VAGABOND SCHEDULE

2004

January 28-February 3, 2004
Vagabond Visit to Ripon, Wisconsin
January 31, 2004
Five minute reading sometime between 3:00-4:00 p.m. during
The Marathon Fund-Raising Poetry Reading
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
February 6, 2004
Visit to West Point, Nebraska
February 7, 2004
Attending the Annual Gathering
Center for Rural Affairs
Lyons, Nebraska
February 23-28, 2004
Visit to L'Anse, Michigan
March 10, 2004
Class on small towns and small town life
Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin
March 17-24, 2004
Visit to Alexandria, MN
Monday, March 22, 2004, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
"The Idea of the Local"
Lecture and Discussion for District 206's Humanities for the Inquiring Mind Series
$3.00 registration fee
Discovery Middle School
Alexandria, MN

Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 6:00 p.m.
Vagabond Presentation
United Methodist Church
Alexandria, MN

April 15, 2004, 7:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading
Waupaca Area Public Library
107 S. Main Street
Waupaca, WI
April 18-23, 2004
Visit to Emmetsburg, IA

Thursday, April 29, 2004, 6:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading - "Featured Reader"
Poetry Night at the Neville Museum
201 Museum Place
Green Bay, WI

Sunday, May 9, 2004, 1-4:00 p.m.
"Keeping a Writer's Journal"
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Sunday, May 16, 2004, 1-4:00 p.m.
"Writing Creative Nonfiction"
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Sunday, May 23, 2004, 1-4:00 p.m.
"Writing Memoir"
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust, Milwaukee, WI 53212

Friday, June 4, 2004
Wisconsin Writers Conference
University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County
9:00 a.m. Presentation:
"Lorine's Library: The Books and Marginalia in Lorine Niedecker's Library"
10:30 a.m. Presentation:
"Understanding 'Place' Across the Middle West:
My 'Vagabond In the Middle' Project -
Methods & Preliminary Results"

June 9 or 10, 2004
Presentation on "Writing's Rituals"
to Norb Blei's writing class at
The Clearing
Ellison Bay, Wisconsin
Sunday, June 27, 2004, 7:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading
Barnes & Noble Books
7433 Mineral Point Road
Madison, Wisconsin
Monday, October 11, 2004, 7:00 p.m.
McMillan Coffee House
Alternate date
Monday, October 18, 2004, 7:00 p.m.
"The Vagabond Poet & Essayist Talks
About His Middle Western Project"
McMillan Coffee House - McMillan Library
490 E. Grand Avenue
Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Thursday & Friday, November 4 & 5, 2004
Readings & Workshops ~ Paul Zimmer and Tom Montag
Great Lakes Writers' Series
Lakeland College
Sheboygan, WI

VAGABOND SCHEDULE

2003
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Tom Montag

January 15-21, 2003
Visit to Rugby, North Dakota
January 22-26, 2003
Visit to Alexandria, Minnesota
February 2-8, 2003
Visit to Vandalia, Illinois

Monday, February 10, 2003 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Class on small towns and small town life
Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin

Friday, February 14, 2003 12:45 p.m.
Presentation on the Vagabond project
Ripon Senior Center, Ripon Wisconsin
February 24, 2003 7:00 p.m.
Presentation: "The Writing of Curlew:Home;
Telling Your Own Life Story or Family History"
Webb Public Library, Webb, Iowa

February 25-March 1, 2003
Visit to Maysville, Missouri

March 1, 2003
Discussion of Curlew:Home with a K.C.-area book club
Kansas City, MO
March 10-14, 2003
Visit to Smith Center, Kansas
March 20, 2003
Presentation on the Vagabond project
Ripon Historical Society, Ripon, Wisconsin
Thursday, April 3-4, 2003
Reading from my books and a presentation on the Vagabond project
at Bexley High School, Bexley, Ohio,
and at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio
Tuesday April 8, 2003, 7:00 p.m.
with The Wasteland Poets
Reading from my books and a presentation on the Vagabond project
at Waukesha Public Library, Waukesha, Wisconsin
April 29-May 3, 2003
Visit to West Point, Nebraska
May 5-9, 2003
Visit to Redfield, South Dakota

May 19-23, 2003
Visit to Alexandria, Minnesota
June 10-14, 2003
Visit to Vandalia, Illinois
June 15-20, 2003
Visit to Fowler, Indiana
June 25, 2003, 6:30 p.m.
Reading and Vagabond Presentation
at
Ethel Everhard Library
117 East Third Street
Westfield, Wisconsin
July 7-11, 2003
Visit to Eaton, Ohio
September 8-14, 2003
Visit to Rugby, North Dakota
September 15-21, 2003
Visit to Maysville, Missouri
October 9-11, 2003
Attending the Lorine Niedecker Centenary Celebration
in Milwaukee & Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin
See you there!
October 12, 2003, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Book Fair
Oshkosh Public Library
106 Washington Avenue, Oskosh, WI 54901
October 20-24, 2003
Visit to West Point, Nebraska
October 20, 2003, 7:00 p.m.
"Writing Family History"
Elkhorn Valley Genealogy Society
Stahl Library
West Point, Nebraska
Thursday, October 30, 2003, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
"Keeping a Writer's Journal"
Northshore Library
6800 N. Port Washington Rd.
Glendale, Wisconsin
Thursday, November 6, 2003, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
"Writing Creative Nonfiction"
Northshore Library
6800 N. Port Washington Rd.
Glendale, Wisconsin
Wednesday, November 12 , 2003, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
"Writing Memoir"
Northshore Library
6800 N. Port Washington Rd.
Glendale, Wisconsin

Thursday, November 13, 6:30 p.m.
Reading and Vagabond Presentation
Sturm Library & the River Writers group
30 N. Bridge St., Manawa, WI
November 16-21, 2003
Visit to Emmetsburg, Iowa

November 20, 2003
Algona Public Library Presentations
at the Naked Bean CoffeeHouse, 1906 Highway 18 East, Algona, Iowa
2:00 p.m.
Readings from prose: Curlew:Home, Kissing Poetry's Sister, "Vagabond," etc.
7:00 p.m.
Readings from poetry: Middle Ground, The Sweet Bite of Morning,
The Big Book of Ben Zen, etc.

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Revised: February 9, 2004