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The Poetry Show: Here and Now -- Stephen Dunn

 
 
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Let night come ... It can do us no harm.
 
 
Janet and John discuss and share poems Glimpses, Here and Now, and Happiness from Poets.org hosted selections of Stephen Dunn 1939 – 2021
Broadcasting LIVE Wednesdays 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded October 11, 2023
Glimpses
by Stephen Dunn
 
It’s the last few hours of a county fair, or the ninth inning, score tied, in a small-town high school big game, everything that’s going to happen destined to feel inevitable. Everett’s favorite cow has yet to win a prize, and what occurs next on the field will likely determine whether a certain boy, years later, will run for mayor, or still be known as the guy who dropped the ball. Elsewhere in the same town Pastor William is writing down his sermon on what it takes to live a moral life, confusing rectitude with deprivation, and his wife’s frequent, unapologetic nothing-for-you-tonight-dear. Tomorrow, no doubt, because this happens in towns both large and small, seventh-grade Joshua, who knows the answer, but won’t go to the chalkboard because he has a hard-on, is thought to be dumb. That is, until he proves he’s not, the answer written down in code for Mr. Zenner to see, perhaps to understand. Sharon the beauty is also smart and her pet pig wins Best in Class, but she won’t accept the award. The family needs money, but the prize is given by the DAR, and she wants to take a stand. It seems inevitable that in a town this size Joshua and Sharon will marry, but she goes to a faraway college, meets Nathaniel, a city boy who knows nothing about pigs but something about integrity. They fall in love and the rest, as they say, is history—babies and hardship, grad school and in her case visits to the now curious place that was home— Joshua working the counter at Beal’s Hardware, Thursday night bingo at the church— how things could have been had she not become someone else.
 
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Labor Beat Radio: Rule #2 Leave No One Behind

 
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Labor Beat Radio: Rule #2 Leave No One Behind
Band Gas and Coal -- What Happens to the Workers and Families?
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
Description: Remarks by Cecil Roberts, and Michael Bloomberg on the latter's 500 million dollar gift to Beyond Carbon, committed to ban all coal and half of gas by 2030.
   
This Episode Recorded October 10, 2023 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Sports & Comedy Attack: Hail Taylor!

 
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The Sports & Comedy Attack: Hail Taylor!
Evolution of the Gladiator Games
 
 
Broadcasts Live Mondays, 12 Noon Eastern Time
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case
Mike does a stunning roundup of the NFL, The Commanders and their rivals, including the "Swift" impact on online NFL viewing. Nationals Fans-- Do NOT give up hope.
This Episode Recorded October 10, 2023 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: October 9: Photographs

Recovery Cafe Radio: Domain General and Domain Specific

 
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Recovery Cafe Radio: Domain General and Domain Specific
Intersecting Domains Yield General Domains
 
 
Broadcasting LIVE 5 PM Eastern on Thursdays
Hosts: James Boyd, John Case
James and John look at ways to improve production at Enlighten Radio, and break down general vs specific driving forces in addiction recovery. Actually, John never really understood what James was asking, and answered an unasked question. :)
This Episode Recorded October 5, 2023 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: David Wagoner -- 4 Poems

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"From Monument To Dust"
 
 
The program features four poems by David Wagoner: Stones, A Footnote for Isiah 40:3, After Takeoff, and Thoreau In the Rain
Broadcasting LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded October 4, 2023
Stones
by David Wagoner
 
I bring them from the mountains, from the sea, from the edge of streams and look at them, heft them, hold them hard while they keep holding themselves harder. Is it because they haven’t had to change their surfaces in our time though, in theirs, they’ve suffered the blunt demands of ice and water and wind and god knows fire, been cracked and frozen, thawed, made molten again and again have started over grinding and being ground from monument to boulder, to rock, to river stone, to gravel, to pebbles, to sand, to slurries of grit, to dust?
 
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The Poetry Show: Light and Dark

 
 
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"I have faith in nights.'
 
 
The themes of Light and Dark are treated poignantly, "at arms length", and with devotion by the great talents of Jane Kenyon, Robert Frost, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays at 10 AM Eastern Time
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded September 27, 2023
Let Evening Come
by Jane Kenyon
Let the light of late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as the sun moves down. Let the cricket take up chafing as a woman takes up her needles and her yarn. Let evening come. Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned in long grass. Let the stars appear and the moon disclose her silver horn. Let the fox go back to its sandy den. Let the wind die down. Let the shed go black inside. Let evening come. To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop in the oats, to air in the lung let evening come. Let it come, as it will, and don’t be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.
 
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The Sports Comedy Attack: Bloodbath at the Scrimmage Line

 
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The Sports Comedy Attack: Bloodbath at the Scrimmage Line
Never "TIP" the Ball! Goddammit!
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Mondays at Noon, Eastern Time
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case
 
Mike gives a players-eye view of the struggles of both the Commanders and Nationals teams.
 
This Episode Recorded September 25, 2023 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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