Sanger-Stewart Memorial Reading

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Gabriel Furshong is a father, writer, and teacher from Helena, Montana. A correspondent for Montana Quarterly, he also reports on politics for The Nation, High Country News, and other magazines. His poetry and nonfiction can be found at Westerly, Tahoma Review, PRISM International, and elsewhere. His poetry collection Around the Country a Chasm was a finalist for the 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition.

Melissa Kwasny is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, University of Washington Press) and the forthcoming The Cloud Path (Milkweed Editions, 2024), as well as a collection of essays Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision. Her first full length nonfiction book, Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear, explores the cultural, labor, and environmental histories of clothing materials provided by animals. She is also the editor of two anthologies: I…