My work will appear in the upcoming anthology from Terrapin Books. “The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft focuses on the craft of poetry and is based on the belief that craft can be taught and the best teacher of craft is a good poem. This book assumes a knowledgeable reader, that is, one who already knows the language of poetry and already practices the craft.” Read more about the anthology and order it here.
Press Release for Governor's Humanities Awards 2019
MSU Billings professor to receive governor's humanities award. Tami Haaland honored for leading efforts in poetry education
MSU BILLINGS NEWS SERVICES— Montana State University Billings professor Tami Haaland has been named a recipient of a 2019 Governor’s Humanities award, presented by Humanities Montana. Haaland is a Professor of English and a director of the Elk River Writing Project.
Haaland and four other Montanans will be recognized during the Governor’s Humanities Awards Ceremony on February 7, 2019 at 3 p.m. in the State Capitol Rotunda, Helena. Honorees are Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs, Helena; Ellen Crain, Butte; Thomas McGuane, McLeod; and Elizabeth McNamer, Billings. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
“We are lucky to have such wonderful individuals across the state who ensure that Montanans have access to and engage in art, literature, and our unique cultural heritage,” said Governor Steve Bullock. “Congratulations to these awardees for devoting decades of their lives to supporting and promoting the humanities.”
This interview with Kristina Ortiz of Lunch Ticket has ten questions about my writing practice.
What’s your writing practice like?
“I write first drafts pretty quickly. I carry a notebook with me almost always, though it contains all kinds of things—notes from lectures I’ve heard, quotations I like, whatever crosses my path, and then drafts of poems. At some point I transfer poems to the computer and begin revising.
My ideal writing situation would include hours of concentrated work revising, figuring out how poems connect to each other, researching, and making notes. Realistically, that happens far less often than I would like.”
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Review by Anna Alarcon in Poetry International. Click here to read.
I was interviewed on Montana Public Radio about my book What Does Not Return. From them: it “is a rare account of the experience we have come to call, rightly, care-giving. With ritual attentiveness, in small, deeply considered gestures, in words exchanged at the altar of grief, she shows us what it might mean to honor and celebrate what is given to us and what is taken away." -- Melissa Kwasny
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Listen to this interview with KUFM Montana: During this program, Tami Haaland talks about her creative inspirations, her work at Montana's Women's Prison, and reads from her latest collection of poems: 'When We Wake in the Night' (View Full Description)
A mention of me in the LA Review of Books "How It Happens Festival” in LA Review of Books