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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 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 14: Tom Johnson – What Those Light Years Carry

Spoken Words 14: Tom Johnson – What Those Light Years Carry

Tom Johnson is a respected professional. He’s the Chief Performance Officer of the Wyoming Business Council, he has a wi... Read more

30 Nov 2017

14mins

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Spoken Words 15: Dan Flores – Coyote America

Spoken Words 15: Dan Flores – Coyote America

When the coyote howls, Dan Flores says we are hearing the original national anthem. Coyote America is the biography of a... Read more

13 Dec 2017

12mins

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Spoken Words 17: Sean Prentiss – Finding Abbey

Spoken Words 17: Sean Prentiss – Finding Abbey

When author and anarchist Edward Abbey died in 1989, his friends buried his body in a secret location in the desert sout... Read more

24 Jan 2018

14mins

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Spoken Words 18: Jenny Forrester — Narrow River, Wide Sky

Spoken Words 18: Jenny Forrester — Narrow River, Wide Sky

The rugged, rural, conservative town of Mancos, Colorado was a hard place for Jenny Forrester to grow up. Her new memoir... Read more

6 Feb 2018

10mins

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Spoken Words 19: Joe Wilkins — When We Were Birds

Spoken Words 19: Joe Wilkins — When We Were Birds

In his memoir The Mountain and the Fathers, Joe Wilkins reckoned with loss, poverty, and the landscape of his childhood ... Read more

13 Mar 2018

15mins

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Spoken Words 13: JJ Anselmi - Heavy: A Memoir Of Wyoming, BMX, Drugs, And Heavy F***ing Music

Spoken Words 13: JJ Anselmi - Heavy: A Memoir Of Wyoming, BMX, Drugs, And Heavy F***ing Music

JJ Anselmi’s memoir is a gritty tale of growing up in a railroad town defined by coal, oil, and a sketchy history. Ansel... Read more

14 Nov 2017

8mins

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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 16: Robert Moor – On Trails

Spoken Words 16: Robert Moor – On Trails

Robert Moor set out to write about his personal experience hiking the Appalachian Trail. What he finished with was On Tr... Read more

8 Jan 2018

11mins

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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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