Mark Gibbons: Love, War, & Madness

Poet and teacher Mark Gibbons is the guest this week on The Write Question. He'll read poems from Love, War, & Madness and talk about his life as a blue-collar working man with three college degrees.

Hear Mark Gibbons during The Write Question, Thursday evening, February 18, at 7:30 P.M. on Montana Public Radio. Or click through to the Montana Public Radio Web site to listen online.

Robert Boswell: The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

This week on The Write Question, producer Chérie Newman talks with Robert Boswell, author of six novels, three short story collections, and a book about writing fiction: The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction.

Tune in to Montana Public Radio Thursday, February 11 at 7:30 P.M. Or click through to the Montana Public Radio Web site to listen to the program online.

Timothy Egan: The Big Burn

This week's guest on The Write Question is Timothy Egan, a Pulizter Prize-winning reporter who writes a weekly column for the New York Times. He's also the author of five nonfiction books, two of which have won National Book Awards.

His latest book, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, tells the story of America's worst forest fire, which happened near Missoula, Montana, in 1910. And Teddy Roosevelt's triumphant struggle to save our forests from greedy robber barons like William A. Clark and J.D. Rockefeller.

Tune in to Montana Public Radio Thursday, February 4, at 7:30 P.M. to hear Timothy Egan on The Write Question. Or click here to listen online.

Tami Haaland: Breath In Every Room

This week on The Write Question, Chérie Newman talks with poet Tami Haaland. Breath In Every Room, Haaland's first collection, won the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award. During the program, Haaland reads from that collection, as well as some new poems.

In addition to working as a poet, Haaland is an associate professor of English and director of the Honors Program at Montana State University Billings. And, she co-edits Stone’s Throw Magazine.

Hear Tami Haaland on Montana Public Radio Thursday evening at 7:30. Or listen online, anytime.

Joe Hutto: The Light In High Places

Once again, Joe Hutto has written a book that allows us to experience an environment we don't normally have access to. This time it's Bighorn Sheep habitat high in the Wind River Mountain range of Wyoming.

In the mid-90s, Hutto published Illumination in the Flatwoods, his observations and reflections about raising a brood of motherless turkeys. The writing in his new book, The Light In High Places: A Naturalist Looks at Wyoming Wilderness, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Cowboys, and Other Rare Species, traverses the wide sweep of landscapes and emotions Hutto experienced during many years of gathering information for The Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep Study. He also backtracks to tell a few stories about his early years in Wyoming, when snow was deep and bear encounters were frequent.

The Light In High Places combines intimate wildlife observations with intimate personal observations. And those observations shine a bright light on the disturbing environmental devastation that is occurring far, far away from the cause: our consumption-crazed urban behaviors.

The Write Question talks with Humanities Montana

In a recent interview with Humanities Montana, producer Chérie Newman talked about the objectives and challenges of expanding the program to thirty minutes. She also answered questions about the music she uses in the program, how she prepares for author interviews, and what qualities she appreciates in Montana writers.

Read the entire interview at the Humanities Montana Web site.

Samuel Ligon

This week on The Write Question, Samuel Ligon, author of Drift and Swerve and Safe In Heaven Dead, talks about writing and teaching. He also reads from his books and expresses a few opinions about MFA programs.

Tune in to hear The Write Question on Montana Public Radio at 7:30 P.M., Thursday, January 21. Or listen online.