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Host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, author of ‘There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension’ (Penguin Random House).

Fireweed’s vibrant flowers provide sweet nectar to native bees, flies, butterflies, and even honeybees, if their hive is nearby.

This amazing place has seen it all, from a giant sea to volcanoes and glaciers to today’s semi-arid desert.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to the first part of a two-part conversation with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025). The two discuss his memoir, ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions). This episode originally aired November 7, 2024, under the title “What kind of society do we live in where any Indigenous people can be considered ‘landless’ in the first place?”

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to the second part of her two-part conversation with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025), author of ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions).

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ we’re celebrating 50 years of children’s programming on Montana Public Radio. During this episode, host Lauren Korn speaks with critic, biographer, and historian Leonard S. Marcus, one of the world’s leading writers and scholars on children’s books and the people who create them.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Haudenosaunee poet Kenzie Allen discusses her collection ‘Cloud Missives’ (Tin House Books).

Host Lauren Korn speaks with Andrew Limbong about NPR’s 2024 interactive book list of staff favorites, “Books We Love.”

For the Sunday morning encore of ‘The Write Question,’ we return to a conversation with Alicia Elliott, an established writer of non-fiction and author of the novel ‘And Then She Fell’ (Dutton Books, 2023).