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Sunday, March 31, 2024

The Poetry Show: The Wind

 

 Enlighten Radio Presents

 

Searching for Calliope -- Mother of Muses

 

 

"Make me Invisible, like the Wind", South Wind especially.

Poems by Carl Sandburg, David Weissmann, Mike White, Octavio Paz, the Bob

Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: John Case

This Episode Recorded March 13, 2924

The South Winds Say So

by Carl Sandburg


IF the oriole calls like last year
when the south wind sings in the oats,
if the leaves climb and climb on a bean pole
saying over a song learnt from the south wind,
if the crickets send up the same old lessons
found when the south wind keeps on coming,
we will get by, we will keep on coming,
we will get by, we will come along,
we will fix our hearts over,
the south wind says so.

 

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Winners and Losers: ”The will to do bad things” LIVES in Mississippi

 

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Winners and Losers: "The will to do bad things" LIVES in Mississippi

The Bob: To the Mother of Muses: Give me Calliope?

 

Winners and Losers:

 

Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: John Case

 

The Bob, from Rough and Rowdy

John's take on the Trump catastrophe. The arrest of Mississippi Rankin County Sherriff's officers on charges of torture, rape, corruption -- and that'Thes not the bottom.

This Episode Recorded March 22, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Saturday, March 30, 2024

Labor Beat Radio: Liberal Billionaires don’t think their wealth should be taxed

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Liberal Billionaires don't think their wealth should be taxed

After a year of strikes, and a season of political division and dysfunction -- the youth are rising!

 

Labor Beat Radio: Liberal Billionaires don't think their wealth should be taxed

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall

Description: John, Scott and JB discuss the pros (mostly) and cons of recent WV AFL-CIO candidate interviews in the Eastern Panhandle. Promising young candidates -- very tough challenges.

This Episode Recorded March 19, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Turd Sandwich Café: ISIS Joining Your Dinner Party?

 

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The Turd Sandwich Café: ISIS Joining Your Dinner Party?

Bullshit is among the Tastiest of Turds: Prepare Thyself.

 

The Turd Sandwich Café:  ISIS Joining Your Dinner Party?

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case

The roundup in basketball, a sirloin steak, descends steeply to those nasty Shitburger rumors about gambling in baseball. Pretty soon ISIS is contributing to what you thought was a charitable event.... Check out our menu at the Café before you can be sure nothing worse will happen for the rest of the day.

This Episode Recorded March 25, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: The Cherry Blossom

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Be patient -- you have an ancient beauty.

 

Cherry Blossom

 

A venture into ancient Haiku, David Waggoner, AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, A.E. Houseman, and Toi Derricotte, searching for the perfect blossom.

Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM Eastern Time

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded March 27, 2024

Cherry Blossoms

 

by Toi Derricotte

I went down to
mingle my breath
with the breath
of the cherry blossoms.
There were photographers:
Mothers arranging their
children against
gnarled old trees;
a couple, hugging,
asks a passerby
to snap them
like that,
so that their love
will always be caught
between two friendships:
ours & the friendship
of the cherry trees.
Oh Cherry,
why can’t my poems
be as beautiful?
A young woman in a fur-trimmed
coat sets a card table
with linens, candles,
a picnic basket & wine.
A father tips
a boy's wheelchair back
so he can gaze
up at a branched
heaven.
All around us
the blossoms
flurry down
whispering,
                        Be patient
                                 you have an ancient beauty.
         

                                              Be patient,
                                                            you have an ancient beauty.

 


via the Poetry Foundation

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Running Progressive in a Red District


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Labor Beat Radio: Running Progressive in a Red District

Troy Miller Raises Labor Hopes in a Red District

 

Labor Beat Radio: Running Progressive in a Red District

 

Broadcasts Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern Time on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall

Guests: Troy Miller






Description: A local race for the West Virginia House of Delegates (District 98) demonstrates important solidarity principles at stake as political divides widen.

