Livingston, Montana poet Michael Earl Craig was educated at the University of Montana, the University of Massachusetts, and the Kentucky Horseshoeing School. He has published three collections of poetry, most recently Thin Kimono, out last year from Wave Books, the highly regarded poetry press in Seattle. There’s no sense of the cookie-cutter in Craig’s poetry tool kit; his poems feature an unusually …
“Golden Richards is a husband and father whose four wives and 28 children compete for his time while he tries to make a living as a builder. Without vilifying the polygamist lifestyle, Brady Udall sets a very ordinary man into an overwhelming family situation. This is a family at a crossroads, and through them we …
One of the best things about indie bookstores is the quirk factor—that their booksellers can promote old books by authors whose last names most people can’t pronounce or play Jim Croce loudly while singing along (also loudly). This is why we love Chapter One in Hamilton, Montana. Somewhere in the heart of the Bitterroot Valley …
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