Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana’s 11th Poet Laureate, plans to travel to the state’s “far-flung areas”
November 12, 2023
Front Row Center co-host Lauren Korn speaks with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana’s 11th Poet Laureate, about being called a poet and traveling to the state’s “far-flung areas” during his two-year tenure.
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The Laureate rocks
December 31, 2023
For a guy who writes an online newsletter called “An Irritable Métis,” the Frenchtown-raised La Tray comes off as pretty affable. He dresses casually in a plaid shirt, and pulls his long hair back; his beard blazes white in the middle. He looks like he could play bass in a metal band, which he does.
Montana’s Poet Laureate Inspires Storytellers at UM
September 12, 2023
Chris La Tray was only a college freshman for a couple months before he packed up and left the University of Montana for Seattle with a buddy, inspired to depart his home state by schemes of becoming a rockstar.
It turns out fronting rock bands can be the consummate education for turning into one of the state’s most lauded writers.
Little Shell Tribal Citizen Chris La Tray Named 2023-2024 Montana Poet Laureate
August 15, 2023
Chris La Tray, a tribal citizen of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, has been named by Montana Governor Greg Gianforte for the term of 2023-2024. The announcement was made by the Montana Arts Council.
How to Be a Good Ancestor
October 11, 2021
What does it even mean, to be “a good” ancestor? I think about it all the time, especially given the world my generation is poised to leave behind. Consider the Big Picture stuff, those global challenges like pandemic and climate change and white supremacy and colonialism. I know it's standard procedure to blame the Boomers for our ecological and social messes, but I haven't seen much being done by subsequent generations to address the downward spiral either.