This Episode Recorded March 26, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Winners and Losers: West Virginia: the promise, and the challenge.

 

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Winners and Losers: West Virginia: the promise, and the challenge.

Blessed?, or Cursed?

 

Winners and Losers: West Virginia: the promise, and the challenge.

 

Broadcast LLIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Karen and John take note of the great promise reflected in youthful candidates for state elected offices. Add to that: Where is the wealth that can be taxed to uplift West Virginia?

This Episode Recorded March 29, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Winners and Losers: The Return of John Brown

 

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The Spirits of Revolution?

The Return of John Brown

If 'John Brown' returned, what would it mean?

 

Winners and Losers: The Return of John Brown

 

Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: John Case, Karen Valentine

 

Special Guest: Playwriter Gene Bruskin

Gene Bruskin, poet, playwriter, and labor activist, joins us to preview a new musical play,  Can you hang the same man twice? A performance of the play will take place May 4th and May 5th; 1PM at the Kennedy Farm, 2406 Chestnut Grove Rd, Sharpsburg, MD 21782. The Kennedy Farm is a national historic site, marking the headquarters of John Browns fabled, failed, but prophetic raid in 1859.

This Episode Recorded March 29, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Labor Beat Radio: Public Workers on the Front Lines in West Virginia

 

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Labor Beat Radio: Public Workers on the Front Lines in West Virginia

West Virginia Public Workers Confront

the ALEC labor - hating Agenda

 

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall

 

Guests: Christopher Wolford, President of WVPW170.

Description: Christopher Wolford, President of the West Virginia Public Workers Union (WVPW.org) joins the discussion as the state legislature's super majority is doing everything possible to weaken the voice of public workers - the ones who actually serve the public.

This Episode Recorded March 5, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

The Poetry Show: Welcome Spring! Both the Good and the Bad.

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"We like March, his shoes are purple-"

 

Welcome March, Come In

 

Poets Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Amy Lowell, William Wordsworth and others deliver odes to Spring, March, the Moon.

Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org


Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded March 6, 2024


This Week's Poem

Welcome March, Come In

by Emily Dickinson

 

Dear March-Come in
How glad I am-
I hoped for you before-
Put down your Hat-
You must have walked-
How out of Breath you are-
Dear March, how are you, and the Rest-
Did you leave Nature well-
Oh March, Come right upstairs with me-
I have so much to tell-
I got your Letter, and the Birds-
The Maples never knew that you were coming-
I declare - how Red their Faces grew-
But March, forgive me-
And all those Hills you left for me to Hue-
There was no Purple suitable-
You took it all with you-


Who knocks? That April-
Lock the Door-
I will not be pursued-
He stayed away a Year to call
When I am occupied-
But trifles look so trivial
As soon as you have come

 
That blame is just as dear as Praise
And Praise as mere as Blame-

 

 

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

The Turd Sandwich Café: The Supreme Court Breakfast of ChampionsIgnore t

 

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The Turd Sandwich Café: The Supreme Court Breakfast of Champions

Ignore the Breakfast, if you will: Focus on the Women Heroes of Sport

 


 

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case


The Supreme Court has ruled that if you elect a shit sandwich -- you have to eat it.

 

The Turd Sandwich Café: The Supreme Court Breakfast of ChampionsIgnore t

 

 

This Episode Recorded March 4, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Friday, March 1, 2024

Winners and Losers: Zach Shrewsbury for US Senate

 

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Winners and Losers: Zach Shrewsbury for US Senate

in the Democratic Primary

 

 

Bringing it All Home -- from the Bottom Up

 

Winners and Losers:  Zach Shrewsbury for US Senate

 

Fridays, 7:30ish AM Eastern

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

Special Guest: Zachary Shrewsbury

Zachary Shrewsbury, a veteran, activist and working class candidate for the US Senate from West Virginia

This Episode Recorded March 1, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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