Reading Wyoming: Minority Experience in America: Sheridan
Tuesday, April 20, 7:00 p.m., Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library
Katie Curtiss leads the discussions.

Reading Wyoming: Crime and the Cultural Landscape: Kemmerer
Tuesday, April 20, 7:00 p.m., Lincoln County Library
The books in this series – mysteries – provide readers with the opportunity to examine the beliefs and mores of different communities and eras.  Discussion leader: Katie Beppler.

Indie Film: Casper
Tuesday, April 20, 6:30 p.m., Natrona County Library
The Drummer – Mandarin and Cantonese with English subtitles (Hong Kong/Taiwan/Germany)
Sid, the rebellious son of Kwan, a savage Hong Kong triad boss, escapes to Taiwan upon enraging his father’s adversary, a powerful underground business leader. Hiding out in the mountains, Sid encounters a group of Zen drummers. Their mesmerizing art, rigorous training, and austere way of life pique the hostile young man’s interest and he asks to join the group. Although Sid despises his father, he is turning out to be a younger version of him: wild and defiant. Immersion in the world of the Zen drummers gradually converts him into a focused young man. Sid’s independence from the triad life and his father is profoundly challenged, however, when a twist of fate forces him to choose between loyalty to his family and his newfound faith in himself.

Family Night: Meet Author Pam Flowers: Casper
Wednesday, April 21, 6:30 p.m., Natrona County Public Library
Pam Flowers was in her 40s when she decided to quit her job to mush dogs across the arctic. She believes you’re never too young to have a dream and never too old to fulfill it.  Pam will share slides and stories from her solo 2,500-mile dog mushing expedition across the arctic from Barrow, Alaska to Repulse Bay, Canada.

Reading Wyoming: Rural in America: Cheyenne
Wednesday, April 21, 6:30 p.m., Wyoming State Museum
All of the books in this discussion series offer both romantic and realistic views of rural life.  Rose Wagner leads the discussions.

Humanities Forum: Wyoming, The Energy State: Laramie
Wednesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., UW Classroom Building, Room 310
In this presentation, Duane Keown explores the history of energy development in Wyoming and looks to the future of Wyoming’s energy economy.

Humanities Forum: Heart Mountain Relocation Center: Hulett
Thursday, April 22, 7:00 p.m., Hulett Branch Library
This presentation by Ladonna Zall explores the human experience of Japanese and Japanese-Americans during their incarceration at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II.  Zall will also discuss the Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation and its plans.

Humanities Forum: Pronghorn Passage: Saratoga
Thursday, April 22, 7:00 p.m., Saratoga Public Library
Emilene Ostlind and Joe Riis tell their story of walking the 150-mile migration corridor of the pronghorn antelope to document one of the world’s greatest long-distance animal migrations.

What’s News: Special Guest Promotes Open Government: Jackson
Thursday, April 22, 12:00-1:30 p.m., Teton County Public Library
The Wyoming Press Association and Wyoming Coalition for Open Government offer a free, public workshop to explain how state laws guarantee public oversight of state government. Wyoming Press Association Director Jim Angell delves into the Wyoming Open Meetings and Public Documents acts.

Undergraduate Reading: Laramie
Thursday, April 22, 7:00 p.m., Carriage House- 1408 Ivinson Ave.
The Undergraduate Creative Writing Program will present the final evening of student readings.  This event is free and open to all.

Classic Conversations: Cheyenne
Friday, April 23, 12:00 p.m., Laramie County Library
Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra Conductor William Intriligator will talk about the upcoming performance, “Symphony & Opera In-Concert” featuring music from the event.  You bring the lunch; we provide the entertainment.

Humanities Forum: Loveliness to Sell: Basin
Friday, April 23, 7:00 p.m., Basin Arts Center
Dorene Ludwig presents powerful and entertaining readings from the works of women poets of the United States, from Colonial times to present day.

Humanities Forum: Heart Mountain Relocation Center: Sundance
Friday, April 23, 7:00 p.m., Crook County Library
This presentation by Ladonna Zall explores the human experience of Japanese and Japanese-Americans during their incarceration at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II.  Zall will also discuss the Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation and its plans.

