About the Author
Former Montana Poet Laureate and current faculty of Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann School of Writing, Greg Pape has received the Discovery/TheNation Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, the Richard Hugo Memorial Poetry Award, the Pushcart Prize, and others. The poems in A Field of First Things are evocations of experience, attempts to clarify, preserve, and share first things.