ON THE B E ACH: POEMS 2016-2021

Deeply moving, and deeply felt, On the Beach stands with the finest poetry and nature writing ever produced in the Treasure State.

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Brady Harrison, author of The Term Between: Stories

I wish this poet was sitting at my kitchen table, wise-cracking and spinning tales. His eyes and his heart are wide open. His intellect, both electric and electrifying, strikes lightning poem by poem. He’s humorous, humble, humane. At the height of his artistry, this poet winks and claims he’s “ever more certain of what I don’t know.”

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Lowell Jaeger, Montana Poet Laureate 2017-2019

Always in search of the solution to the mystery of himself and the relentlessly interesting cast of characters he tends to come across, Alan Weltzien throws his poems into the abyss and in so doing, staves off the inevitable long enough to make us ponder what we’re doing, wonder who we are, and why we do what we do.

– Aaron Parrett,

author of Maple & Lead: Stories

O. ALAN WELTZIEN, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Montana Western, retired in May 2020, closing out 40 years of full-time teaching. Weltzien has published ten books and four chapbooks, including The Norman Maclean Reader (University of Chicago Press, 2008); Savage West: The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage (University of Nevada Press); A Father and an Island (Lewis- Clark Press, 2008); and Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes (University of Nebraska Press, 2016).

Sky Changes

On the Kuskokwim

SKY CHANGES On the Kuskokwim

a novel by Clifton Bates