Humanities Forum: Happily Ever Aftering on a 1920s Cattle Ranch: Kaycee
Saturday, April 24, 7:00 p.m., Kaycee Branch Library
When bestselling Wyoming novelist Caroline Lockhart decided to retire to her very own homestead, she set in motion a conflict: the happy endings of her romantic fictions and the realities of a single woman running a drought-ridden ranch. Presented by John Clayton.

Brad Watson: Aliens Among Us reading and book signing: Laramie
Sunday, April 25, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Albany County Library
In prose so perfectly pitched as to suggest some celestial harmony, he writes about every kind of domestic discord: unruly or distant children, alienated spouses, domestic abuse, loneliness, death, divorce. In his masterful title novella, a freshly married teenaged couple are visited by an unusual pair of inmates from a nearby insane asylum—and find out exactly how mismatched they really are.”

Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection Preview: Cody
Now on View at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Eighteen beautiful objects from the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection are now on view in the Plains Indian Museum Land of Many Gifts Gallery. This is the second round of objects from the collection, totaling over 2,000 artifacts, to be displayed.

Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008: Laramie
January 30- May 8, UW Art Museum
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 2008 is a small retrospective that features signature works and conveys how the artist has considered and resolved various approaches to integrating video into temporal and spatial experiences.

MFA Student Reading
Monday, March 29, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Katie Schmid, poetry
Stephanie Dugger, poetry
Sara Daniels, fiction
Kelly Herbison, nonfiction
Second Story Books, 105 Ivinson, Laramie

Reading Wyoming: Community and the Western Landscape: Worland
Monday, March 29, 7:00 p.m.
A reading and discussion series that explores the West’s diverse areas and history, facilitated by James Mims.
Washakie County Library, Worland

Humanities Forum: Stories, Songs and Sodbusters: Dubois
Tuesday, March 30, 7:00 p.m.
When settlers came west, they sang of hope, adventure and Eden on the plains.  They wised up quickly, and soon their songs featured alkali, snakes and stampedes.  Presentation by Bill Rossiter.
Headwaters Community Arts and Conference Center, Dubois

Humanities Forum: Why We Took Our Off Our Corsets: Rock Springs
Wednesday, March 31, 7:00 p.m.
In this presentation Melanie O’Hara looks at East Coast women who traveled West, settled, and in the process, declared their independence from undergarments that impeded their new-found freedoms.
White Mountain Library, Rock Springs

Humanities Forum: Stories, Songs and Sodbusters: Lyman
Thursday, April 1, 6:30 p.m.
When settlers came west, they sang of hope, adventure and Eden on the plains.  They wised up quickly, and soon their songs featured alkali, snakes and stampedes.  Presented by Bill Rossiter.
Lyman Town Hall, upstairs, Lyman

Latinos in Beisbol
Thursday, April 1, 5:00 p.m.
The UW Chicano Studies Program hosts Adrian Burgos, Jr., author of Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos and the Color Line to open the exhibit “From Sugar Beet Fields to Fields of Dreams,” curated by Gabriel and Jody Lopez of Greeley, Colorado, in this celebration of Hispanic contributions to baseball.
Door prizes, including a gift certificate for two tickets donated by the Colorado Rockies!
University of Wyoming Union Ballroom, Laramie

Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archives
Now on View
These 68 images are highlights from the digital collections of Jack Richard, Charles Belden and the Buffalo Bill Online Archives. The photographers Richard and Belden each captured moments of energy and action in their respective genres. Richard, a photographer from Cody, worked in the Yellowstone area from the 1940s to the 1980s, where his crisp, superbly composed images captured the Western way of life. Belden’s images were taken in the 1920s and 1930s on the legendary Pitchfork Ranch at the base of the spectacular Absaroka Mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming. By photographing cowboys and cattle against this spectacular backdrop, he created some of the classic images of the American West.
The historic photographs taken from the Buffalo Bill Online Archive show the changing face of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) from young man living and working on the frontier to Wild West entrepreneur to aging businessman. Cody has been call one of the most photographed figures of the 19th and early 20th century – and the Buffalo Bill Archive is indeed proof to that claim.
Buffalo Bill Cody Historical Center, Cody

Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection Preview
Now on View
Eighteen beautiful objects from the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection are now on view in the Plains Indian Museum Land of Many Gifts Gallery. This is the second round of objects from the collection, totaling over 2,000 artifacts, to be displayed.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody

Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
January 30- May 8
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 2008 is a small retrospective that features signature works and conveys how the artist has considered and resolved various approaches to integrating video into temporal and spatial experiences.
UW Art Museum, Laramie

Book Discussion

Genealogy Class: Intermediate
Wednesday, March 10, 7:00 p.m.
Laramie County Library, Cottonwood Room, Cheyenne

School’s Out Movie
Wednesday, March 10, 2:00 p.m.
School’s out, so students are invited to a screening of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs at the library.
Natrona County Public Library, Casper

Canine Companions: Newcastle
Wednesday, March 10, 7:00 p.m.
A reading discussion series of memoirs about the relationship between man and dog, facilitated by Phyl Sundstrom.
Weston County Library, Newcastle

MFA Student Reading
Wednesday, March 10, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Estella Soto, fiction
Adam Million, poetry
Lori Howe, poetry
Second Story Books, Laramie

Undergraduate Reading
Thursday, March 11, 7:00 p.m.
Students will read from works of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. This event is free and open to all. Look for more readings as the semester progresses!
Cooper Carriage House, Laramie

“Thursday Thrillers” Frankenstein Film Series
Thursday, March 11, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
This week’s film will be Frankenweenie.
Albany County Library, Laramie

Iran Uncovered with Robert Dreyfuss
Friday, March 12, 7:00 p.m.
Join investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss for an eyewitness account of the 2009 Iranian election and its aftermath and to hear about interviews he conducted with key Iranian decision-makers and analysts. Dreyfuss will discuss: Does Washington have an alternative to negotiations? Will sanctions work? Is a military confrontation inevitable?  Dreyfuss has written extensively about the post-9/11 war on terror, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the confrontation with Iran. He covered the Iranian elections for The Nation and is currently writing about this month’s Iraqi elections on his blog The Dreyfuss Report at www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss. Dreyfuss also covers national security for Rolling Stone and writes frequently for Mother Jones and The American Prospect, as well as many other publications. His book, Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, was published in 2005. Read more about Dreyfuss’ background and find articles at www.robertdreyfuss.com.  Dreyfuss spoke about Afghanistan to an enthusiastic crowd at the library last fall. “We are thrilled to have Bob back at the library, he is extremely knowledgeable as well as a very personable and engaging presenter,” said Oona Doherty, Adult Humanities Coordinator.
Teton County Library, Ordway Auditorium, Jackson

Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archives
Now on View
These 68 images are highlights from the digital collections of Jack Richard, Charles Belden and the Buffalo Bill Online Archives. The photographers Richard and Belden each captured moments of energy and action in their respective genres. Richard, a photographer from Cody, worked in the Yellowstone area from the 1940s to the 1980s, where his crisp, superbly composed images captured the Western way of life. Belden’s images were taken in the 1920s and 1930s on the legendary Pitchfork Ranch at the base of the spectacular Absaroka Mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming. By photographing cowboys and cattle against this spectacular backdrop, he created some of the classic images of the American West.
The historic photographs taken from the Buffalo Bill Online Archive show the changing face of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) from young man living and working on the frontier to Wild West entrepreneur to aging businessman. Cody has been call one of the most photographed figures of the 19th and early 20th century – and the Buffalo Bill Archive is indeed proof to that claim.
Buffalo Bill Cody Historical Center, Cody

Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection Preview
Now on View
Eighteen beautiful objects from the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection are now on view in the Plains Indian Museum Land of Many Gifts Gallery. This is the second round of objects from the collection, totaling over 2,000 artifacts, to be displayed.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody

Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
January 30- May 8
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 2008 is a small retrospective that features signature works and conveys how the artist has considered and resolved various approaches to integrating video into temporal and spatial experiences.
UW Art Museum, Laramie

Independent Film Series

Book Discussion Group
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30- 8:30 pm
Book discussion group
Uinta County Library, Evanston

