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Enlighten Radio Presents
 
Lay Down the Hammer -- Grab a Partner
 
 
Naomi Shihab Nye, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine, Carol Lynn White, Sandra McPherson
Broadcast Wednesdays, 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded 9/8/2026
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Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Where do you keep all these people? The shoemaker with his rumpled cough. The man who twisted straws into brooms. My teacher, oh my teacher. I will always cry when I think of my teacher. The olive farmer who lost every inch of ground, every tree, who sat with head in his hands in his son's living room for years after. I tucked them into my drawer with cuff links and bow ties. Touched them each evening before I slept. Wished them happiness and peace. Peace in the heart. No wonder we all got heart trouble. But justice never smiled on us. Why didn't it? I tried to get Americans to think of them. But they were too involved with their own affairs to imagine ours. And you can't blame them, really. How much do I think of Africa? I always did feel sad in the back of my mind for places I didn't have enough energy to worry about.
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
The Last Stop Cafe: A Mountain Party Woman Stands for Delegate
Freesom: if you do not defend it -- they will take it from you
 
 
Broadcast Thrsdays 6PM" player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: KarenValentine, James Boyd, John Case, Erik Janus
 
Paige Reiring
Paige Rearing joins us from the other side of the Mountains in Morgantown. Is it time for Independence?
This Episode Recorded 8/20/2026 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
 
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome
 
 
Better Break up than Death poems from some experienced lovers: Catherine Wing -- Yehuda Amichai -- Billy Collins -- Janet Harrison -- Marjorie Agosin
Broadcast Wednesdays, 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded Jul 29, 2026
Darker Sooner
by Catherine Wing
 
Then came the darker sooner, came the later lower. We were no longer a sweeter-here happily-ever-after. We were after ever. We were farther and further. More was the word we used for harder. Lost was our standard-bearer. Our gods were fallen faster, and fallen larger. The day was duller, duller was disaster. Our charge was error. Instead of leader we had louder, instead of lover, never. And over this river broke the winter’s black weather.
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
Waterfall Poems
 
 
Waterfalls --- dining in the Wake of, or On-The-Way-To The Big One --- with Kay Ryan. Accross the world from drainpipes to torrents: drenched.
Broadcast Wednesdays, 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded Aug 5 2026
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The Niagara River
by Kay Ryan
 
As though
the river were
a floor, we position
our table and chairs
upon it, eat, and
have conversation.
As it moves along,
we notice -- as
calmly as though
dining room paintings
were being replaced--
the changing scenes
along the shore. We
do know, we do
know this is the
Niagara River, but
it is hard to remember
what that means.
 
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Welcome to our first published show from STown 
(a somewhat Mythical West Virginia town located in Our County, Our Country, our World.)
 
Let us be mindful of the Rainbow Crow, and her Sacrifice.
 
We follow the News Cycle: Local, National, Global, Cosmic!!
STown  Reporters include the Birds (Nature's own Flockers). So very little will remain unobserved.
 
The Last Stop Cafe Hosts: Karen Valentine, James Boyd, Erik Janus, JB Christensen, John Case.
 
Our First Guests: Susan Pipes, Sara Thomsen
 
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