Latest Contemporarywest Podcast Episodes
Voices from the Oval
Words Out West - August 29, 2022 12:50 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we celebrate the fruits of a teacher’s labor. You’ll hear from Professor Robert Stubblefield, along with three of his University of Montana students. A selection of poems and non-fiction, with Robert Stubblefield, Jade Taylor, Donna Arganbright, and Cass Sissel. This episode...
A Place in the Sun for Butte
Words Out West - August 22, 2022 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, writer, geologist and professor Rob Thomas explains how the amazing history of rocks is related to the mining town of Butte finding its place in the sun. Selections from Roadside Geology of Montana. This episode is sponsored by Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula's i...
Why the Village Appears on No Map
Words Out West - August 15, 2022 16:19 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, novelist Claude Alick introduces us to a place of mystery in the island country of Grenada—a village that appears on no map—a place that resides only in wilting memories.
How to Write about Sex and Death and Dreams
Words Out West - August 08, 2022 10:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we pair writers who were born to be storytellers—poet Mara Panich, and singer/songwriter Margi Cates, accompanied by guitarist Nick Barr. This episode contains some adult language and themes, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
How Stealing Laundry Leads to Success
Words Out West - August 01, 2022 14:03 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, a struggling writer has a breakthrough when she accidentally steals her neighbor’s laundry. A short play written by Bozeman playwright Greg Owens, directed by Missoula’s own Reid Reimers and read by Missoula actors Hamilton Clement and Az Sacry.
Three Minds Driving
Words Out West - July 25, 2022 10:34 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, writers Chris La Tray, Fred Haefele, and Chris Autio take us on three distinct and heady road trips. Chris La Tray: Comet (poem) Three . . . Two . . . One . . . Blast off! Fred Haefele: excerpt from A Life in 12 Pickups (vehicular memoir) When a pickup truck transcends m...
I Don’t Understand Snow
Words Out West - July 19, 2022 12:04 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, singer/songwriter Spencer Kellum performs some ‘modern spirituals’ as Separate Circles, with piano accompaniment by Cole Grant.
Much More Than a Bartender
Words Out West - July 11, 2022 11:18 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, Joan Melcher finds her perfect saloon, and chats with the bartender who has the same name as his bar—Moose. A selection from her non-fiction books Watering Hole: A User’s Guide to Montana Bars and Montana Watering Holes: The Big Sky’s Best Bars.
The Glitter and The Glamour
Words Out West - July 04, 2022 05:47 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we get up close and personal with Bobby Lee Springfield, a singer/songwriter who gives us the skinny on the ups and downs of show biz. This episode contains some adult language and themes, with references to alcohol, tobacco and drugs, which may be unsuitable for some listeners...
A love affair with prison
Words Out West - June 27, 2022 20:23 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWords Out West is a literary podcast spotlighting both established and emerging writers from Montana and the western United States, along with their poems, stories, songs, radio plays and other forms of the spoken word.
In love with peace — Obliged to war
Words Out West - June 20, 2022 13:17 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe narrator in Sean Gallagher’s short story laments the damage done to his older brother after becoming a soldier — the brother who taught him, "That no one wins a fight." Morning Is My Favorite Time, short story from the podcast MT3K. This episode contains some adult themes, violence, and ...
It's All Just Noise
Words Out West - June 13, 2022 14:53 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, playwright Jay Kettering, introduces us to a couple recounting how they met, fell in love, and ultimately broke up, and let’s just say, it gets a bit noisy. This episode contains some adult language and themes, and sexual references, which may be unsuitable for some listener...
WOW S2 E04 Caroline-Patterson
Words Out West - June 06, 2022 17:57 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWords Out West is a literary podcast spotlighting both established and emerging writers from Montana and the western United States, along with their poems, stories, songs, radio plays and other forms of the spoken word.
Songs in the Key of Keys
Words Out West - May 30, 2022 15:58 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, Caroline Keys and Nate Biehl share their original songs along with poems from Caroline and her young student writers.
