Enlighten Radio Presents
Paris on the Potomac: A Hard Rain is Fallin'
 
Special Guest: Zach Shrewsbury:
Bluejay Rising is Spreading Across West Virginia
Bluejay Rising is a community action driven political movement. Zach Shrewsbury's historic US Senate campaign was just a beginning of a new kind of politics. The floods in southern West Virginia exposed the utter incompetence -- and indifference -- of the very noisy Trumpers running the WV state government's response to a serious crisis wiping out hundreds of families.
This Episode Recorded February 28, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
Paris on the Potomac:
Tens of thousands of loyal, devoted Federal Workers Summarily Fired
SHAME!!!! BETRAYAL!!!!
 
 
Fridays, 7:30_ish AM Eastern -- LIVE
Special Guest: Joe Grey
The people who serve the American people, under sacred civil and moral codes, have been betrayed by a scrum of billionaires masquerading as populists. Special guest Joe Grey joins us. Joe is a retired federal worker, a friend, frequent guest and commenter on this program for a number of years. His recollections of the codes of duty and sacrifices of federal workers now frame a memoir as a painful eulogy.
This Episode Recorded Feb 14, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
To the Marriage of True Minds
 
 
Love poems both ideal and sensual, married and seasoned: Yeats, e.e. cummings, Willie the Shake, Rilke, Neruda.
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Broadcast Wednesdays 10 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded Feb 12, 2025
Sonnet XI
by Pablo Neruda
 
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
Labor Beat Radio: The labor movement: guardian of democracy
Special Guest: Constitutional historian Ray Smock.
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
 
Guests: Ray Smock
Retired director of the Byrd Legislative center at Shepherd University
Description: Ray Smock is a retired offical historian of the US House of Representatives, and a powerful, eloquent commentator on the current political scene and the emergent constitutional crisis.
This Episode Recorded February 11, 2014 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
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Between the Blaze and the Black: Thru the Lens
 
 
Janet says she went looking for planet poems, after pondering the stars. She was not satisfied, but found -- beautiful poems on the theme of telescopes: Get to know the planets, and stars, and ourselves, better. Ted Kooser, Louise Gluck, Emma Trelles, Jessica Young, Diane Thiel, Kewayne Wadley report in verse.
Broadcast Wednesdays 10 AM Eastern, player.enlightenraio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded February 6, 2025######
Night of the Telescopes
by Emma Trelles
I have buried my share and hardly anyone knows. A house must hold ghosts, writing Names across funereal woods and windows Good for viewing the lingering past. This night of telescopes fixes the cold October sky—a Saturn so delicate as if Sketched by moths holding to nearby stones For their lives. The sutures of the moon drift Into sharpness and a hand points to the inevitable screen Another haunt in this dim garden where voices ride Across pines and the invisible fountain locked In the same little song. Here is the Sea of Crisis And I would recognize its expanse anywhere Having visited often, even beneath my lids when I disappear At night to visit with a father who no longer knows me Or the dead who always do, and glow like the rain or a rose Finished with the business of becoming. I can’t say the worst Because I’ll keep living it. Machine of the mind. Belt Of the hunter. I can spot his patient blade from either coast— The one where I drown the one where I love the one Where I keep rowing through the blaze and the black.
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
Paris on the Potomac: A Chance to Stand Up
If you are waiting for a savior, Spartacus may be the only one coming!
 
 
Broadcasts Fridays 7:30 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case, James Boyd
Karen, John and James walk through impending collapse of US democracy, and peace between peoples.
This Episode Recorded Jan 31, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Moonlight Twixt Twilight and Starlight
 
 
As you might expect, moon poems abound, and winter ones outnumber the harvest ones, and appear neck and neck with Junes. Lisel Mueller, Jane Toomer, E. E. Cummings, Padraig O Tuama, Dylan Thomas and Robert Hayden traverse the imagination twixt twilight and starlight, in the moon's shadows.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded Jan 23, 2025
Who Kknows If the Moon...
by ee cummings
 
who knows if the moon's a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the sky
filled with pretty people? (and if you and i should get into it,
if they should take me and take you into their balloon. why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where
always it's Spring)and everyone]s in love and flowers pick themselves
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
Labor Beat Radio: The WV Legislative Session -- Worker and Retiree Concerns
Medicaid, PEIA coverage, Public Education -- The Big Step Back?
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern Time at player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen
 
Special Guest: Frank Caputo
Description: Labor Beat welcomes special guest Frank Caputo, a board member of the WV Alliance for Retired Americans and a longtime member and leader of the American Federation of Teachers in West Virginia. Whats at stake for workers and retirees in the upcoming WV legislative session with a Republican super-majority.
This Episode Recorded Jan 21, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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