Welcome to The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the western United States. Our guest today is poet Prageeta Sharma from Missoula, Montana.
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Sharma is the author of Bliss to Fill (Subpress Collective, 2000), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004. Winner of the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize) and Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007).
Sharma’s poems and writing have appeared in Art Asia Pacific, Bomb, Boston Review, Fence, Indiana Review, The Literary Review, Vanitas, Women’s Review of Books and other journals.
Sharma is an Associate Professor, and Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana in Missoula.
Forrest Gander writes about Prageeta Sharma in the "Poet's Sampler" section of The Boston Review. Three of her poems are also here.
A review of "The Open Question" on Verse magazine's Blog.
Five poems by Prageeta Sharma on La Petite Zine.
FYI: Information About New Books By Regional Authors
Recently published books by regional writers include, Recently published books include, A Taste of Wyoming: Favorite Recipes from the Cowboy State, by Pamela Sinclair from Worland, Wyoming.
And new from Knopf Books, Wallace Stegner and the American West, by Philip L. Fradkin.
For more information about new books by regional authors, contact your favorite bookseller or library.
And here's a line from a poem by Prageeta Sharma: "We poets are ear-shaped like harps."
The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.
Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.
Special thanks to Barbara Theroux, Prageeta Sharma, Renée McGrath, and Kim Anderson.
This program is supported in part by The Greater Montana Foundation — encouraging communication on issues, trends, and values of importance to Montanans. And by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans.
This program included music by Brian Kopper, Michael Blessing and Springhill.
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