The Great Falls Public Library invites the public to not only hear poets perform their work at the Library, but also learn how to write and perform their own pieces, too, no matter if you’re an absolute beginner or an experienced poet.
The Library welcomes Kaisa Edy and Michael Foster to a free Poetry Workshop on Tuesday, April 7 from 6:30 to 8 pm in the Cordingley Room. Edy and Foster will help participants hone their craft and explore poetry techniques used for spoken-word or written poetry. Participants will receive notebooks and pens from the Great Falls Public Library to write their poetry on at the workshop.
Then, on Thursday, April 9, also from 6:30 to 8 pm in the Cordingley Room, poet Sally Cobau will lead an Open Mic Night at the Library, where participants can read their pieces that they either wrote and workshopped on Tuesday, or re-read pieces they’ve penned before.
Kaisa Edy leads a poetry workshop on April 7 with Michael Foster. Kaisa Edy holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers in Poetry and is currently the Poetry Outreach Coordinator for the Montana Arts Council. Her experience spans editing, education, and literary consulting: working as a fellow for The Frost Place Seminar, poetry reader for New England Review, teaching for the Hope Equals Art Residency in Palestine and Israel, judging Montana’s Poetry Out Loud competitions, and serving as a freelance reader for Drumlummon Institute. Her poems have appeared in Salt Hill Journal, JuJuBes, and The Volta.
Michael Foster leads a poetry workshop with Kaisa Edy on April 7 at the Library. Michael Foster was born and raised in California. He served 21 years in the United States Air Force. He has lived in ten states, and four foreign countries, including England and Italy. He has kissed the Blarney Stone, climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa, been to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, and served a noncombatant tour in Vietnam. He is a published poet, with one book, Violin Memories. Currently, he has a poem every Wednesday in the Great Falls Gazette. He enjoys working on his family genealogy. He is married, a father and grandfather, and lives in Great Falls, Montana.
Sally Cobau leads a poetry open mic night on Thursday, April 9Sally Cobau grew up in Ohio and went to Northwestern University, where she started as an acting major, but eventually ended up as an English major. After living in California and Connecticut, she went back to school in Montana and earned her MFA in poetry at the University of Montana. While a student there, she worked as a poet-in-the schools for two middle schools. This led to writing residencies throughout Montana, Idaho, and South Dakota (mostly in rural areas).
After teaching community college in Lincoln, Nebraska, she moved to Dillon. Her work has appeared in The Sun, Room, LitRag, The Teachers and Writer’s Guide to William Carlos Williams, and most recently in Poems Across the Big Sky II: An Anthology of Montana Poets. She likes both confessional and language poetry.
For more information, contact Jake Sorich at js*****@***************ry.org or 406-453-0349 ex. 220.
By Jake Sorich, Great Falls Public Library: March 30, 2026 – Great Falls, Mt
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