Reading Wyoming: Canine Companions, Laramie
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 pm
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod, by Gary Paulsen
Albany County Library, Laramie

Reading Wyoming: Minority Experience in America, Sheridan
Tuesday, February 16, 7:00 p.m.
Katie Curtiss leads the discussions.
Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library, Sheridan

Reading Wyoming: Rural in America, Cheyenne
Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 p.m.
All of the books in this discussion series offer both romantic and realistic views of rural life.  Rose Wagner leads the discussions.
Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne

Reading Wyoming: Living Between Fences, Basin
Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 p.m.
The books in this reaading and discussion series consider fences and divisions both in their visible form on the landscape and as metaphors for the barriers that separate us.  Claire Dunne leads the discussions.
Big Horn County Library, Basin

Reading Wyoming: Community and the Western Landscape, Casper
Thursday, February 18, 6:30 p.m.
A reading and discussion series that explores the West’s diverse areas and history, facilitated by Nicole Bryant.
Fort Caspar Museum, Casper

What’s News: Jackson
Thursday, February 18, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Bring a lunch and join us from noon to 1:30 at the Teton County Library, tracking print and online news with local editors and occasional visiting editors, journalists, and scholars.
Teton County Library, Jackson

Humanities Forum: Pronghorn Passage
Thursday, February 18, noon
Emilene Ostlind tells the story of walking the 150-mile migration corridor of the pronghorn antelope to document one of hte world’s greatest long-distance animal migrations.
Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, Grand Teton National Park

Edward P. Jones Reading
Thursday, February 18, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Join us for a reading and conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones.  The reading is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a book signing sponsored by the University of Wyoming Bookstore.  A variety of his books are now available at the UW Bookstore for 25% off. Don’t delay, get your copy today!
Wyoming Union, Yellowstone Ballroom, Laramie

Yak!
Thursday, February 18, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Featured film will be Weird Science.
Albany County Library, Laramie

Frankenstein Film Series
Thursday, February 18, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
The featured film will be Young Frankenstein.
Albany County Library, Laramie

Popular Fantasy Author Talks ‘Imagination’
Thursday, February 18, 6:30-8 p.m.
Teton County Library presents award-winning young adult and children’s author Brandon Mull, writer of the best-selling Fablehaven series, for a talk and book-signing.  Mull will talk about the writing process and how he engages his imagination to create fantastical characters in his stories. He encourages students to strengthen their imagination through reading and writing during his “Imagination Can Take You Places” tour, which has reached more than 215,000 elementary school students to date.
Colter School Cafeteria, 1855 High School Road

Humanities Forum: Aama’s Journey, Big Piney
Friday, February 19, 7:00 p.m.
In 1992, an 84-year-old village woman from the Himalayas with no exposure to a Western civilization made a pilgrimage to the United States. Broughton Coburn tells her story, based upon his books.
Big Piney Branch Library, Big Piney

Saturday University: Jackson
Saturday, February 20, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
One-day seminar with UW faculty members.  Free and open to the public.
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson

Author Book Signings- Alyson Hagy
Sunday, February 21, Ghosts of Wyoming- Short stories
Albany County Library, Laramie

Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archives
Now on View
These 68 images are highlights from the digital collections of Jack Richard, Charles Belden and the Buffalo Bill Online Archives. The photographers Richard and Belden each captured moments of energy and action in their respective genres. Richard, a photographer from Cody, worked in the Yellowstone area from the 1940s to the 1980s, where his crisp, superbly composed images captured the Western way of life. Belden’s images were taken in the 1920s and 1930s on the legendary Pitchfork Ranch at the base of the spectacular Absaroka Mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming. By photographing cowboys and cattle against this spectacular backdrop, he created some of the classic images of the American West.
The historic photographs taken from the Buffalo Bill Online Archive show the changing face of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) from young man living and working on the frontier to Wild West entrepreneur to aging businessman. Cody has been call one of the most photographed figures of the 19th and early 20th century – and the Buffalo Bill Archive is indeed proof to that claim.
Buffalo Bill Cody Historical Center, Cody

Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection Preview
Now on View
Eighteen beautiful objects from the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection are now on view in the Plains Indian Museum Land of Many Gifts Gallery. This is the second round of objects from the collection, totaling over 2,000 artifacts, to be displayed.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody

Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
January 30- May 8
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 2008 is a small retrospective that features signature works and conveys how the artist has considered and resolved various approaches to integrating video into temporal and spatial experiences.
UW Art Museum, Laramie

Faces of Addiction: Casper
Monday, November 9, 5:30 PM
Join us for light supper or refreshments and a four-part film discussion series.
Natrona County Public Library, Casper

Reading Wyoming: Laramie
Tuesday, November 10, 2:00-3:30 PM
Books that Endure series
Eppson Center for Seniors, Laramie

Family Pizza & Movie Night
Tuesday, November 10, 6:30 PM
The featured film will be A League of Their Own, and it will be shown in preparation for a new exhibit from the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Natrona County Public Library, Casper

Native American Heritage Month
Tuesday, November 10, 7:00 PM
Featured Film: PBS documentary, We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes.  This first episode begins in New England in the 1620s, at the time of the so-called first Thanksgiving. In March of 1621, Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoag, negotiated a diplomatic alliance with a band of English settlers for the benefit of his people. For a time, the natives and colonists existed in relative peace. Fifty years later, the peace was broken and the Wampanoag were at war with the English and their native allies.
Rock Springs Library, Ferrero Room, Rock Springs

Humanities Forum: Rails and Shutters
Thursday, November 12, 7:00-8:00 PM
This presentation by Chavawn Kelley explores the role of early photographers such as A.J. Russell, William Henry Jackson, and F.J. Haynes in the development of Wyoming and the West.
Dennison Lodge, Dubois

Faces of Addiction: Torrington
Thursday, November 12, 6:30 PM
Join us for dinner and a four part film series.
Eastern Wyoming College, Torrington

Stories of the Hunt
Thursday, November 12, 7:00 PM
Laramie County Library, Cottonwood Room, Cheyenne

Pride & Passion: Opening Reception
Thursday, November 12, 6:30 PM
An opening reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. on the library’s main floor, featuring former negro-leagues player Mack A. Pride Jr. who played baseball with the Memphis Red Sox and the Kansas City Monarchs.  Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience, a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New York, and the American Library Association Public Programs Office, Chicago.
Natrona County Public Library, Casper

Author Mikaelsen visits
Thursday, November 12, 6:30-8:00 PM
Noted children’s author, Ben Mikaelsen speaks.
Park County Library, Cody

Teen Movie Night
Friday, November 13, 5:00 PM
Enjoy a pizza & movie night at the library.  A baseball movie will be featured in preparation for a new exhibit from the National Baseball Hall of Fame coming to your library this winter.
Natrona County Public Library, Casper

Faces of Addiction: Powell
Friday, November 13, 6:30 PM
Join us for refreshments and a four-part film discussion series.
Park County Library, Cody

What’s News?
Friday, November 13, 7:00-9:00 PM
Join reporters and journalists for a series of current events discussions via videoconferencing.  This session takes place in Afton, Baggs, Evanston and Laramie.  Facilitators are Renny MacKay and Katie Beppler.
Visit WHC on the web for more information about this program.
Location varies.

Ingredients Film Uncovers Delicious, Sustainable Agriculture
Friday, November 13, 6-8 PM
See how farmers and chefs are working together to bring great tasting, healthy food back to the table and raising consumer awareness about benefits of eating local. Teton County Library and Slow Food of the Tetons present an evening screening of the documentary film Ingredients: The Local Food Movement Takes Root. Ultimately, the film explores how sustainable agriculture operates and how it might run in the future. Topics such as community supported agriculture (CSA) shares are covered, as well as whether or not it would be possible to serve the entire country via local food.
Teton County Library, Jackson

Humanities Forum: My Horse, My Gun, My Library
Monday, September 28, 6:30 PM
This Humanities Forum program is presented by Lynne Swanson.
Goshen County Library, Torrington

Read Out Loud
Tuesday, September 29, 6:00 PM
Join other members of the community in celebrating the freedom to read- by reading out of your favorite banned book and discussing the freedom to read.
Carbon County Library, Rawlins

Don Delillo Reading
Tuesday, September 29, 7:30-9:00 PM
Teton County Library in the Center for the Arts, Dancers Workshop Studio 1, Jackson
Don Delillo is widely regarded as one of America’s most important novelists.  Delillo will give a traditional reading from his new book Falling Man.  Author of 15 critically acclaimed novels, including White Noise, the winner of the National Book Award in 1985, and the Underworld, which was runner-up on the New York Times survey of the best American fiction of the last 25 years.  Salman Rushdie has called him an “American master.”  Do not miss this tremendous opportunity.

