee Lewis, Russell Parks & The Missoulian Angler, Jeremy Pataky, Patricia Thornton and Tim Thornton

COMING SOON • OCTOBER 6th • COMING SOON

the Fall series continues

with an evening of poetry
by ANTHONY HAWLEY & HEATHER TONE

Saturday, October 6, 7:30 pm
in the Ceretana Gallery, 801 Sherwood Avenue
at the Ceretana Artist Studios



Anthony Hawley is the author of The Concerto Form (Shearsman Books, 2006) and four chapbooks, Afield (Ugly Duckling Presse 2004), Vocative (Phylum Press 2004), Record-breakers (Ori is the New Apple Press, 2007) and most recently, Autobiography/Oughtabiography
(Counterpath Press, October 2007). Recent poems have appeared/are forthcoming in web Conjunctions, The Tiny, Verse, 1913, and 26. He received a BA and MFA from Columbia University and served as an editor of Fence magazine for five years. Currently, he teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His second collection of poems, Imitation Sparrow, is forthcoming in 2008. He lives with his wife and daughter.



Heather Tone was born and raised in Montana. She attended the University of Montana and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She has recently moved back to Missoula.


with images and song

bring friends, beverages and friends's beverages

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for more information, contact: newlakes@gmail.com

NEW LAKES No. 24:
MICHAEL EARL CRAIG and CHELSEY MINNIS


Chelsey Minnis

This poem is a wish-killer… // It’s like trying to smash the two-way window… / And trying to get broke by writing… // This is like telling someone wearing a gorilla suit you don’t really love them...


Michael Earl Craig

I don’t know how to behave but / I know what I believe. I believe / that if I stick my head in the oven / I won’t take it out. I believe in / corduroy couch cushions. I believe / in digging a tunnel with a small / silver spoon. I believe in tunneling / with this spoon under the city / and never giving up.


overhead the Crystal Theater

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Thank you to the individuals who helped to put New Lakes 24 together, especially Michael Earl Craig and Chelsey Minnis


Thank you also to Bob Dylan, Lucian Freud, Youna Kwak, Aimee Lewis, Russell Parks & The Missoulian Angler, Rob Schlegel, Prageeta Sharma, Dale Sherrard and Caetano Veloso

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COMING SOON:
Anthony Hawley and Heather Tone
Saturday, October 6th
at the Ceretana Gallery

29 years ...

COMING SOON • SEPTEMBER 21st • COMING SOON

the NEW LAKES
FALL 2007 READING SERIES
returns

with an evening of poetry
by MICHAEL EARL CRAIG & CHELSEY MINNIS

Friday, September 21, 7:30 pm
at the Crystal Theater, 515 South Higgins Avenue
(in the back of 515 Restaurant)

MICHAEL EARL CRAIG is the author of Can You Relax In My House (Fence Books, 2002) and Yes, Master (Fence Books, 2006). He was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio and educated at the Universities of Montana and Massachusetts. He currently lives near Livingston, Montana, in the Shields Valley, where he works as a farrier.

CHELSEY MINNIS lives in Boulder, Colorado. Her first book, Zirconia won the Alberta Prize and was published by Fence Books in 2001. Her second book BAD BAD also published by Fence Books came out fall 2007. They are both available through small press distribution and on Amazon.com. Her third book Poemland will be published by Wave Books in Spring 2009. Chelsey attended the University of Colorado and The Iowa writer's workshop. Her work has appeared in publications such as Shiny, Faucheuse, The Colorado Review, The Chicago Review, Court Green and others.

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with images and sound

post-reading party at the home of Prageeta Sharma and Dale Sherrard. Information to come.

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For additional information, write: newlakes@gmail.com

POETRY ON THE BUS
the inaugural reading

September 14, 2007
Mountain Line Transfer Center
downtown Missoula, Montana

The audience on West Pine Street


Soren Temple commences the reading


Rosie Cerquone and her poem "The Water, the Deer, and Me"

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Poetry on the Bus is a quarterly, seasonal installation of poetry on Missoula's Mountain Line Bus System, and is a project of the New Lakes, in association with Mountain Line, the Missoula Writing Collaborative and the City of Missoula.

