What Is This Place - A night of poetry and prose

Name: What Is This Place - A night of poetry and prose
Start: 2025-09-12T19:00:00-06:00
Location: Imagine Butte Resource Center

Schedule

Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Imagine Butte Resource Center | Butte, MT

What Is This Place?: A Night of Poetry and Prose
It's easy to become numb to the place you call home. You see the same sights, hear the same sounds, and smell the same smells, day in, day out. But what if you were seeing this place for the first time? What if you were an outsider or a traveler from a distant land? What would you notice that others miss? What mysteries are hiding in plain sight? What secrets are waiting to be uncovered? Strange and unique things surround us everyday and sometimes all we need is for someone to challenge us to take a second look. Consider this your challenge. We welcome you to produce a piece of writing about your home—be it your house, your town, your workplace, or somewhere completely different—and share it with your community at this public reading. Genre isn't important (but we suggest you aim for three to seven minutes of reading time). You can share a short story, a poem, an essay, a list, a collection of thoughts, whatever! The only ask is that, after you choose the place you're going to write about, take a moment and look at it from another angle. See if there's something you've been missing.
*Email - [email protected]* for more information, including prompts and reading suggestions. If this theme doesn't interest you, or you have something else you'd like to share, we will open the reading up to anyone and everyone, time permitting.

Hosted by Jeremy Steen is originally from Austin, Texas where he spent the better part of twenty years bartending, waiting tables, and performing in bands that some would describe as "punk rock." He left all this behind and relocated to North Carolina where he earned an MFA in Fiction from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and his writing appears in The Oxford American, New World Writing Quarterly, and The Rejoinder, among others.