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The Poetry Show: 6/25/25: Welsh Poetry

 
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Do Not Go Gentle Into The Night
 
 
Janet focuses on modern Welsh poets: Dylan Thomas, R.S. Thomas, Gillian Clarke, Waldo Williams, ,and more. Do not go gentle......
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded June 25, 2025
Lament
by Gillian Clarke
 
For the green turtle with her pulsing burden, in search of the breeding ground. For her eggs laid in their nest of sickness. For the cormorant in his funeral silk, the veil of iridescence on the sand, the shadow on the sea. For the ocean's lap with its mortal stain. For Ahmed at the closed border. For the soldier with his uniform of fire. For the gunsmith and the armourer, the boy fusilier who joined for the company, the farmer's sons, in it for the music. For the hook-beaked turtles, the dugong and the dolphin, the whale struck dumb by the missile's thunder. For the tern, the gull and the restless wader, the long migrations and the slow dying, the veiled sun and the stink of anger. For the burnt earth and the sun put out, the scalded ocean and the blazing well. For vengeance, and the ashes of language.
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: June 23: New science fiction

The Poetry Show: Peace March in Verse

 
 
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Front Lines Poetic Testimony
 
 
Janet selects poems primarily from and about the Middle East. The featured poem is addressed to all children locked in conflict zones.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded June 18, 2025
For All Children
by Andréana Elise
 
For all children in conflict zones by Andréana Elise Dear One, I love you more than you know. In fact, my soul flies to you each night, sitting beside you as you sleep, holding your hand so you will not be afraid. Then I fly to the grown ups and tell them what I saw– their nightmares inflicted on you. I hold up a mirror and show them your face. Dear one, I see you, running free and happy playing football and swimming in the sea. I see you at school, learning and growing, clean water to drink, good food to eat. I see you, happy and at peace, in your own bodies, lands and minds. It might not feel like it, but there’s a place in this world where you belong, a place with your name. Each night, we meet in soul space– long lost friends, racing to hug and kiss each other, never leaving, never separate, ever again. I embrace you across continents, imagining you here, curled in soft blankets, drinking tea and sharing stories. Just you and me. When threats and pain are loud on all sides, come, sit with me, under this shady tree. My love is free and soft as rain.
 
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Labor Beat Radio: Two Old ’Labor-Commies’ Assess the Moment

 
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Labor Beat Radio: Two Old 'Labor-Commies' Assess the Moment
Road to Socialism starts with Solidarity
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays at 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: John Case, Scott Marshall
Description: John and Scott cheer on the socialist vision while JB is off at a solar conference. Power squared, one might hope. John wants to do a Norway on WV energy. Scott is good with becoming a Canadian province for the (more) socialized medicine.
This Episode Recorded June 17, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Paris on the Potomac: Be a Reporter for Enlighten Radio

 
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Paris on the Potomac: Be a Reporter for Enlighten Radio
Be a Tom Paine Reporter for Enlighten Radio
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
John and Karen assess the overall positive impact of the "No Kings" and Pride Day demonstrations this past week. Noting especially, the huge turnout in Shepherdstown. Noting too, the advancing Nazi outrages of the Administration and their flunkeys. Time for expanding a grass roots reporting network!! Sign UP!
This Episode Recorded June 20, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Want to End It All? Stop Here.

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Want to End It All? Stop Here.
Ghost Busters Needed: Who Ya Gonna Call When the Romans are Coming?
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
The whole End of the Road thing is Bullshit. There is no such thing as Final Defeat. Ask a loyal Nationals fan. Not those shapeshifting bean counters. Ask our "Losers Confidential" counsellor, Dr. Mike Cuccherini, for his personal injection of Pure Rock And Roll. Batter Up!
This Episode Recorded June 16, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: ”The Nationals -- They’re Young, But Hard to Beat?”

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: "The Nationals -- They're Young, But Hard to Beat?"
 
Washinton Nationals Fans -- This is NOT OUR FATE!!
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
It is hard to overstate the Shakespearean pathos in Cuccherini's devotion to staying positive about one's ass getting kicked. Maybe Predator 3 needs to take over management of the Nationals. If we are going to lose, why not return to savagery? James takess us straight to the Ring, where fate awaits.
This Episode Recorded June 9, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: A Wandering Aengus

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And pluck till time and times are done...
 
 
Janet features Irish poetry -- surely the most verdant, lyrical and lush poetry of the modern era.
But I am biased!
WB Yeats, Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon top the selections for today.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded June 11, 2025
The Song of Wandering Aengus
by William Butler Yeats
 
I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout. When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossom in her hair Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air. Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. Source: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
 
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