Drumlummon Institute Publishes New Issue of Drumlummon Views

Drumlummon Institute, the Montana cultural nonprofit, has launched the third issue of Drumlummon Views, its online journal of Montana arts and culture (www.drumlummon.org).

Helena, MT (PRWEB) April 10, 2007 -- Drumlummon Institute, the Montana cultural nonprofit, has launched the third issue of Drumlummon Views, its online journal of Montana arts and culture (http://www.drumlummon.org).

According to Rick Newby, the journal's editor-in-chief, "With this issue, we continue our commitment to covering the myriad expressions of Montana arts and culture with in-depth essays, portfolios of original work in the literary, visual, and media arts, reviews, and moving memorials to mark the passing of leading Montana culture-bearers."

Newby continues, "As with our first (double) issue, our range is wide, stretching from health care to emerging local food traditions, from jazz confluences to regional architectural expressions, from an analysis of the state's environmental literature to a meditation on the writings of coal miner/poet Joseph Meagher of Roundup."

The new issue of Drumlummon Views showcases fiction by Caroline Patterson and Tom Thackeray, portfolios by painter Gordon McConnell and photographer J. M. Cooper, and work by the two poets--Lowell Jaeger of Bigfork and Roger Dunsmore of Dillon--who, together with Sandra Alcosser, were finalists for the position of Montana's first Poet Laureate.

The journal's art section features appreciations of Bill Stockton, the late, great modernist sheep rancher/painter of Grass Range, and an essay on the distinctive work of Sandra Dal Poggetto by Pulitzer-winning biographer and critic Mark Stevens. In the journal's "Travels & Translations," Emmy-winning journalist Clay Scott meditates on notions of "home," traversing the terrain between Montana and Lebanon. The DV "From the Archives" section continues to serialize the memoir of Ada Melville Shaw, a single woman who homesteaded alone near Billings in 1915.

Newby concludes, "Whether it is Canadian writer Robert Bringhurst striving to understand his coming to consciousness on the banks of Montana's trout streams or architectural theorist Lori Ryker exploring notions of 'Learning Montana, Evolving Place,' the artists and thinkers in this issue offer us a marvelously rich mosaic (to use a key metaphor employed by the late Montana historian Dave Walter, honored in this issue)."

To reach DV, go to the Drumlummon Institute home page, http://www.drumlummon.org and click on Drumlummon Views.

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