When: Friday, July 24, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Where: Open AIR, The Blue House: 300 Evans Ave
Cost: Free
Join us at the Open AIR Blue House for an artist presentation and conversation with Open AIR's Summer Artist-in-Residence at the Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation, Addie Palin. All are welcome! Snacks will be provided. Let us know if you'll be joining us with the optional registration form.
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Addie Palin received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana, where she was the Richard Hugo Scholar. After fifteen years in the Chicago advertising community, she returned to western Montana, where she continues her work in that field.
Currently informed by the rural valley in which she lives, her writing attempts to blur the boundaries between human and other—the urgency of animals, the change of hands, and the shifting of seasons on lands that retain—to varying degrees—their wildness. While in part a commentary on the tension between humans and their environments, she uses this blurring primarily to describe relationships between people: love, disappointment, desire, neglect. Her poems value complex emotional landscapes over clear interpretation, with the intent to evoke specific feelings rather than deliver logical conclusions. Her first manuscript was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, the Colorado Prize, and the National Poetry Series, among others.