One Sentence At A Time
Words Out West - May 24, 2022 11:48 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsChris La Tray doesn’t need many words to tell a damn fine story. In this episode featuring Métis storyteller Chris La Tray, we celebrate words, and the way even very few words, in the right hands, can capture the wonder in every single day. (from One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays...
You Hate These Roads
Words Out West - May 16, 2022 15:28 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, novelist Richard Fifield puts us in a car going way too fast up a narrow mountain road, and that’s only the beginning of our troubles.
Love and Gunpowder
Words Out West - June 28, 2021 05:10 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this bonus episode, Words Out West’s own Jay Kettering writes about a kid who’s willing to blow up his world for love.
Who is My Dad?
Words Out West - June 14, 2021 08:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn part one of his radio play trilogy, My Dad and Pre-Socratic Thought, Jay recalls the crazy stories his father told him in an attempt to find meaning.
The Ticking Of The Clock
Words Out West - June 01, 2021 10:48 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this bonus episode, Words Out West’s own Jay Kettering looks back to a time when everything was a mystery—especially time. Jay Kettering: How I Learned To Tell Time: part 2 of his audio trilogy Notes From the Huntley Project (radio play) (Dramatic reading by Missoula actors David Mills-Lo...
A Mysterious Relationship
Words Out West - May 03, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, our season finale, Words Out West’s own Jay Kettering writes about a mysterious relationship. This episode contains some adult language and themes, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.
Personal Landscapes
Words Out West - April 26, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, Mark Gibbons, Shaun Gant and David E. Thomas explore their own personal landscapes. One ventures to where there are no fences, one observes an explosion of life in her own backyard, while another stays close to the tracks.
Fleeting Nature of Time
Words Out West - April 19, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, David Allan Cates, Sheryl Noethe and Robert Lee mull over the fleeting nature of time. One takes a nostalgic leap of faith, another explains how life never stops, while another makes a plan for when he’s a ghost.
Grab Bag
Words Out West - April 12, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we hear from Shane Wheeldon, Freya Jones and Chris Sand, three writers who are hard to put in a box. Therefore, it’s our first installment of the Grab Bag.
Searching
Words Out West - April 05, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, writers Sheryl Noethe, David E. Thomas, and Sarah Aronson are in the process of searching. One is searching for stories from strangers, another seeks magic from a natural phenomenon, while the other is tracking those who want to get to their destination in the quickest way poss...
Bold Women
Words Out West - March 29, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, writer Beth Judy documents a real life — and in this case — a real glamorous life: Myrna Loy.
Self-Reflection
Words Out West - March 22, 2021 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, writers David E. Thomas, Sarah Aronson and Mark Gibbons meditate on self-reflection. One ponders which technological time-zone he belongs in, another celebrates the things that cannot be understood, and the other uses the mirror behind the bar to reflect. This episode contain...
True Love and its Many Forms
Words Out West - March 15, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, writers Shaun Gant, Mark Gibbons and Sheryl Noethe reflect on the many forms that true love takes, like an enduring marriage, the flicker from a candle’s flame, and even a drug-induced coma. This episode contains some adult language and themes, which may be unsuitable for some...
The Nature of Love via the Love of Nature
Words Out West - March 08, 2021 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, writers Brian Laidlaw and Sarah Aronson have come to understand how the nature of love can connect to the love of nature.
Sense of Sound
Words Out West - March 01, 2021 09:54 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, writers Jay Kettering, Chris Sand and Robert Lee have tuned into their sense of sound. The sound of memory, the sound of solace, and the sound of place.
Drinking and Addiction
Words Out West - February 22, 2021 14:06 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, writers David E. Thomas, Sheryl Noethe and Mark Gibbons are talking about booze, and the effect it has from the view of a bus seat, a bar stool, and a lawn chair. This episode contains some adult language and themes, which may be unsuitable for some listeners. Listener discre...
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