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The Poetry show: April Is The Cruelist Month

 
 
Enlighten Radio Presents
Seize the Time!
April poems golden, April cloudy, Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy -- some of the many Aprils we thought we knew and the few we could not bear to lose.
Broadcast Wednesdays, 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded April 1, 2026
Let Me Begin Again
by Major Jackson
Let me begin again as a quiet thought in the shape of a shell slowly examined by a brown child on a beach at dawn straining to see their future. Let me begin this time knowing the drumming in my dreams is me inheriting the earth, is morning lighting up the rivers. Let me burn my vanities: old music in the pines, sifters of scotch, a day moon like a signature of night. This time, let me circle the island of my fears only once then live like a raging waterfall and grow a magnificent mustache. Let me not ever be the birdcage or the serrated blade or the empty season. Dear Glacier, Dear Sea of Stars, Dear Leopards disintegrating at the outer limits of our greed; soon we will encounter you only in motivational tweets. Reader, I should have married you sooner. This time, let me not sleep like the prophet who believes he’s seen infinity. Let me run at break-neck speeds toward sceneries of doubt. I have no more dress rehearsals to attend. Look closer: I am licking my lips.
 
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The Poetry Show: Spring Arrives

 
 
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It is the 152nd Birthday of Robert Frost.
 
It is a season of Fire, Rain and Skunk Cabbage.
mary oliver, emily dickinson, william carlos williams, gillian clarke, robert frost, ww, dh lawrence
 
Robert Frost
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;I'll only stop to rake the leaves away(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calfThat's standing by the mother. It's so young,It totters when she licks it with her tongue.I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded March 26, 2025
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: This Shit Has No Bottom

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: This Shit Has No Bottom
To Hell in a Handbasket
 
 
Thursdays 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
Mike, John and James depart from the sports, entertainment, and recovery culture discussions to take account of the horror show into which this country is being daily transformed.
This Episode Recorded 3/25/2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Women’s Soccer Blowout Ed.

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Women's Soccer Blowout Ed.
Big League Women's Soccer Champs!
 
 
Thursdays, 10 AM on www.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
Mia Hamm (Two-time World Cup & Olympic Champion) "I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion".
This Episode Recorded Mar 18 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Trades and Recruits

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Trades and Recruits
And pluck till time and times are done...
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Thursdays, 10 AM
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
Are there more lawyers than players in  pro sports?
This Episode Recorded 3/12/2006 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Last Stop Cafe: When a Bat is a Weapon

 
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Last Stop Cafe: When a Bat is a Weapon
Rough Play!
 
 
Thursdays, 10 AM
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
After the game is over, and the bodies are removed from the arenas and grounds. The lions are satiated. The children who failed to go to bed on time have all been devoured. Play Ball!
This Episode Recorded March 3, 2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Last Stop Cafe: The Eisenhower Show 2/5

 
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Last Stop Cafe: The Eisenhower Show 2/5
Bombs Away
 
 
Broadcast LIVE hursdays 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: James Boyd, Mike Cuccherini, John Case
At the conclusion of WW2 Eisenhower visited the Nazi concentration camp, over 80 years ago now. This is what he repotedly said: “Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
This Episode Recorded Feb 5, 2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: Safe Harbors

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Unexpected Poetics -- Seeking, and Finding Safe Harbor
 
 
Poets Dinah Hawken, Tracy K Smith, Ralph Williams, Don Hynes visit the peace of harbors.This poem by David Gregory, Reading the Bar/Whakatane Harbour, like the sea, does not encourage adjectives.
 
Reading the BarWhakatane Harbour
 
Such a liquid languagelisping between the headlandswith a slight disturbance of syntaxover the rocks, fresh and salt;the river knuckling under.
Read the slurred waves.Air as brailleagainst the skin, hair;always more episodes of driftwood.An interrogation of gullsdemand their livingoff the backs of water.
The sea is notcontained by adjectives– sullen, playful, unforgiving –the insult of ignorancehas a sure response.
A woman stands aloneliterate in grief.
 
David GregoryBased on a True Story, Sudden Valley Press, 2024
 
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