Poetry and Literature
Poetry and Literature
Monday Mar 27, 2023
The Poetry Show -- A Celebration of Jane Hirschfield
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
The Enlighten Radio Poetry Show
7 AM Eastern, Mondays
www.enlightenradio.org
The Envoy
BY JANE HIRSHFIELD
One day in that room, a small rat.
Two days later, a snake.
Who, seeing me enter,
whipped the long stripe of his
body under the bed,
then curled like a docile house-pet.
I don’t know how either came or left.
Later, the flashlight found nothing.
For a year I watched
as something—terror? happiness? grief?—
entered and then left my body.
Not knowing how it came in,
Not knowing how it went out.
It hung where words could not reach it.
It slept where light could not go.
Its scent was neither snake nor rat,
neither sensualist nor ascetic.
There are openings in our lives
of which we know nothing.
Through them
the belled herds travel at will,
long-legged and thirsty, covered with foreign dust.
Thursday May 21, 2020
The Enlighten Radio Poetry Show: 21 May, Plague Year
Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
Pablo Neruda, Moby Dick and Bob Dylan's Book Report in 30 minutes. Most Thursdays, 9AM on www.enlightenradio.org. And on DemocracyRoad.podbean.com
Friday Mar 09, 2018
Divas around the world for International Women's MONTH on Enlighten Radio
Friday Mar 09, 2018
Friday Mar 09, 2018
Divas around the world for International Women's MONTH on Enlighten Radio
The March 8 Moose Turd Cafe opens with Diana Krall and Friends -- DIVAS BEGINS.
Listen: podcasts.enlightenradio.org
call in, if you want to sound off: 304-885-0709
Other Items this morning:
1.Fermat's Last Theorem
2. Politics gets interesting in West Virginia
3. Short -- very short -- stories by women
4. Koans to get rolling
5. The Riddle Master set off to change the world.
Friday Mar 09, 2018
The Moose Turd Cafe -- Reviewing the Riddles, in the Church of Confusion
Friday Mar 09, 2018
Friday Mar 09, 2018
More riddle mastery from the Moose Turd Cafe -- this episode is the March 7 show broadcasted live at 7 AM on Enlightenradio.org.The Playlist:
1. WV Teachers Victory -- a Red State rebellion goes leftward.2. The Steel General -- the force of revolution through all time, and a fugue warrior to boot --- with help from Jared Bernstein -- explains the appeal, and curse, behind the Steel Tariff.3. Sick of Repetition? Queen Jane visits the Cafe.4. Socratic Humor and a Rooster and Hound Dog koan.5. The Riddle Master of Hed Meets Deth, the High Ones Harpist
Monday Mar 05, 2018
The Moose Turd Cafe Podcast -- The Gunslinger and a Horse are Thirsty
Monday Mar 05, 2018
Monday Mar 05, 2018
The Moose Turd Cafe for 5 March 2018 opens with the Gunslinger and Hughes' (Howard?) Horse on the subject of abstractions and a genetic duel with dogma.
Some Poems that can transform the daily consumption of waste into the Profound.
Watch Out for the Trump Tariffs -- and watch out for missing the political economics behind the Gaslighting.
WV Teachers AND superintendents RESIST the Republican BULLSHIT.
Further explorations into the Mystic -- The Riddle Master of Hed meets Deth, the High One's Harpist.
ALSO:
Look for drastic changes in our programming and website integration. Beginning March 8, International Women's Day: a Month of celebration of women. Till Then -- a festival of Blues, and the Dead 24-7!! Plus, the books celebrated in Dylan's Nobel address: Moby Dick, All Quiet on the Western Front, and the Odyssey. Plus War Music from the Iliad.
9 AM and Noon today: Fanny Crawford and Stas Zielkowski -- storytelling.
Tuesday @ 9:00 AM: James Boyd's Recovery Radio
Monday Nov 13, 2017
Monday Nov 13, 2017
This episode of the Poetry Show was broadcast Nov 13, 2017, 7:30 AM EST,live on EnlightenRadio.org from the Red Caboose Studio in Bolivar, West Virginia.
The show is hosted by John Case. The call-in line is 304-885-0708, and our email is host@enlightenradio.org.
Playlist
1. Bob Dylan's Nobel Lecture
2. 3 by Lucile Clifton
3. Sonnets across the years from the Poetry Foundation
4. Love Poems to God.
Monday Oct 23, 2017
Podcast: The Poetry Show -- 10.23.17 -- All of Us or None
Monday Oct 23, 2017
Monday Oct 23, 2017
This episode of the poetry show was broadcast October 2, 2017 on Enlighten Radio from the Red Caboose Studio in Bolivar, West Virginia
David Wagoner, Pablo Neruda, James Thurber, and Bertolt Brecht headline the readings this week.
The playlist:
Music from Bill Morrissey
Advice to the Orchestra -- David Wagoner
Crossing Half a River -- David Wagoner
Last Look -- David Wagoner
Ode to the Scent of a Woman -- Pablo Neruda
The Owl Who Was God -- James Thurberr
All of Us or None, The Stormtrooper, The Burning of the Books -- Bertolt Brecht
Monday Oct 16, 2017
Podcast: The Halloween Poetry Show -- Oct 16, 2017
Monday Oct 16, 2017
Monday Oct 16, 2017
The Poetry Show broadcasts Mondays, 7:30 on Enlighten Radio, from the Red Caboose Studio in Bolivar, West Virginia.
The Halloween Poetry Show features the following chilling poems:
The Black Cat -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The Goblin Market -- Christina Rosetti
The Raven -- E. A. Poe read by Christopher Lee
Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank] -- Shakespeare
Halloween -- Rob't Burns
The Haunted Oak -- Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
Counting Crows provides a stretch version of Friend of the Devil.