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A Métis storyteller and Little Shell Chippewa member, La Tray received the Montana Book Award for his book, “One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large,” and has been traveling Montana extensively as the Poet Laureate for the biennial 2023-2024.
Activities at the Missoula Public Library this week:
Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a
First of all, what exactly is a Poet Laureate, and what journey was taken to receive this esteemed honor?
If anyone could make “huckleberry” rhyme with “orange,” or some equally elegiac formation, it would be the new Montana Poet Laureate Chris LaTray.