Montana Names New Poet Laureate

In an awards ceremony on September 25, 2025 Governor Gianforte named Allen Morris Jones of Bozeman to serve as Montana's Poet Laureate for 2025–2027. Jones carries on the poet laureate baton from Métis poet and storyteller Chris La Tray. In anticipation of Jones' service, John Knight, the Interim Executive Director of Humanities Montana, announced at the end of November that in January, the organization would launch its next Montana Poet Laureate Program.

Despite experiencing what Knight describes as "an unexpected termination in Congressionally appropriated federal funding from the National E...