The Bookstore To Host Local Author Sally Cobau For Reading And Reception On December 15

DILLON, Mont. — The Bookstore will welcome local author Sally Cobau for a special reading and reception on Monday, December 15, from 5:00–7:00 p.m. Cobau will present selections from her newly released book, “Animals in the House: 18 Sonnets,” with the reading beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Cobau—an accomplished writer, teacher, mother, yoga practitioner and avid hiker—earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Montana in Missoula. Her work has been widely published in journals and anthologies including Rattler, Hole in the Head Review, Ekphrastic Review, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, Tulip Tree Review, and Poems Across the Big Sky (Volumes I and II). Her poem “Weasel in Winter in the Summer Cottage” received an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition. She has also published prose in Room Magazine, The Sun, and Oyster River Pages.

Her new collection explores the intimate spaces where memory, love, grief, whimsy, and wilderness converge. Cobau often writes about the people who shape her life—her husband, children, parents, grandparents, friends, students, and past loves—creating a shifting emotional landscape that moves between playfulness and poignancy. Even her “characters” who have passed on remain present in ghostlike ways, inhabiting the old homes and memories that fill her poems. The animals that share these spaces form a gentle counterbalance to the human world, deepening the earthy, lived-in texture of her work.

Many of Cobau’s poems are rooted in Dillon and the surrounding community, drawing inspiration from ranchers, river guides, professors, and dog lovers who bring life and character to the region.

Guests attending the December 15 event will have the opportunity to meet the author, listen to her read from her new collection, and enjoy refreshments during the reception.

Copies of “Animals in the House: 18 Sonnets” will be available for purchase, and The Bookstore encourages anyone wishing to reserve a copy to call 683-6807.