Friday, September 12, 6:30pm

CMarie Fuhrman is a writer whose work is shaped by the Western landscape. She is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam, as well as the co-editor of two significant anthologies, the multiple award-winning Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry, and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has poetry and nonfiction published or forthcoming in a variety of publications, including Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Northwest Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Poetry Northwest, Big Sky Journal, and various anthologies. CMarie is the director of the Elk River Writers Workshop and an award-winning columnist for The Inlander. She is the Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, where she also teaches poetry and nature writing. CMarie is the host of Terra Firma, a Colorado Public Radio program, and has appeared in poetry films and nature documentaries. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and makes her home in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.

Wednesday, September 24, 6pm

Join author John Clayton and Glacier National Conservancy Executive Director Doug Mitchell for an engaging evening of conversation and community. Natural Rivals traces the contrasting philosophies of John Muir, the idealistic naturalist who fought to preserve wilderness, and Gifford Pinchot, the pragmatic founder of the U.S. Forest Service who promoted sustainable resource management. Their rivalry, highlighted by the Hetch Hetchy dam debate and earlier experiences like their 1896 camping trip in Montana, shaped the creation of America’s public lands system. The book explores how their competing approaches ultimately helped establish national parks and forests, highlighting the lasting impact of their differing visions.

Friday, October 3, 6:30pm

Joe Wilkins was born and raised in eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon, where he directs the creative writing program at Linfield University. He is the author of two novels, The Entire Sky and Fall Back Down When I Die, both of which have garnered wide critical acclaim. Wilkins is also the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, and five collections of poetry, including Pastoral, 1994 and When We Were Birds. A finalist for the First Novel Prize from the Center For Fiction, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and the Orion Book Award, Wilkins has won the Oregon Book Award, the Montana Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, and three High Plains Book Awards. You can find him online at https://joewilkins.org/ and https://joewilkinswriter.substack.com/.