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‘On a Benediction of Wind’: The quiet nature of Charles Finn’s poetry
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with poet Charles Finn about his collaborative collection, ‘On a Benediction of Wind: Poems and Photographs from the American West,’ a collection of free verse and prose poems, paired with a black-and-white landscape photographs from the Pacific Northwest and the American Southwest taken by photographer Barbara Michelman.
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Jessica Johns spotlights treaty relationships in her debut novel, ‘Bad Cree’
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Cree (nehiyaw) novelist Jessica Johns, author of ‘Bad Cree,’ the story of Mackenzie, a young Cree woman who returns, night after night in her dreams, to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family's lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt.
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Chrysti the Wordsmith is “impassioned,” “joyful,” and “satisfied”
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ we’re airing a September 2022 conversation with word-lover Chrysti Smith, known to many throughout Montana and in the region as “Chrysti the Wordmsith.” This conversation was recorded live at the Missoula Public Library as part of the Montana Book Festival in 2022.
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Encore: ‘Little Pharma’: Laura Kolbe’s negative capability
This week, we revisit Lauren’s conversation with physician and writer Laura Kolbe, author of ‘Little Pharma’ (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), a book that uses poetry as the doctor’s tool into empathy, into the interior lives of patients and beyond the material relationships between bodies.
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Encore: Tensions in the new West with Maxim Loskutoff
In twelve interconnected stories, collected in ‘Come West and See,’ Loskutoff’s fiction offers startling insights into America, its wounds and perpetual conflicts.
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Encore: Imagining generous, Black futures with Hanif Abdurraqib
How and when do you divest yourself from an artist? What does it mean that we were all born under a different moon? This week, we revisit Lauren Korn’s conversation with poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib.
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Encore: Carmen Giménez Smith talks poetry, politics, and feminism
This week during ‘The Write Question,’ we return to Cherie’s 2017 conversation with Carmen Giménez Smith, a politically aware and feminist-oriented poet, who focuses on general cultural references rather than a sentimental personal narrative in her poetry.
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‘How to Tell a Story’ with Senior Director and co-host of ‘The Moth Radio Hour’ Meg Bowles
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren chats with the Senior Director and co-host of ‘The Moth Radio Hour,’ Meg Bowles. Bowles was one of five co-authors of ‘How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth’ (Crown Publishing Group).
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‘Intimacies, Received’: Taneum Bambrick’s ‘Vantage’ point—on privilege, intimacy, and survival
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn and poet Taneum Bambrick talk about ‘Vantage’ and ‘Intimacies, Received,’ Bambrick’s two collections.
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“I don’t go looking for miracles”: James Lee Burke reflects on the events that inspired ‘Every Cloak Rolled in Blood’
Lauren Korn chats with prolific author of the American West James Lee Burke about his latest novel, ‘Every Cloak Rolled in Blood.’
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