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Lowell Jaeger

Lowell Jaeger, the founding editor of Many Voices Press and Montana Poet Laureate (2017-2018), teaches creative writing at Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Montana. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, winner of the Grolier Poetry Peace Prize, and recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Montana Arts Council. He lives in Yellow Bay, Montana, on Flathead Lake.

Jaeger has been awarded the Montana Governor’s Humanities Award for his work with the Project on Civic Reflection (Valparaiso University) since 2004, serving as a national trainer, teaching others to lead discussion sessions. In Montana, he leads discussions with AmeriCorp and VISTA volunteers serving Montana Conservation Corps and Montana Campus Corps.  His essay about leading discussions with Montana Conservation Corps—”Picks, Pulaskis, and Poems”—was included in the “United We Serve” website for the Corporation for National and Community Service.

In addition to these considerable talents and accomplishments, Lowell also is a silversmith who creates wonderful jewelry.

Lowell has been a member-owner since March 2018.

Lowell's most recent book, Earth-blood & Star-shine, is available in paperback at the bookstore. Give us a call and we will set aside a copy for you.

Earth-blood & Star-shine by Lowell Jaeger (Author) 

ISBN: 9780991577286 

Published: Shabda Press - (March 15, 2018)

 

Lowell Jaeger, Montana Poet Laureate and member-owner at This House of Books, your community-owned, independent bookstore and tea shop in downtown Billings, Montana

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Lowell Jaeger
Current price: $17.60
Poetry. Between assembling an anthology of fellow Montana poets, Poems Across the Big Sky, and the still unpublished New Poets of the American West, Jaeger offers this collection of his own work. Author of Hope Against Hope (Utah State University Press, 1990) and War On War (Utah State University Pr ... Read More about
Martha Fox
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In her evocative, strikingly beautiful poems, Martha Fox treats a variety of topics with honesty, empathy, and close observation. This Arc of Assurances includes a section of poems that respond to the COVID pandemic; other poems respond to the natural world, to the mysteries of faith, and to human t ... Read More about
Lowell Jaeger
Current price: $16.00
In his new book, entitled WE, Lowell Jaeger turns his exacting eye on family, friends, and strangers, delving for our common humanity in the many senses of the term common as ordinary, public, and shared. The poems, though they may range across time, portray a soul community in a rough and tumble p ... Read More about