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Spoken Words

Spoken Words tells the origin stories of storytelling. Produced in collaboration with the University of Wyoming MFA in Creative Writing program, the show features novelists, poets, non-fiction writers... Read more

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Spoken Words 29: Dale Dunn—The Big Heartless

Spoken Words 29: Dale Dunn—The Big Heartless

The Big Heartless tackles the intersection of humans and wolves, family and freedom, in a remote corner of the Mountain ... Read more

18 Dec 2018

15mins

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Spoken Words 28: Cate Cabot— Uncharted: A Journey Along The Edge Of Time And Survival

Spoken Words 28: Cate Cabot— Uncharted: A Journey Along The Edge Of Time And Survival

Uncharted: A Journey Along the Edge of Time and Survival traces the evolution of Cate Cabot’s life in the aftermath of a... Read more

5 Dec 2018

12mins

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Spoken Words 27: Katrina Carrasco—The Best Bad Things

Spoken Words 27: Katrina Carrasco—The Best Bad Things

Feminist, queer, fun, The Best Bad Things is an historical crime novel whose main character, Alma, is an ex-detective wh... Read more

20 Nov 2018

11mins

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Spoken Words 26: Adrian Shirk—And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy

Spoken Words 26: Adrian Shirk—And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy

This new hybrid-memoir explores the lives and stories of American women prophets and mystics, outliers and outcasts of t... Read more

16 Oct 2018

13mins

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Spoken Words 25: Alyson Hagy—Scribe

Spoken Words 25: Alyson Hagy—Scribe

Alyson Hagy’s new novel Scribe is about the power—and dangers—of storytelling. Amid a population decimated by civil war ... Read more

18 Sep 2018

12mins

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Spoken Words 24: John Hausdoerffer—Wildness: Relations Of People And Place

Spoken Words 24: John Hausdoerffer—Wildness: Relations Of People And Place

In Wildness, John Hausdoerffer and his co-editor Gavin Van Horn bring together authors from a variety of landscapes, cul... Read more

21 Aug 2018

14mins

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Spoken Words 23: Kevin Powers—A Shout In The Ruins

Spoken Words 23: Kevin Powers—A Shout In The Ruins

In his new novel A Short in the Ruins, Kevin Powers explores the dark history of slavery in this country, using one plan... Read more

20 Jul 2018

14mins

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Spoken Words 22: Sara Dant—Losing Eden: An Environmental History Of The American West

Spoken Words 22: Sara Dant—Losing Eden: An Environmental History Of The American West

Sara Dant grew up in the American West and deeply loves its culture, history, and landscape. In Losing Eden, she traces ... Read more

21 Jun 2018

12mins

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Spoken Words 21: Jeffrey Lockwood—Murder On The Fly

Spoken Words 21: Jeffrey Lockwood—Murder On The Fly

Jeffrey Lockwood continues his “Riley the Exterminator” mystery series, this time as Riley tries to solve a missing pers... Read more

29 May 2018

15mins

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Spoken Words 20: Diane Les Becquets — Breaking Wild

Spoken Words 20: Diane Les Becquets — Breaking Wild

In times of trauma and sorrow, Diane Les Becquets turned to the wilderness for solace. Now, as an award-winning author, ... Read more

17 Apr 2018

14mins

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