In support of Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals, I’ll be setting out on a series of regional tours giving readings and signings. From Montana to the southwest, from the midwest to the west coast, I won’t quit until I’ve hit a hundred highways. The Montana leg started a few yards off Highway 89 as it comes through downtown Livingston, at my bookstore, Elk River Books.
Below is a listing of past and upcoming events which will keep expanding until the count hits 100. Plus there’s this cool map:
Click a pin on the map to see where I’ve been and where I’m going, and to visit the wonderful venues who support the tour. Blue pins are upcoming events and red pins are past events.
Here’s each leg of the tour, with links to blog entries of the highways traveled:
Thursday, Sept. 3; 7 pm – Book release party at Elk River Books, Livingston, MT
#1: U.S. Route 89
Tuesday, Sept. 8; 7 pm – Imagine Butte Resource Center, Butte, MT
#2 – #4: 10W, I-90 & Route 191
Thursday, Sept. 10, 5:30 pm – Shakespeare & Co., Montana Book Festival, Missoula, MT
#5, #6: Route 12 & MT 1
Tuesday, Sept. 29; 7 pm – Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, MT
#7: MT Highway 86
Friday, Oct. 2; 7 pm – High Plains BookFest, Billings, MT
#8: MT Highway 3
Saturday, Oct. 10; 7 pm – Cassiopeia Books, Great Falls, MT
#9, #10: U.S. 87 & MT 208
Thursday, Oct. 29; 7 pm – Ken Sanders Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT
#11 – #19: MT 2, U.S. 287, MT 87, U.S. 20, U.S. 91, U.S. 30, ID 34, I-15 & I-84
Wednesday, Dec. 23; 8:30pm – Bradley’s Bistro, Saginaw, MI
#20, #21: MT S-205 & M-13
Monday, Jan. 4 – Miss Bertie’s Community Library, Hopkins Village, Belize
#22 – #25: Northern, Western, Hummingbird & Southern Highways
Monday, March 7; 7 pm – Kings English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, UT
#26 – #34: I-90, MT-84, US-191, US-20, I-15, MT-41, MT-287, MT-55 & MT-2
Wednesday, April 13; 7 pm – Fact & Fiction Bookstore, Missoula, MT
#35, 36: I-90 & U.S. 12
Thursday, April 14, 6 pm – The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID
#37 – #41: US 93, MT 200, MT S471, NF9 & I-90
Saturday, April 16; 1 pm – Get Lit! Festival, Spokane, WA. Duo reading and book signing with Julie Riddle
#42, #43: I-90 & US 2
Thursday, July 21; 7 pm — Bookbound, Ann Arbor, MI
#44 – #47: M-25, I-75, I-23 & M-14
Friday, July 22; 8 pm — Bemo’s Bar, Bay City, MI
with special guests the Northwoods Improvisers and Todd Berner & Alyssa Diaz
#48, #49: M-13 & M-84
Friday, August 26; 7:30 pm — Bedrock Books, Helena, MT
#50 – #52: US 287, US 12 & MT 284
Wednesday, October 26; 7 pm — Creek & River Writers Night at Pine Creek, Livingston MT
#53, #54: US 89 & Hwy 540
Tuesday, April 25; 7 pm — Cassiopeia Books with Greg Klyma, Great Falls, MT
#55 – #58: US 89, US 12, MT 200 & MT 3
Friday, September 1; 5:30 pm — Purple Tree Books, Cheboygan, MI
#59 – #64: I-75, M-33, M-72, M-32, M-68 & M-27
Tuesday, September 5; 7 pm — Superior Poetry Cafe, Bayliss Public Library, Sault Ste. Marie, MI
#65, #66: US-23 & I-75
Saturday, September 9; 7 pm — Theodore Roethke House, Saginaw, MI
#67 – #76: H-58, M-28, M-94, US-2, US-23, M-13, M-247, M-84, M-81 & M-46
Wednesday, September 27; 5:30 pm — Rehoboth Beach Public Library, Rehoboth Beach, DE
#77 – #95: I-95, I-76, NJ-42, NJ-41, NJ-47, CR-658, CR-655, CR-634, CR-654, CR-555, CR-557, NJ-40, NJ-50, US-9, NJ-109, CR-606, CR-626, DE-162, DE-1
The week of November 20; TBA — An unspecified cliff along the Coastal Highway overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Big Sur, CA
#96 – #100: CA-87, CA-85, US-101, CA-156 & CA-1
To learn more about the book and for ordering info., click Vagabond Song.
Marc Beaudin 