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The Write Question is a weekly literary program hosted by Lauren Korn that features authors from the American West—and beyond—including James Lee Burke, Kate Lebo, Anne Helen Petersen, Robert Wrigley,... more
FAQs about The Write Question:How many episodes does The Write Question have?The podcast currently has 379 episodes available.
April 04, 2023National Poetry Month: Ada Limón reads “Forsythia”This April, Montana Public Radio is celebrating National Poetry Month by airing readings by poets featured on ‘The Write Question.’ Here: U. S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, reading “Forsythia.”...more3minPlay
March 24, 2023“We need science that moves us”: ‘Writing Wild’ with Kathryn Aalto, the extended conversationIn early March, a mini episode with writer, instructor, and landscape designer and historian Kathryn Aalto aired on MTPR. This week, we return to women nature writers: this is the full, extended conversation with Kathryn, author of ‘Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World.’...more29minPlay
March 17, 2023‘The Write Angle’: Lauren joins Justin Angle in a conversation with Christopher Preston, author of ‘Tenacious Beasts’This week, TWQ host Lauren Korn joins ‘A New Angle’ host Justin Angle in his podcast studio for a conversation with environmental philosopher Christopher Preston, author of ‘Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals.’...more57minPlay
March 10, 2023‘I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive’: Lynn Melnick’s very own “sad banger”This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with poet Lynn Melnick about her debut memoir, ‘I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton’ (University of Texas Press)....more29minPlay
March 04, 2023TWQ Mini with Kathryn Aalto: The lives, literature, and landscapes of twenty-five female nature writersIn this TWQ mini episode, host Lauren Korn speaks with writer, instructor, and landscape designer and historian Kathryn Aalto, author of ‘Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World.’...more13minPlay
March 03, 2023David Quammen’s ‘Breathless’ spotlights the scientists and researchers in “the race to defeat” COVID-19This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with David Quammen, author of ‘Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus’—an in-depth, scientific look at the coronavirus pandemic that swept, and still sweeping, the globe....more29minPlay
February 24, 2023‘Iguana Iguana’: Caylin Capra-Thomas’s recursive, prismatic selvesThis week on ‘The Write Question,’ University of Montana alumna and poet Caylin Capra-Thomas chats with host Lauren Korn about her debut collection, ‘Iguana Iguana.’...more29minPlay
February 17, 2023What do women want? Co-editors Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters collect women’s desires in new anthologyHost Lauren Korn speaks with Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, the co-editors of ‘Wanting: Women Writing About Desire,’ an anthology of essays that explores desire, its ever-changing shape—and from multiple lenses of womanhood....more29minPlay
February 10, 2023‘When We Were Sisters’: Fatimah Asghar on monsters, boundaries, and creativityThis week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Fatimah Asghar, author of ‘When We Were Sisters,’ a novel that traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another....more29minPlay
February 03, 2023‘On a Benediction of Wind’: The quiet nature of Charles Finn’s poetryThis 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....more29minPlay
FAQs about The Write Question:How many episodes does The Write Question have?The podcast currently has 379 episodes available.