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Tamara Linse & Judy Blunt

courtesy of the University of Montana

Tamara Linse - "a writer, cogitator, recovering cowgirl" - grew up on a Wyoming ranch where adult women told dumb blonde jokes. Linse's book of short stories is called How To Be A Man. "They thought of themselves," she writes of the ranch women, "as profoundly set apart, a sort of third gender - not quite a man but definitely not a woman. I know this because I was one of these women, and it took years of writing and university classes to recognize this as a particularly virulent form of self-hatred."  The young girl in Judy Blunt's poem, "Lessons in Physics," waits out a thunderstorm, wondering if doing so will violate her rancher father's unwritten rules.

(Broadcast: "Reflections West," 10/28/14 & 10/29/14. Listen Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. or Wednesdays, 3:54 p.m.)

Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.
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