My Favorite Things Episode 24: Poet Laureate and Author Chris La Tray

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Each guest on the My Favorite Things podcast brings a list of a list of five books, movies, music, art, and other creative works that have helped shape their lives. My guest for Episode 24 is writer Chris La Tray, who was poet laureate of Montana from 2023 to 2025, and is author of three books:

Chris’s favorite things are:

1. Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words by Miya Ando

2. Heilung, LIFA Iotungard

3. Perfect Days

4. The art of John Isaiah Pepion

5. Small Island, Big Picture by Alexandra de Steiguer

Other things we talked about:

Braided Creek by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison

Anna Brones

Aaron Draplin

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galliano

Keith Haring

Paterson

Star Wars

Fellowship of the Ring