Banned Book Story Time
Wednesday, September 30, 5:00 PM
Carbon County Library, Rawlins

NIC at Noon: Richard Cohen and Friends
October, 2, 12:00-1:00
This event is the museum’s informal, monthly concert series where visitors are invited to bring in their lunch and hear performances by local musicians.
Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper

Opening Reception: I Want Candy: The Sweet Stuff In American Art
Friday, October 2, 6:00 PM
Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper

Movie: Fahrenheit 451
Saturday, October 3, begins at 1:00 PM
Carbon County Library, Rawlins

Book Sale
Saturday, October 3, 9 AM-4 PM
Park County Library, Cody

Saturday University
Saturday, October 3
This series is designed to both encourage consideration of important public policy issues and to provide an opportunity to just plain have fun participating in college level discussions of interesting topics. Presented by the Wyoming Humanities Council and the University of Wyoming, with the Teton County Library and the National Museum of Wildlife Art. The schedule is as follows:
9-10:30 AM -  Jeff Lockwood, author of Six Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, will be discussing the ways insects have been used as weapons of war.
11:30-1:00 PM- Ingrid Burke, an ecosystem scientist, teaches about environmental change and what we need to know in order to avoid irreversibility.
1:30-3:00 PM – Susanna Goodin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, discusses how alchemy was once studied to unlock the secrets of nature in hopes of coming to understand the mind of God.  She will be questioning how theology, economics, culture, social trends and philosophy shape science.
3:30-4:30 PM- Roundtable Discussion  with all three presenters in an informal wrap-up discussion tying together the topics.

UW MFA Reading Series: Rebecca Curtis
Monday, August 24, 7:00-8:30 PM
Second Story Books, Laramie
Free and open to the public

Reading Wyoming: Ranchester
Monday, August 24, 7:00-8:30 PM
Tongue River Branch Library
Women of Mystery series

Northern Arapaho Experience
Tuesday, August 25; Thursday, August 27; and Saturday, August 29; 6:30-8:00 PM
Wind River Casino, Riverton

We invite you to experience Indian Country through the eyes of the Northern Arapaho People.  Celebrate our native heritage through song, dance and storytelling.

Reading Wyoming: Saratoga
Wednesday, August 26, 2:00-3:00 PM
Saratoga Public Library
Rural in America series

Reading Wyoming: Cody
Wednesday, August 26, 7:00-8:30 PM
Park County Library
Canine Companions series

Reading Wyoming: Cheyenne
Thursday, August 27, 6:30-7:30 PM
Laramie County Library
Canine Companions series

Reading Wyoming: Baggs
Friday, August 28, 3:00-4:30 PM
Baggs Public Library
Canine Companions series

This event concludes  Williams’ residency at UW. During the past year she has taught a graduate writing workshop, read student manuscripts, and directed MFA theses. She has also presented public readings throughout the state.

Williams is the author of four novels, including The Quick and the Dead, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Harold and Mildred Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her latest book, Honored Guest, is a collection of short stories. She is at work on a new novel.

The MFA graduate creative writing program mentors a new generation of writers. The Eminent Writer in Residence program, created through an endowment from the state legislature, allows the MFA program to bring extraordinary writers to campus each year to work closely with students. Next year’s Eminent Writers in Residence include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones; the distinguished poet Claudia Rankine; and the editor of The Paris Review and acclaimed nonfiction writer, Philip Gourevitch.

For more information about the reading or about the Eminent Writers program, visit the MFA Web site or contact Beth Loffreda at loffreda@uwyo.edu.