The Poetry on the Bus project would like to thank the following people for their generous assistance in putting both the reading and the bus installation together: Kim Anderson and the Montana Festival of the Book, Chad & Erika and Pizza on the Fly, Mayor John Engen, Ray Hoff and Mountain Line, Angelo Jacques and Organic Imaging, Ginny Merriam, Russell Parks and the Missoulian Angler,

and especially all of the readers and participants: Remy Arnot, Alex Anderlik, Chloe Autio, Rowan Bear, Jill Beauchesne, Suzy Bertsche, Rosie Cerquone, Michael Earl Craig, Liza Crockett, Wesley Douglas, Emily Earl, Grace Egbert, Sydney Emett, Lucas Farrell, Shaun Gant, Henrietta Goodman, Emily Graham, Anastasia Halfpap, Justin Keehn, Joanna Klink, Melissa Kwasny, Winnie Lohof, Madison Mathias, Sierra Nichols, Solomon Nichols, Natalie Peeterse, Kayleigh Ruff, Tessa Samuels, Ripley Schemm, Soren Temple, Karen Volkman, Andrew Wall and Hannah Williams

COMING SOON • SEPTEMBER 14th • COMING SOON


POETRY ON THE BUS

Inaugural Reading

a quarterly installation of poetry
on Missoula's Mountain Line bus system


starring

the students of the Missoula Writing Collaborative's Summer Writing Program, including Alex A, Chloe A, Remy A, Rowan B, Suzy B, Liza C, Rosie C, Christian D, Wesley D, Emily E, Sydney E, Emily G, Anastasia H, Justin K, Chauncey L, Winnie L, Madison Young M, Sierra N, Solomon N, Kayleigh R, Soren T, Andrew W and Hannah W


and featuring

local poets Jill Beauchesne, Grace Egbert, Lucas Farrell, Shaun Gant, Henrietta Goodman, Joanna Klink, Melissa Kwasny, Natalie Peeterse, Ripley Schemm and Karen Volkman.

Friday, September 14, 4-5 p.m.
at the Mountain Line Transfer Center, 200 West Pine Street, in downtown Missoula.

With $1 slices of pizza, courtesy of Pizza on the Fly

in association with Mountain Line, the Missoula Writing Collaborative, the City of Missoula, Montana Festival of the Book, and Pizza on the Fly

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For additional information, write: newlakes@gmail.com or call: 549-2041

The Spring/Summer 2007 Season
of the New Lakes reading and performance series
has come to a close

Thanks to everyone who participated in the season, especially the featured artists: Dan Beachy-Quick, Christine Bown, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Julie Doxsee, The Enabler, Lucas Farrell, Greg Hill Jr, Matthew Kaler, Adrian Kien, Keetje Kuipers, Youna Kwak, Catherine Moore, Ethan Paquin, Zachary Schomburg, Sobriquet, Mathias Svalina, Janie Taylor, DJ Tygerlily, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Laurie White and Karena Youtz

And to all who helped put the season together, especially: The Benjamin-Kashyap-McDonald Household, Steffen Brown, Casey Charles, Grace Egbert, Lucas Farrell, Gerald Fetz & the College of Arts and Sciences, Claire Hibbs, Greg Hill Jr, Joanna Klink, Aimee Lewis, Jeremy Pataky, Russell Parks & the Missoulian Angler, Amy Ratto, Kerri Rosenstein & Gallery Saintonge, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel and Rob Schlegel

And to all who attended, thank you

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To hear audio from New Lakes No. 19: Dan Beachy-Quick and Christine Bown, introduced by Grace Egbert, visit: The Vault

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The New Lakes has hosted over 70 artists since late 2004, including poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, filmmakers, video and visual artists, DJs and musicians -- from Missoula, Montana and beyond. To learn more about the series, including all past and forthcoming events, and to connect to national audio and reading series sites, visit: thenewlakes.blogspot.com or email newlakes@gmail.com

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The New Lakes will resume in the Fall of 2007

Details to come...

