Open Book Club presents Chris La Tray April 10

SEELEY LAKE – Join Chris La Tray and the Open Book Club via Zoom Saturday night at 7 p.m. as La Tray reads his amusing poetry from his collection of life in Montana titled "One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World At Large."

La Tray is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians and lives near Missoula. "One-Sentence Journal," La Tray's first book, won the 2018 Montana Book Award, 2019 High Plains Book Award for best first book and was a finalist for the 2019 High Plains Book Award for the best book by an indigenous writer.

"This is a sunrise book, a book of revelations, of creekwalks and roadfood and ordinary sadnesses, ordinary joys-which are, in the end, the only kind. 'I have a stake in this,' La Tray writes. And so do you. So do you," wrote reviewer Joe Wilkins, author of "The Mountain and the Fathers, When We Were Birds" and "Notes from the Journey Westward."

Another reviewer and fellow author Ana Maria Spagna wrote on goodreads.com "Chris La Tray's One-Sentence Journal is a celebration of words and the way even very few words, in the right hands, can capture the wonder in every single day."

This is a free virtual event. Registration is required. Visit https://www.alpineartisans.org/open-book-club to register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.