Name: Gary Whited in Conversation wit Roger Dunsmore
Start: 2024-10-16T19:00:00-06:00
Location: 220 N Higgins Ave, Missoula, MT

Gary Whited in Conversation wit Roger Dunsmore

About Being, There: His new book, Being, There includes new poems along with his translation of the ancient Greek fragments of Parmenides from the 5th century BCE. This book dances between the poetic voice of Parmenides and the poetic remembrances of a young life on a prairie cattle ranch. His poems have appeared in journals, including Salamander, Plainsongs, The Aurorean, Atlanta Review, Comstock Review, The Wayfarer, Poetry Daily, The Red Letters and Kasparhauser.
About Gary Whited: Gary Whited is a poet, philosopher and psychotherapist. His first book titled, Having Listened, won the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Contest. In 2014 it received a Benjamin Franklin Silver Book Award, and in 2015 was translated into Russian and a bilingual edition was published.
About Roger Dunsmore: Born in1938 and raised in small farming communities in central Michigan—teen years spent in Pittsburgh where my father was a crusading public health engineer. 1956-63, university educated at Penn State (BS, in Psychology, MA. in Literature.) Taught Humanities, Wilderness Studies, and American Indian Literature, 1963-2013 at University of Montana in Missoula and Dillon. MFA in creative writing (poetry), 1971, UM, under Hugo and Defreese. Short-listed to the governor thrice for Montana Poet Laureate position. Had a couple of nominations for Pushcart Prize. Named a “Humanities Hero” by Humanities Montana in 2012. Won a Montana Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship for poems from TIGER HILL, 2001. Presently in myi 118th month of staple-gunning poems to utility poles in Coeur d’Alene, ID. Oh, and founding member and mentor of Bent Grass Poetry Troupe, 2005-11.