Spoken Words
20 EpisodesProduced by Wyoming Public Media
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, and more writing from the West or writing about the West from around the world.
All Episodes
Spoken Words 29: Dale Dunn—The Big Heartless
December 18th, 2018
15:16
The Big Heartless tackles the intersection of humans and wolves, family and freedom, in a remote corner of the Mountain West. The play premiered in …
Spoken Words 28: Cate Cabot— Uncharted: A Journey Along The Edge Of Time And Survival
December 5th, 2018
12:19
Uncharted: A Journey Along the Edge of Time and Survival traces the evolution of Cate Cabot’s life in the aftermath of a hitchhike that nearly cost …
Spoken Words 27: Katrina Carrasco—The Best Bad Things
November 20th, 2018
11:37
Feminist, queer, fun, The Best Bad Things is an historical crime novel whose main character, Alma, is an ex-detective who goes undercover to infiltrate a Port Townsend, WA smuggling ring. But what she’s really up to …
Spoken Words 26: Adrian Shirk—And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy
October 16th, 2018
13:39
This new hybrid-memoir explores the lives and stories of American women prophets and mystics, outliers and outcasts of the American religious story. Through this personal journey, Adrian Shirk discovers new alternatives …
Spoken Words 25: Alyson Hagy—Scribe
September 18th, 2018
12:10
Alyson Hagy’s new novel Scribe is about the power—and dangers—of storytelling. Amid a population decimated by civil war and disease that relies on a …
Spoken Words 24: John Hausdoerffer—Wildness: Relations Of People And Place
August 21st, 2018
14:44
In Wildness , John Hausdoerffer and his co-editor Gavin Van Horn bring together authors from a variety of landscapes, cultures, and backgrounds to …
Spoken Words 23: Kevin Powers—A Shout In The Ruins
July 20th, 2018
14:36
In his new novel A Short in the Ruins , Kevin Powers explores the dark history of slavery in this country, using one plantation near his home in …
Spoken Words 22: Sara Dant—Losing Eden: An Environmental History Of The American West
June 21st, 2018
12:41
Sara Dant grew up in the American West and deeply loves its culture, history, and landscape. In Losing Eden , she traces the environmental history …
Spoken Words 21: Jeffrey Lockwood—Murder On The Fly
May 29th, 2018
15:14
Jeffrey Lockwood continues his “Riley the Exterminator” mystery series, this time as Riley tries to solve a missing person case at the same time …
Spoken Words 20: Diane Les Becquets — Breaking Wild
April 17th, 2018
14:49
In times of trauma and sorrow, Diane Les Becquets turned to the wilderness for solace. Now, as an award-winning author, she sets her books back in …
Spoken Words 19: Joe Wilkins — When We Were Birds
March 13th, 2018
15:54
In his memoir The Mountain and the Fathers , Joe Wilkins reckoned with loss, poverty, and the landscape of his childhood in the Big Dry of eastern Montana. Now a father, Joe Wilkins’s poems in When We Were Birds attend …
Spoken Words 18: Jenny Forrester — Narrow River, Wide Sky
February 6th, 2018
10:02
The rugged, rural, conservative town of Mancos, Colorado was a hard place for Jenny Forrester to grow up. Her new memoir is the story of the …
Spoken Words 17: Sean Prentiss – Finding Abbey
January 24th, 2018
14:57
When author and anarchist Edward Abbey died in 1989, his friends buried his body in a secret location in the desert southwest. More than twenty years later, Sean Prentiss goes looking for that grave and ends up finding …
Spoken Words 16: Robert Moor – On Trails
January 8th, 2018
11:05
Robert Moor set out to write about his personal experience hiking the Appalachian Trail. What he finished with was On Trails, an exploration of the …
Spoken Words 15: Dan Flores – Coyote America
December 13th, 2017
12:33
When the coyote howls, Dan Flores says we are hearing the original national anthem. Coyote America is the biography of an animal more than five million years in the making on this continent, and one that’s thrived …
Spoken Words 14: Tom Johnson – What Those Light Years Carry
November 30th, 2017
14:53
Tom Johnson is a respected professional. He’s the Chief Performance Officer of the Wyoming Business Council, he has a wife and two children, he was …
Spoken Words 13: JJ Anselmi - Heavy: A Memoir Of Wyoming, BMX, Drugs, And Heavy F***ing Music
November 14th, 2017
8:05
JJ Anselmi ’s memoir is a gritty tale of growing up in a railroad town defined by coal, oil, and a sketchy history. Anselmi talks to us about what a place like Rock Springs can do to a teenage identity, and what it …
Spoken Words 12: Marlin Holmes
November 1st, 2017
12:28
The difference between poetry and slam poetry is vibrant and apparent in this interview with University of Wyoming PhD student, Marlin Holmes. Taking …
Spoken Words 11: Janine Shepherd - Defiant
October 17th, 2017
12:49
While training for the Olympics, Janine Shepherd suffered a devastating accident. In Defiant , she depicts the nightmare that followed the accident …
Spoken Words 10: Shannon Baker - Stripped Bare
October 3rd, 2017
10:48
Reliving her years of living in the Nebraska sand hills, Shannon Baker discusses the splendor of the land and how it inspired the perfect setting for her new mystery Stripped Bare. Even with murder playing the main …
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