2017-07
2017-07
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Friday Jul 28, 2017
This broadcast of the Winners and Losers Radio program was aired July 28, 2017. John Case and Mike Diesel host the Morning Zoo of Shepherdstown on diverse topics. Profiles in courage and cowardice are examined. Also: Union Edge looks at the connection between the drug trade and immigration policy. And -- a legacy excerpt for Best of the Left on the Death Penalty.
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Friday Jul 28, 2017
This podcast of the Winners and Losers Radio Program was broadcast on EnlightenRadio.org July 27, 2017. John Case and Mike Diesel host a far-rangng discussion of a new Boy Scout Law and Oath in the wake of the so-called President's disgrace and disgust performance; also -- the meaning of Senator Shelley Moore "I won't take away West Virginian's health care" Capito's vote YES on proceeding with a debate that could only end with making that promise a lie. The Gettysburg Address tops it off.
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
This podcast of Resistance Radio was broadcast July 26, 2017 on EnlightenRadio.org, hosted by Stewart Acuff and John Case
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
Richard Wolff on China, WV SOS on Trump Voter Info, Det Mike Queen on the Drug Wars
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
Wednesday Jul 26, 2017
This podcast of the Winners and Losers Radio Program, on EnlightenRadio.org, was broadcast July 26, 2017 from Enlighten Radio Studio in Shepherdstown, WV. John Case and Gayle Becker host. New School and socialist economics professor Richard Wolff discusses profits and China growth. West Virginia Secretary of State Communications Director Mike Queen discusses WV response to Trump request for confidential voter information. Detective Howard Wooldbridge of Law Enforcement Action Partnership discusses the many corruptions and unintended consequences of the war on drugs.
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Living Arrangements -- Enlighten Story Hour July 24, 2017
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Broadcast on Enlightenradio.org 7.24.17 in Shepherdstown, WV. Hosts Fanny Crawford and Stas Zielkowski
Monday Jul 24, 2017
The Poetry Show -- Dan Albergotti -- July 24, 2017
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Broadcast on EnlightenRadio.org July 24, 2017
Hosted by Janet Harrison and John Case
Dan Albergotti has a B.A. (1986) and M.A. (1988) in English from Clemson University in South Carolina. He went on to receive a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of South Carolina (1995). After teaching at the university level for a few years, he returned to school once more, this time to earn a M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2002). Currently he is is a Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, where he also edits the online journal that he founded, Waccamaw. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Charon's Manifest and The Use of the World (Unicorn Press, 2013). Additionally, he has published two full length poetry collections: The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), which was chosen by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the A. Poplin Jr. Poetry Prize, and Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), which was chosen by Rodney Jones as the winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition. He has been published in Best New Poets, 2005, and in 2008, his poem "What They're Doing" was chosen for a Pushcart Prize. His other honors include a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
In an interview published in storySouth, Daniel Cross Turner asked Albergotti what he thought the future of poetry was. Dan Albergotti replied, "More poetry. A series of heartbreaking disappointments and frustrating failures. Charlatans rewarded and geniuses dying unknown, their work forever lost. Despair, tears, syllables silent in the void. And the salvation of the human race."
While his first book, The Boatloads, was written in free verse, his second collection contains many formal poems. This week's featured poem, "Is It Okay If We Don't Oscillate Tonight?" from Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), is a sonnet composed entirely of questions.
IS IT OKAY IF WE DON'T OSCILLATE TONIGHT?
Is it okay if we don't oscillate
between self-forgiveness and self-loathing?
Between the power to change things and fate?
Between simple nakedness and clothing?
Is it okay if the dull pendulum
doesn't swing from one side to the other
tonight? If there's only a steady hum
and sleep and no thoughts of the dead mother?
Could we escape self-scrutiny tonight
and find a tiny precipice of peace?
Is that allowed? Could we shut out the light
and rest our face on our wife's shoulder, please?
Could we, tonight, just listen to the weak,
droning whir of the fan and not its creak?
Writing prompt of the week: Write a poem entirely composed of questions, including the title.
Thursday Jul 20, 2017
West Virginia Resistance Victory Party from the Grass Roof-Tops
Thursday Jul 20, 2017
Thursday Jul 20, 2017
Stewart Acuff hosts three leaders of the Eastern Panhandle Resistance movement very active in mobilizing pressure on Senator Shelley Moore Capito to oppose Trump "I Could Care Less If You are Sick and Die" Care. Susan Pipes of Womens March, Dana Philips from the Voter Registration outreach of the Eastern Panhandle Democratic Party, and Cheryl Kemp, a retired Firefighter lead the discussion of building on this victory to take back the country. This episode was broadcast July 18, 2017 from Shepherdstown, West Virrginia on www.enlightenradio.org.
Thursday Jul 20, 2017
Thursday Jul 20, 2017
HeeHaw in Charge: This episode of the Winners and Losers Radio Program hosted by John Case, DF Philosopher, and the legendary comedian and impersonator, Mike Diesel on July 18, 2017, on enlightenradio.org. The program broadcasts from Back Alley, the OtherSideOfTheTracks, Shepherdstown, West Virginia.