Goodnight

NEW LAKES No. 23:
ADRIAN KIEN and KARENA YOUTZ


Karena Youtz

Maybe the simple request is return
from unnaturalness maybe reel
the whole time
in one moment after all (moments)
who can sense where one begins
or ends with utmost control
something other from the darkness pulls


Adrian Kien

Move from fawn to barracuda, be _exy
_oon enough you will move from killer to killed

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Thank you also to the individuals who helped to put New Lakes 23 together, especially Adrian Kien and Karena Youtz


Thank you to Steffen Brown, Aimee Lewis, Russell Parks & The Missoulian Angler, Amy Ratto, Kerri Rosenstein & Gallery Saintonge, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel and Rob Schlegel

NEW LAKES in the SUMMER
TONIGHT • JUNE 29th • TONIGHT

Live Poetry Downtown
featuring ADRIAN KIEN and KARENA YOUTZ

Tonight, Friday, June 29, 7:30 pm
at Gallery Saintonge
216 N. Higgins Avenue, downtown Missoula





Adrian Kien grew up in Missoula, Montana. Currently he is keeping his foods down and sitting upright. He has attempted self-annihilation but everytime he gets distracted by what might or might not be in his mouth. But is it really his? And who is he? He lives in Boise with his wife, the artist, Kelly Packer. Check out their collaborative project at www.kellypacker.com

Karena Youtz is a poet living in Boise, ID.

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For more information, email: newlakes@gmail.com

NEW LAKES No. 22:
JULIE DOXSEE, ZACHARY SCHOMBURG and MATHIAS SVALINA


Julie Doxsee

...balloons filled with / misread nightmares

swim up, searching for / the hand I can't close

my verb around


Zachary Schomburg

I know a place where we can escape the dead hummingbird problem, a lake no one knows about, cold and clean...


Mathias Svalina

I am so cold for the owls that build their tumorous strip malls, so cold for the melodies of the arias of collapse...


silent screening of Dead Man

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Thank you also to the individuals who helped to put New Lakes 22 together, especially Julie Doxsee, Allison Schomburg, Zachary Schomburg and Mathias Svalina


Thank you to Amanda & Tod, Greg Hill Jr, Aimee Lewis, Catherine Moore, Russell Parks & The Missoulian Angler, Amy Ratto, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel and Rob Schlegel

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COMING JUNE 29: Adrian Kien and Karena Youtz. Details to come...

NEW LAKES in the SUMMER
COMING SOON • JUNE 12th • COMING SOON



Tuesday, June 12, 7:00 pm
in the Backyard, 1875 Missoula Avenue, Rattlesnake Valley, Missoula
home of Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel and Rob Schlegel

rain-out location: Gallery Saintonge, 216 N. Higgins Avenue, downtown Missoula




Julie Doxsee’s forthcoming publications include a book, Undersleep (Octopus Books, Fall/Winter 2007/2008), and three chapbooks: Fog Quartets (horse less press, June 2007), You Will Build a City Out of Rags (Whole Coconut, Fall 2007), and New Body a Seafloor Body (Seeing Eye Books, March 2008). A chapbook, The Knife-Grasses is now available from Octopus Books. New poems will soon appear in Cranky, CutBank, Handsome, Copper Nickel, Pilot Poetry, Good Foot, LIT and other journals. She lives closer to Istanbul, Turkiye and further from Denver, CO by the day.

Zachary Schomburg's first book, The Man Suit, was published in Spring 2007 by Black Ocean Press. He has poems from a new manuscript in Denver Quarterly, Absent, Pilot, Saltgrass and Typo. He is pretty happy with these new poems. He co-edits Octopus Books and Octopus Magazine and co-curates The Clean Part Reading Series with M. He is driving a Toyota Corolla to Mount McKinley from Lincoln with A this summer.

Mathias Svalina was born in Chicago, Illinois to parents Mary Beth & John Svalina. He has three brothers, Steve, John & Barnabas. Steve lives in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, where he runs a low voltage wiring & high-end home theater business, Creative Wiring Solutions. John LIves in Heidelberg, Germany, where he is an Industrial Hygienist working for the US Army. Barnabas has recently moved to Roanoke, Virginia, where he works at a hardware store. Over the years Mathias's roommates have included Matthew, Peter, Andy, Sarah, Eric, George, Mary, Sean, Rachel, Travis, David, Shrive, Robert, Michael & Ashley. He now lives alone in a basement apartment that has a tendency to grow damp in the summers & cold in the winters. His first chapbook, Why I Am White, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press.

