08/17/2026
"One of Haaland’s many gifts as a writer is to reveal the beauty within the ephemeral nature of existence. The details of everyday life are often easy to overlook. Sometimes we hardly know ourselves. Her work can show us how to listen, to look closely. We begin to better know our own self and, like the mountain ash in the final poem, it 'seems to / glow from within.'"
Tami Haaland's IF I HAD SAID BEAUTY reviewed in Big Sky Journal! 🤩 Tami Haaland
“I hardly know myself / and this has always been true,” says the speaker in the poem “Evening Song.” Former Montana Poet Laureate Tami Haaland’s new collection of poetry, If I Had Said Beauty (Lost Horse Press, $20), is a deep and thoughtful investigation into...
