Upcoming Events

Author Talk by Abe Streep '04 about Brothers on Three

7:30 PM

Award-winning journalist Abe Streep (‘04) will be in conversation with esteemed sports writer, Alexander Wolff to discuss his first book, Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana (Celadon Books, 2021). The book follows the boys basketball team from Arlee High School as they defend their state championship. Streep reports on the place of basketball in the lives of members of the Flathead Reservation’s Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

The Weight of History: A Poetry Reading and Talk by Tracy K. Smith

4:30 PM

Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and U.S. Poet Laureate (2017-2019). Her Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection Life on Mars (2012) was also voted a New York Times Notable Book, and the New Yorker, Library Journal, and Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year. She has won numerous awards and recognition for her other work, including the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets for her second book, entitled Duende, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, for her fourth book’s examination of the contradictions tied up in America’s history.

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

Open to the Public

The Scott A. Margolin ’99 Lecture in Environmental Affairs

7:00 PM

The 2023 Scott A. Margolin ‘99 Lecture in Environmental Affairs presents Elizabeth Rush, author of The Quickening: On Motherhood and Antarctica in the Twenty First Century and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

On Rising Together: Collective and creative responses to the climate crisis

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

Open to the Public