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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: April 14: Folk and Fairy Tales

The Last Stop Cafe: Sports and Failed States

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Sports and Failed States
Its Spring Training -- Baseball will fix everything.
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case
The Cucch takes apart the baseball spring spirits, and the collapse of our Giant Redwood Nation into a pile of tinder.
This Episode Recorded April 7, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Labor Beat Radio: Bluejay Rising

 
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Labor Beat Radio: Bluejay Rising
Zach Shrewsbury -- Bluejay Rising
 
 
Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
 
Guests: Zach Shrewsbury
Description: Zach Shrewsbury joins usto discuss Bluejay Rising, a grass roots, community action based political movement within the Democratic party in southern West Virginia. Bluejay Rising has been focusing on flood relief. Zach's historic grass roots Senate campaign argues strongly for a grass roots path for the Democratic party to return to relevance, and winning.Here is Zach's speech at the Charleston, WV Hand Off rally.
This Episode Recorded April 8, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: The Poetry of Sue Silver

 
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Shepherdstown, WV Poet Sue Silver Shines
 
Image: a MS Copilot interpretation of a verse in Catness
 
Sue Silver -- a longtime Shepherdstown poet, shares some poignant and powerful poems. Her friends join in the studio to listen to her reading. In the poem below, Sekhmet was a powerful and multifaceted ancient Egyptian goddess, often depicted with a lioness head, representing both the destructive force of war and sun's healing power.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded April 9, 2025
Catness
by Sue Silver
One night with the wind blowing wildly my cat climbs down from the porch chair. She rolls around on the ground. I wait, hold the door open ‘til she, in her own time, makes her way inside. The wind, all this while, works to wrest the door from my grasp. I run my hand over her black fur. Her yellow eyes gaze at me steadily. She purrs, her claws extend and retract on the cushion that protects my legs as she sits in my lap. I see the Egyptian Goddess, Sekhmet, who did Ra’s bidding annihilating evil hordes, after which she became the Great Healer, they say. Ancient one - She who lives with the wind, her eyes and paws reaching to me. Her body, an echo of all cats - tiger, panther, bobcat. Her stride, her stance that stillness in her strength. The stalk, the pounce.
 
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The Poetry Show: Poems and Movies

 
 
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The Movie was a Poem
 
Billy Collins excerpt: 
I would like to watch a movie tonightin which a stranger rides into townor where someone embarks on a long journey,a movie with the promise of danger,danger visited upon the citizens of the townby the stranger who rides in ...
 
Mind Twisters Warnings : The double feature --- 'passing for white'--- Horror show --- Please Stop Talking During the Movie.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded April 2, 2025
 
Poem of the Week
 
Early Cinema
by Elizabeth Alexander
 
According to Mister Hedges, the custodian who called upon their parents after young Otwiner and young Julia were spotted at the matinee of Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik at the segregated Knickerbocker Theater in the uncommon Washington December of 1922, “Your young ladies were misrepresenting themselves today,” meaning, of course, that they were passing. After coffee and no cake were finished and Mister Hedges had buttoned his coat against the strange evening chill, choice words were had with Otwiner and Julia, shame upon the family, shame upon the race. How they’d longed to see Rudolph Valentino, who was swarthy like a Negro, like the finest Negro man. In The Sheik, they’d heard, he was turbaned, whisked damsels away in a desert cloud. They’d heard this from Lucille and Ella who’d put on their fine frocks and French, claiming to be “of foreign extraction” to sneak into the Knickerbocker Theater past the usher who knew their parents but did not know them.
They’d heard this from Mignon and Doris who’d painted carmine bindis on their foreheads braided their black hair tight down the back, and huffed, “We’ll have to take this up with the Embassy” to the squinting ticket taker. Otwiner and Julia were tired of Oscar Michaux, tired of church, tired of responsibility, rectitude, posture, grooming, modulation, tired of homilies each way they turned, tired of colored right and wrong. They wanted to be whisked away.
The morning after Mister Hedges’ visit the paperboy cried “Extra!” and Papas shrugged camel’s hair topcoats over pressed pajamas, and Mamas read aloud at the breakfast table, “No Colored Killed When Roof Caves In” at the Knickerbocker Theater at the evening show from a surfeit of snow on the roof. One hundred others dead. It appeared that God had spoken. There was no school that day, no movies for months after.
 
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Paris on the Potomac: The Blood Moon Show

 
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Paris on the Potomac:
The Blood Moon Show
Report Back from the WV Legislature. Omigod!
 
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: John Case, Karen Valentine
John and Karen ponder the portents ahead: Time to Stand UP.
This Episode Recorded Mar 14, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Last Stop Cafe Show: Sports & WV Cyanide Commentary

 
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The Last Stop Cafe Show: Sports & WV Cyanide Commentary
Sports Forecast: Casey at the Bat? James Walks Again!!
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
Mike, John and James revel in baseball, then despair at uncovering the secret of WV overall decline, and commit themselves to a TONTINE
This Episode Recorded Mar 31, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: the Yellow Show

 
 
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"I have nothing else to give you, so it is a pot full of yellow corn...I love you"
 
 
The Yellow poems this week concludes Janet's foray into the three basic colors via the jeweled eye of our favorite -- and newly discovered -- poets: Pablo Neruda, Charles Demuth, William Blake, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and more
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded March 26, 2025
A Lemon
by Pablo Neruda
 
A Lemon Out of lemon flowers loosed on the moonlight, love's lashed and insatiable essences, sodden with fragrance, the lemon tree's yellow emerges, the lemons move down from the tree's planetarium Delicate merchandise! The harbors are big with it- bazaars for the light and the barbarous gold. We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb. Cutting the lemon the knife leaves a little cathedral: alcoves unguessed by the eye that open acidulous glass to the light; topazes riding the droplets, altars, aromatic facades. So, while the hand holds the cut of the lemon, half a world on a trencher, the gold of the universe wells to your touch: a cup yellow with miracles, a breast and a nipple perfuming the earth; a flashing made fruitage, the diminutive fire of a planet.
 
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