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COMING SOON: Friday, June 29: Adrian Kien and Karena Youtz. Details TBA.
For additional information, write: newlakes@gmail.com

NEW LAKES No. 21: ETHAN PAQUIN and POETS IN DEFENSE OF THE WHITE MOOSE, with music by CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES, THE ENABLER and SOBRIQUET



Ethan Paquin




For your own good. Keep straight
ahead, sparkling forest, go issue a report.
Find a spring drink from it and come
back, tell us about its heavenly taste
and its innocent trickling




Lucas Farrell
introducing the evening




Greg Hill Jr
When I was poor I was a white moose.
Now that I am rich I have bulimia.




Catherine Moore
When the mind is taken up in vision, and, cloud-capt, fire-breathing,
A creature like you, a spectre--to talk about seeking your fortune!




Cabinet of Natural Curiosities featuring (from left to right): Jane St. John (percussive statuesque), Andy Smetanka (saw), Jasmine Dreame Wagner (guitar, vocals, and sounds), Scott Kennedy (guitar), Kelly Ferguson (drums), Purrbot (keyboards and vocals), Doug Burke (upright bass), and Greg Hill Jr (guitar)








The Enabler & Sobriquet featuring Rachel McAdams as The Hot Chick

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Thank you to everyone who participated in New Lakes 21, above all Lucas Farrell and Ethan Paquin.

Thank you also to the individuals who helped to put the evening together, especially Doug Burke, Kelly Ferguson, Greg Hill Jr., Matthew Kaler, Scott Kennedy, Paul Leisher, Aimee Lewis, Louisa, Mark and the Stensrud Building, Catherine Moore, Russell Parks, Purrbot, Amy Ratto, Andy Smetanka, Jane St. John, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Ben Weiss, and Laurie White


Thank you also to Bjork, Masaki Kobayashi and Rob Schneider



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COMING IN JUNE: Julie Doxsee and Zachary Schomburg. Details to come...

COMING SOON • APRIL 7th • COMING SOON

THE WHITE MOOSE

poetry by ETHAN PAQUIN
featuring POETS in DEFENSE of the WHITE MOOSE

with music by CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES
(Kelly Ferguson, Purrbot, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, and friends)


Saturday, April 7, 7:30 pm
at the Stensrud Building, 314 N. 1st Street, on Missoula's Northside


ETHAN PAQUIN is the author of four books of poetry: My Thieves (Salt, 2007); The Violence (Ahsahta Press, 2005), which was a finalist for the PSA's William Carlos Williams Award; Accumulus (Salt, 2003); and The Makeshift (UK: Stride, 2002). A native of New Hampshire, he lives and teaches in Buffalo, NY.




The WHITE MOOSE

including Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Duncan, Lucas Farrell, Greg Hill Jr, Matthew Kaler, Catherine Moore, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Laurie White










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For additional information, write: newlakes@gmail.com

TONIGHT • MARCH 22nd • TONIGHT


an evening of poetry, featuring readings by
KEETJE KUIPERS and YOUNA KWAK

featuring the music of harpist JANIE TAYLOR
and Carly Dandrea a.k.a. KBGA's DJ Tygerlily

Thursday, March 22, 7:30 pm
at Gold Dust Gallery, 330 N. 1st Street, on Missoula's Northside



KEETJE KUIPERS completed her MFA at the University of Oregon. She has received fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency which will provide her with a year of solitude in Oregon's Rogue River Valley. She will use her time there to complete work on her manuscript, Beautiful in the Mouth, which contains poems currently published or forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Faultline, among others. You can hear her read her work at the online audio archive The Fishouse.

YOUNA KWAK was born in Seoul, Korea, raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, went to college in Providence, Rhode Island, studied in Paris, France, lived and worked in New York City, and now resides in Missoula, Montana. She would like you to consider the following writing prompt: Make an anagram of all the places you've ever lived. Write this anagram on a small yellow piece of paper; fold it up and drop it in a fedora. Later, pick the piece of paper out. Write a poem, in silence, about the fedora. Put the anagram in your pocket. Later let your hand stumble upon it, then write a sestina about what else you forgot.


