The Poetry Show: Crossing the Equinox

 
 
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Oliver, Rilke, Yeats, McGrath, Kunitz -- No Shelter for the Homeless?"
 
 
"...So let us go on, cheerfully enough, this and every crisping day, though the sun be swinging east, and the ponds be cold and black, and the sweets of the year be doomed."
Mary Oliver
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded September 24, 2025
The Wild Swans at Coole
by William Butler Yeats
 
The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans.The nineteenth autumn has come upon me Since I first made my count; I saw, before I had well finished, All suddenly mount And scatter wheeling in great broken rings Upon their clamorous wings.
I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, And now my heart is sore. All's changed since I, hearing at twilight, The first time on this shore, The bell-beat of their wings above my head, Trod with a lighter tread.
Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still.
But now they drift on the still water, Mysterious, beautiful; Among what rushes will they build, By what lake's edge or pool Delight men's eyes when I awake some day To find they have flown away?
 
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The last Stop Cafe: Watch that step off the plank

 
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The last Stop Cafe: Watch that step off the Back Porch
Mafia Morality Takes Over America: Will Sports Stay Poor? Is Every Game Rigged?
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Thursdays 10 AM
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
Cuccherini weighs in on pro women's sports. Where is the Fair Game? That step off the porch? It has no bottom.
This Episode Recorded Aug 28, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Paris on the Potomac: A working class candidate challenges Capito

 
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Paris on the Potomac: A working class candidate challenges Capito
Zach Shrewsbury Joins Bernie's Anti-Oligarchy Tour though West Virginia
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
 
Zach Shrewsbury
Zach Shrewsbury joins the show to sound his call for a new regime in the State of West Virginia: Higher Wages, good jobs, health care for all, renewable energy, clean water and a scourge of the banditry and corruption that have overtaken the state government, flunkies for their putrid master.
This Episode Recorded Aug 15, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Sports Smackdowns and Curtain Calls from the Mikester

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Sports Smackdowns and Curtain Calls from the Mikester
Nationals Are Coming Back from the Dead. So is Hitler's secret child.
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
Is it possible for Baseball to be a metaphore for all of society: a fair game is a beautiful thing!
This Episode Recorded Aug 11, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Paris on the Potomac

 
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Paris on the Potomac
Black Park and the Bouncing Moon
Sing along: "GOOD: GOOD", "TROUBLE: TROUBLE"
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
John and Karen return for a summertime look at the chaos letting loose in Jefferson County in the wake of BBB-Bullshit
Carol Ann Duffy:"If you think of the dark as a black park and the moon as a bounced ball,
then there’s nothing to be frightened of
at all.
(Except for aliens…)"
 
This Episode Recorded July 18, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: British Laureate

 
 
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A British Poet Gives Up Being an Astronaut.
 
 
Cecil Day Lewis, Carol Ann Duffy, Ted Hughes,
John Masefield
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded July 16, 2025
Is It Far To Go?
by Cecil Day Lewis
Is it far to go? A step -- no further. Is it hard to go? Ask the melting snow, The eddying feather. What can I take there? Not a hank, not a hair. What shall I leave behind? Ask the hastening wind, The fainting star. Shall I be gone long? For ever and a day. To whom there belong? Ask the stone to say, Ask my song. Who will say farewell? The beating bell. Will anyone miss me? That I dare not tell --Quick, Rose, and kiss me.
(c. 1940)
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: 14 July: Quarterbacking Good Trouble

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: 14 July: Quarterbacking Good Trouble
Having a Birthday? Don't Celebrate. Retaliate!
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: John Case, James Boyd, Mike Diesel
Quarterbacking languages: Every team has its own. The Firestarters vs Water Brigades? Good Trouble at the Last Stop Cafe
This Episode Recorded July 14, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Has Trump Taken Over the Nationals?

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Has Trump Taken Over the Nationals?
Baby Lerner: You Suck
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case
The firings of Nationals General Manager Martinez, and the carcas of US "democracy" being left to wolves by the US Supreme Court beg some synchronicity questions......
This Episode Recorded July 10, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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