During this program, Montana's current Poet Laureate talks about riding buses around the state to talk with students and teachers about writing poetry. She also reads a few of the poems those trips inspired.

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Sheryl Noethe founded the Missoula Writing Collaborative in 1994, where she is both Artistic Director and writer-in-residence. She is co-author of the teaching text Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Writing Poetry in School and in the Community, now in its third printing.

A recipient of a Montana Arts Council Fellowship, Noethe also has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the CutBank Hugo Prize in Poetry, the Emerging Voices Award from New Rivers Press, a McKnight Prize for Literature, and an American Academy of Poetry Award, as well as an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. She is a recipient of a 2004 Cultural Achievement Award from the Missoula Cultural Council for her work in Missoula schools.

Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, and she has published three collections of poetry: The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake (New Rivers Press, 1984); The Ghost Openings (Grace Court Press, 2000), which won a Northwest Publisher's Best Book Award; and her latest collection, As Is (Lost Horse Press, 2009).

Visit Sheryl Noethe's Poet Laureate Web page.

You'll find Sheryl Noethe's collection of poems As Is and Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Writing Poetry in School and in the Community at Fact & Fiction in Missoula, or at your local independent bookseller.

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

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Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Lisa Simon, David Moore, Barbara Theroux, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by Humanities Montana, connecting kids to community, supporting vital cultural institutions, and encouraging community conversations. And by Montana's Cultural Trust, Fact & Fiction book stores, and Public Radio Listeners.

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Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.