Harpist JANIE TAYLOR became a full-time musician after a midlife career shift from freelance copyediting. She began studying the harp during her childhood in upstate New York, and in recent years has focused on the Celtic harp instead of the larger concert harp. She maintains a music studio for teaching in Missoula, Montana, and enjoys providing harp music wherever listeners wish to receive it-at weddings and funerals, in church, at the bedside. She currently is working on writing arrangements for several books of harp music.

CARLY DANDREA was born in Missoula, a fifth generation Montanan. She grew up in the Garnet range with no electricity or running water, just the beautiful silence of the mountain as her friend. At sixteen, she started filling the silence with poems, and continued writing and publishing poetry until her graduation from Hellgate High School. Seven years later, she's still working with the word, finishing a M.A. in English Literature. She is currently the lead amanuensis for Ghost Writers in the Big Sky, an non-profit collaborative of ghost writers capturing the memoirs of elderly Montanans.

During the summer of 2001, while living in an art colloquium, her friend Mooncat trained her in the arts of radio deejaying. She started volunteering for KBGA College Radio, and quickly rose through the ranks, becoming the station's general manager for 2003-04. She took her mixing out of the studio and into the streets, playing live for queer dance parties, lesbian weddings, straight weddings, art gallery nights, and now poetry readings. Known as "DJ Tygerlily," she holds down a regular radio spot on Saturday night from midnight to two on 89.9 FM. You can reach Carly at djtygerlily@gmail.com.

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For additional information, write: newlakes@gmail.com

NEW LAKES No. 19: DAN BEACHY-QUICK and CHRISTINE BOWN

the woods lit by the lantern / blown out our eyes / by bright stars no longer



in the violet zone of evening there is a whirring that nourishes separation



Grace Egbert introducing the evening



Gallery Saintonge, Missoula, Montana


Thank you to everyone who participated in New Lakes 19: Dan Beachy-Quick and Christine Bown, especially Dan, Christine, and Grace Egbert.

Thank you also to the individuals who helped to put the evening together, especially Bradin and Fact & Fiction, Casey Charles, Gerald Fetz, Ashley Gorham and Shakespeare & Company, Claire Hibbs-Cheff, Ashby Kinch, Kisha Lewellyn-Schlegel, Aimee Lewis, Jeremy Pataky, Amy Ratto, Kerri Rosenstein and Gallery Saintonge, and Jason Wiener.

Special thanks also to Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens.

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COMING SOON: Keetje Kuipers and Youna Kwak on Thursday, March 22nd at the Gold Dust Gallery. Details to come...

TONIGHT • MARCH 9th • TONIGHT


DAN BEACHY-QUICK and CHRISTINE BOWN
an evening of poetry, featuring a daytime lecture


READING : Friday, March 9, 7:30 pm
at Gallery Saintonge, 216 North Higgins Avenue

LECTURE, by Dan Beachy-Quick : Friday, March 9, 1:00 pm
Jeanette Rankin Hall, Room 204, University of Montana main campus

with a party to follow
at the home of Christine Bown
308 South 6th Street East



DAN BEACHY-QUICK teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of 3 books of poems: North True South Bright, Spell, and most recently, Mulberry. His reviews and essays appear variously. He is the recent recipient of a Lannan Foundation Residency.




CHRISTINE BOWN is, was, or will be a poet, a geologist, an actress, a paramedic, a film production assistant, a teacher, a trusted gourmand, and the proprietor of a laboratory of lexical preservation. She has spent time recently in Slovenia, St. Petersburg and New York City, and plans soon to spend time in Spain. She is currently a graduate student of literature and creative writing at the University of Montana.


For additional information, write: newlakes@gmail.com

The FALL 2006 season of the New Lakes reading and performance series has come to a close. Thanks to all who participated* and attended.


