This episode of Hound Dog and Abel Eakin is broadcast from Paris on the Potomac on Februrary 23rd, 2017 on EPIC Radio and has just enough nonsense to get you thru your first cup of coffee before having to swallow the live toad served up by the world each day for a working breakfast.

This podcast of Storytelling wih Fanny Crawford was broadcast live on February 20, 2017 at EPIC Radio.

This podcast of the Labor Beat Program on EPIC Radio was recorded liveat EPIC studio in Shepherdstown, WV,  February 17, 2017 at 9 AM EST. Hosts JB Christensen and John Case talk first with Xavier Walter, an expert on energy efficiency and panelist at the Common Ground Expo at Shepherd University. and Joan Michelson, Green Connections Media, Washington, DC, who will be keynoting the Expo. Next, Larry Schultz, a personal injury and employment attorney, outlined legal  issues affecting public safety and property rights in connection with a proposed naturral gas pipeline into Berkeley and Jefferson Counties across the potomac river.

Broadcast from EPIC Radio, Jan 30, 2017 from Shepherdstown, WV. The Poetry show airs 7:30 9:00 AM, Mondays.
 
 
Current poet laureate of the United Kingdom, Dame Carol Ann Duffy was born on December 23, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland, the oldest of five children. The family moved to Stafford in the West Midlands of England when Duffy was six years old. When she was 16 years old, she met the poet and painter Adrian Henri, with whom she subsequently formed a more than decade long relationship. She attended the University of Liverpool, earning a degree in philosophy. At the time of her graduation in 1977, she has already published two poetry collections; however, she gained greater recognition when she won the National Poetry Competition in 1983. Her poetry collections for adults include Standing Female Nude (Anvil Poetry Press, 1985), Selling Manhattan (Anvil Poetry Press, 1987), The Other Country (Anvil Poetry Press, 1990), and The World's Wife (Anvil Poetry Press, 1999). Picador has recently brought out her Collected Poems (Picador, 1995), which includes these collections and four subsequent ones. She has also written seven collections of poetry for children, four plays, and edited numerous anthologies. Her work is enormously popular in the United Kingdom, and it has been reported that teenagers entering British universities to study English chose her poetry as second only to Shakespeare's. Appointed as poet laureate in 2009, she has set up new prizes, promoted festivals, and in general worked to increase the audience for and recognition of poetry and poets. For further information, she her website, www.carolannduffy.co.uk. 
 
Although it is a couple of weeks early, this week's featured poem is "Valentine," from Mean Time (Anvil Poetry Press, 1993), reprinted in her Collected Poems (Picador, 2015). This poem is an unconventional look at a gift for Valentine's Day, humorous, but with a bite. VALENTINENot a red rose or a satin heart.I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises lightlike the careful undressing of love. Here.It will blind you with tearslike a lover. It will make your reflectiona wobbling photo of grief. I am trying to be truthful. Not a cute card or a kissogram. I give you an onion. Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithfulas we arefor as long as we are. Take it. Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding-ring, if you like. Lethal. Its scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife.

Sammi Brown, a young, multi-racial, dynamic activist and  a national and state leader of Young Democrats, interviews on EPIC Radio, broadcasting from Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Jan 30, 2017

Stewart Acuff, legendary organizer and labor writer, launches his own show on EPIC -- RESISTANCE RADIO.  This inaugural episode was broadcast on Jan 27 on EPIC Radio from Shepherdstown, WV, 11-12 Noon, EST. Stewart's guests include Rand Wilson, as leader of the Labor for Bernie campaign, and James Haslam - another legendary organizer from Vermont.

The Paris on the Potomac Show, on EPIC Radio, from Shepherdstown, WV, with JOhn Case and Gayle Becker, broadcast on Dec 16, 2016.
 
The Rev Mark Stone (Cumberland, Md) and WV ACLU President Joseph Cohen discuss Diversity training, and the role of fundamentalism, in a post - factual, post-democratic, democracy...

John Christensen, John Case and Stewart Acuff (Mike Diesel is Everywhere) pull a snoot on the Batardo! Election of the Creep.
The Labor Beat Radio Program on EPIC Radio. Broadcast Dec 15, 2016 from our studio at 117 Back Alley, Shepherdstown, WV, atop the Four Seasons Bookstore.