In His New Book, Pomeranian, Montana Embraces The Mundane

I met Montana two years ago when we were both pretty new to the poetry scene. We were always at the same readings, eager. The mutual admiration was at first sight and after multiple failed attempts to “get lunch”, we became best friends. He stood out to me. This tall pretty gay guy in otherwise dykey scenes, reading shit that was really different from everyone else. He’d read these grotesque, whimsical, fantastical poems and fables in a sort of cartoonish vocal fry.

Montana’s always defied the dry, self-serious affect you’ve come to accept (and, to be fair, sometimes like) from poetry readings - he entertains. As time flies, Montana’s become a respected staple overnight, hosting his monthly reading series Vile Beasts and bopping around at different readings, on different line-ups. He also writes Byline’s monthly column The Stink! His debut collection of poems, Pomeranian, is the amalgamation of all that. Pomeranian comes out October 25th through dirt child press, with a consummatory launch party at KGB’s Red Room at 7:30pm. It is available for preorder now.