Special thanks to the following people for their participation and help with organizing and setting up for this season's events: Eric Abbott, Jason Kiely, Youna Kwak, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel, Aimee Lewis, Jeremy Pataky, Kerri Rosenstein, Shayna Schapp and Gallery Saintonge, and Rob Schlegel

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*the FALL 2006 Season featured:

poetry by Jill Beauchesne, Paul Fattaruso, Noah Eli Gordon, Janet Holmes, Claire Hibbs, Kristi Maxwell, Amy Ratto, Michael Rerick, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel, and Joshua Marie Wilkinson

prose by Paul Fattaruso, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel and Gita Saedi

a screening of Star Spangled Blues by Gita Saedi

a screening of Decasia by Bill Morrison

with accompanying music by The Beatles and Miles Davis


*to request a program booklet from any of the past shows, email newlakes@gmail.com

**coming soon: information about the 2007 season

TONIGHT, SATURDAY: the SEASON FINALE


an evening of poetry

with readings by JILL BEAUCHESNE and JANET HOLMES


Saturday, November 11, 7:30 pm
at Gallery Saintonge
216 North Higgins Avenue
in downtown Missoula


Party to follow
at the home of Youna Kwak and Jeremy Pataky
in celebration of two birthdays, and the final New Lakes event of 2006...

502 South 6th Street East (corner of Helen)

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JILL BEAUCHESNE lives in Missoula, Montana where she is finishing up her MA in Literature and MFA in Poetry this Fall. Her poems have been published in Gargoyle, nthposition, Octopus Magazine, Backwards City Review, Fourteen Hills, and Pebble Lake Review.

JANET HOLMES is author of the recently published F2F (U of Notre Dame, 2006), as well as Humanophone (U of Notre Dame, 2001), The Green Tuxedo (U of Notre Dame, 1998), and The Physicist at the Mall (Anhinga, 1994). Her work has twice been included in the annual Best American Poetry anthologies, and she has received numerous prizes and honors for her writing, including grants from the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and The Loft. She is director of Ahsahta Press, an all-poetry publishing house, and director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University, where she has taught since 1999.

COMING SOON


center : incarnate
an evening of poetry

with readings by Claire Hibbs and Amy Ratto


Thursday, November 2, 7:30 pm
at the Museum
223 Railroad Street
in the Brunswick Building
downtown Missoula


chocolate and cheese are encouraged; bring one, or both, and drinks

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CLAIRE HIBBS lives outside of Arlee, Montana where she regularly encounters bears, coyotes and cows on the dirt road winding up the canyon to her home. She was educated at Dartmouth College and at the University of Montana, where she received an MFA in Creative Writing. She has taught in Oakland, California, on the Navajo Nation, and at the University of Montana. She is passionate about giving all children the opportunity to attain an excellent education regardless of socio-economic or cultural background and currently works as a Program Design Specialist for Teach for America. Though the politics of inequity in public education pre-occupy her work-life, she also enjoys motherhood, playing in the outdoors and writing poetry.

AMY RATTO grew up within a block of four churches, two schools, the US Playing Card Company, and a GM factory. Luckily, she moved all the way across the country to Montana to live within a block of a bus station and a railyard, and has the pleasure of being in the flight path of the hospital helicopters and all planes landing at the Missoula airport.

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The final reading of the season - featuring Jill Beauchesne and Janet Holmes - is coming November 11th. Details to be announced.

COMING SOON


THE SAPLING HOUR
an evening of words and moving images

featuring readings by Kisha Lewellyn and Gita Saedi
with a screening of Star-Spangled Blues, a film by Gita Saedi


Thursday, October 26, 7:30 pm
the Stensrud Building
314 N. 1st Street
Missoula’s Northside

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GITA SAEDI has been making documentary films for the last 15 years. She decided to work in media during the reign of Bill Cosby, when she realized nobody looked like her on television. Before moving to Missoula in 2003, Gita lived and worked in Ireland, New York City and her native Chicago. Her non-fiction focus has been on issues of race and culture, producing documentaries for Channel 4 - UK, CBS, PBS and Miramax. She also works on a variety of non-broadcast community and labor union campaigns as both producer and editor.

KISHA LEWELLYN SCHLEGEL, recent fellow at New York's Blue Mountain Center and recipient of the Richard J. Margolis Award, writes and lives in Missoula.

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Forthcoming readings and performances listed to the right, and to be announced.