2017-05
2017-05
Saturday May 27, 2017
Saturday May 27, 2017
This edition of the Are You Crazy? Show was broadcast on Enlighten Radio from Shepherdstown, WV on May 25, 2017. The show regularly airs live a Noon on Wednesdays. Hosts Dr Zakee McGill and John Case welcome frequent guest and author Cordelia Gaffar
Wednesday May 24, 2017
Raw recording of May 24, 2017 Broadcast -- Resistance Update
Wednesday May 24, 2017
Wednesday May 24, 2017
Stewart Acufff and John Case review the latest resistance efforts and latest outrages on the national political scene. We had some technical difficulties with the phone interview, but have posted the remaining discuussion. Check out Enlighten Radio
Wednesday May 24, 2017
The Are You Crazy Program returns to Enlighten Radio
Wednesday May 24, 2017
Wednesday May 24, 2017
John Case takes the Labor Beat show and twists it back into the Winners and Losers program. Its now back to the daily get to work and get R done show --- less politics more poetic license? Check it out -- every day I can -- 6 AM to 8 AM Weekdays...This show was broadcast 5.24.17 at Enlighten Radio Studios in Shepherdstown, WV.
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Friday May 12, 2017
Friday May 12, 2017
Monday May 08, 2017
Th Poetry Show Features Poetry of Samuel Hazo -- May 8,2017
Monday May 08, 2017
Monday May 08, 2017
Janet's notes on this podcast of the Poetry Show on Enlighten Radio, aired on May 8, 2017 in Shepherdstown, WV.
Here are Janet's Notes
The son of Lebanese and Syrian immigrants, Samuel Hazo was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 19, 1928. After his mother died when he was only six years old, his aunt became the primary caretaker for his brother and him. In 1949 he graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and then enlisted in the Marine Corps, serving as a captain. Returning to Pittsburgh after his military service, he earned an M.A. from Duquesne University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. An extremely prolific writer, Samuel Hazo has published in many genres: novels, plays, essays, a memoir, a film script, and more than 30 books of poetry and translations. Among is recent publications in poetry are The Song of the Horse: A Selection of Poems 1958-2008 (Autumn House Press, 2008) and They Rule the World (Syracuse University Press, 2016). He founded the International Poetry Forum in 1966. The organization brought more than 800 poets and performers to Pittsburgh, including such luminaries as Seamus Heaney and Robert Pinsky. Additionally he taught English (1955-1998) and served as an associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1961-1966) at Duquesne University. In 1993, he was appointed poet laureate of Pennsylvania, a position he held for a decade. His poetry is both personal and political, and has been praised by poets such as Naomi Shihab Nye and Martín Espada.
Responding with approval to a remark a friend wrote to him in a letter, "Knowing is stifling; not knowing is creative," Hazo commented, "We live in a world obsessed with the ultimate value of information and the pursuit of the factual over the ambiguous, the obscure or the mysterious." He goes on to draw an important distinction between the language of communication (everything from conversation to journalism, from text messaging to expository prose) and the language of communion (poetic statements, the arts and literature). He states, "Life, however, is by nature not static. It is ultimately a mystery; it has more in common with what we cannot know than what we do know."
This week's featured poem, "Only the New Branches Bloom," is from Song of the Horse: A Selection of Poems from 1958-2008 (Autumn House Press, 2008).
ONLY THE NEW BRANCHES BLOOM
Denying what it means to doubt,
this year's forsythias unfold
and flood the air with yellow
answers.
They say it's time
I opened up, time I learned
French, time I liked less
and loved more, time
I listened to the sun, time
I made time.
Why not?
Can days of making sense
of days that make no sense
make sense?
If nothing's sure
but nothing's sure, then reading
Montesquieu must wait.
Preparing for my enemies must
wait.
And gravity the hurrier
must wait because forsythias
are happening.
They make me
turn my back on forts,
insurance policies, inoculations,
wire barbed or braided,
bodyguards and all that folderol
of fear.
They say that this
year's blossoms will outlive
the lasting death of Mars.
There are no flowers on the stars.
Thursday May 04, 2017
Podcast: Local Truth with Hound Dog and Abel Eakin
Thursday May 04, 2017
Thursday May 04, 2017
This podcast of of the Local Truth show with Hound Dog and Abel Eakin was broadcast April 27, 2017, from Enlighten Radio in Shepherdstown, WV.
Thursday May 04, 2017
Podcast: The May Day Poetry Show -- Jay Parini
Thursday May 04, 2017
Thursday May 04, 2017
The May Day Poetry Show was broadcast live on Enlighten Radio on Monday, May 1, 2017 in Harpers Ferry, WV. It features a discussion of poet Jay Parini and selections from his work.