Eight women will share personal nonfiction stories tonight in an event called “A Reading of Her Own,” starting at 7 p.m. at MoAv Coffee, 2501 Montana Ave. (more…) Continue Reading →
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Artists, poets team up for ‘living room’ show
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Most writers and visual artists, in one way or another, have a way of inviting you inside their minds. This Friday in Billings, several artists and writers are inviting you inside their living rooms. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Billings, Culture, Diversions, 2905, Anna Paige, Ashley Warren, Bozeman Poetry Collective, Kelly Mullins
New partnerships expand, enliven poetry slam
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The High Plains Grand Slam, a competitive poetry-reading event, just keeps getting bigger and better. This year’s slam, set for Thursday, Oct. 6, at the MoAv Coffee House, 2501 Montana Ave., will be the first one officially registered with Poetry Slam Inc., a nationwide organization, and it will feature a $250 prize for the slam champion. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, Anna Paige, High Plains BookFest, High Plains Grand Slam, James Dean Hickman, MoAv Coffee House, Nate Petterson, Pete Tolton
A fine portrait of arts patron Corby Skinner
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Corby Skinner, who has probably done as much to promote the arts and culture as anybody in the history of Billings, is the subject of a justly laudatory article in the new issue of Big Sky Journal. Written by Stella Fong, with photographs by Anna Paige (both of them contributors to Last Best News), the article paints a well-rounded portrait of Skinner. Here’s the gist of it:
“He helped raise the curtains at the landmark Alberta Bair Theater in Billings, gave writers a venue with the Writer’s Voice, and honored authors through the High Plains BookFest and High Plains Book Awards. For his efforts in these various arenas of arts, he received the 2009 Governor’s Humanities Award. These days he is promoting the nascent music venue Tippet Rise in Fishtail, Montana.” Continue Reading →
Filed under: Last Best Blog, Anna Paige, Big Sky Journal, Corby Skinner, Stella Fong, Steve Corning
More artists following muse down independent road
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When I pitched my new novel, “Edward Unspooled,” to the publishing house with which I’ve been in business for five books, I was struck by a profound difference in our focus. I’d followed passion and emotion—that fire to get up every day and dive into the manuscript, maybe the only thing that makes the enterprise bearable. Here it is, I’d said. I wrote my whole heart into this thing. My publisher talked about the numbers. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, Anna Paige, Craig Lancaster, David Crisp, Ed Kemmick, Jon Clinch, Patrick Wilson
Friday reading kicks off celebration of poetry, Pulitzers
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A reading of works by Pulitzer Prize-winning poets on Friday kicks off the All Spring Pulitzer Campfire, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize. Anna Paige, a Billings poetry slam-winning poet who co-hosts Friday night’s event, said the celebration is funded in part by a grant from Humanities Montana. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, Anna Paige, Montana Humanities, MSU Billings, Peter Tolton, Pulitzer Prize
Rough-and-tumble poetry slam set for next week
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At the fifth annual Billings Grand Slam poetry event next week, you can expect to encounter high sentiments, lovely words — and fierce competition. “People are there to see the blood sport,” said James Hickman, one of the organizers of the slam. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Billings, Culture, Anna Paige, Billings Grand Slam, Corby Skinner, Dave Caserio, High Plains BookFest, James Hickman
More photos from the Montana Folk Festival
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Just in case you didn’t have enough photos from the Montana Folk Festival in Butte this weekend, here’s another collection of shots, these from Anna Paige, a Billings photographer and freelance writer. Some are of the musicians and some are of people taking in the music, busking and walking the streets of Butte. Continue Reading →
