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What do you get when you flood your body with the field recordings of recently extinct animals? This week during The Write Question, CAConrad, author of ‘AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration,’ talks with Lauren about their writing processes: the (soma)tic poetry rituals that result in poetry that shimmers, surprises, and sears.

This week, Lauren speaks with memoirist Danielle Geller, whose memoir, ‘Dog Flowers,’ is a book not only about her relationship to her late mother, absent for so much of her childhood, but about the strength and complexity of familial ties.

This week on The Write Question, Lauren talks with poet and memoirist Victoria Chang, author Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. The two explore the “a-synchronicity” of feelings and how silence can be used to both hide and protect.

The new year means different things to different people. To Montana Public Radio’s literary program and podcast ‘The Write Question,’ it means a makeover for their logo!

In this special Sunday episode of The Write Question, our team gathers some of their favorite moments from 2021. Featuring excerpts from conversations with Caroline Patterson, Raymond Antrobus, Kerri Arsenault, Anthony W. Wood, and Stephen Graham Jones.

This week during The Write Question, Lauren talks with cultural critic Anne Helen Petersen, co-author, alongside Charlie Warzel, of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home, who re-imagines a future wherein our work lives are no longer our entire lives.

This week on The Write Question, Lauren talks with Bozeman, Montana-based essayist Amy Leach about her modern bestiary, The Everybody Ensemble, in which she brings together a cacophony of voices—of the many, many animals that populate our world.

This week during The Write Question, Idaho-based poet and essayist Robert Wrigley talks to trees. (And to Lauren! About the difference between poetry and prose, about fatherhood, about music, and more!)

Olivia Sears is the mother of two daughters and a board operator and dejee at Montana Public Radio. She also writes children's book reviews for The Write Question blog.

This week on  The Write Question, it’s a Lauren takeover! Host Lauren Korn chats with debut novelist Lauren Oyler during a conversation that centers social media: identity performance, vulnerability, feelings like pain, envy, and jealousy, and what it would mean to give up their own social media accounts. About Lauren Oyler: Lauren Oyler is a writer based in New York and Berlin; she was born and raised in West Virginia. Her essays on books and culture have appeared in  The New Yorker, the ...