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Podcast: The Labor Day Poetry Show -- 2017

This morning's poetry show opens with Joy Harjo and her band Poetic Justice,  performing two of her stunning compositions: She had some horses, and Letter from the 20th Century.
 
Naomi Shihab Nye's very short story Thud -- the moment when the person to person connection wipes out islolation -- teases us with the change to come.
 
Elizabeth Alexander's Praise poem on the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, and Marge Piercy's To Be Of Use officially open the Labor Day celebration. Alicia Ostriker, Philip Levine, Lucille Clifton, and Langston Hughes chart the courses of Labor's freedom. Ray Bradbury's Last Night of the World begs the question: What do we do with the time we have left.
 
This podcast was broadcast on EnlightenRadio.org on Labor Day, Sept 4, 2017 from the Red Caboose Studio in Bolivar, West Virginia. John Case and  Mike Diesel host.

Enlighten Radio: August 28: Fanny and Stas interview Megan Hicks

Winners and Losers: Aug 30, 2017 -- West Virginia Working Families, Plus Honoring Houston

This podcast of the winners and losers radio program on enlightenradio.org was broadcast August 30, ,2017 from the Red caboose studio in Bolivar, West Virginia. It features an interview with Ryan Frankenberry, Executive Director of West Virginia  Working Families plus exchanges with Trump, Melania, Kim Jong Un, Jim Justice, and Sen. Al Franken on the catastrophe striking the gulf coast of Texas, especially Houston.

Podcast: Resistance Radio Honors Houston -- Aug 30, 2017

This podcast of Resistance News features host Stewart Acuff and John Case on the cultures of Houston, Texas and the rich ethnic and racial traditions of the Texas Gulf Coast. It was broadcast live at the Red Caboose Studio on enlightenradio.org Wednesday, Aug 30, 2017, 10 AM .

Podcast: The Are You Crazy Health and Wellness Show: -- The Insanity of Addiction Treatment

Dr Zakee McGill and Dr John Aldis discuss the latest developments in the opioid epidemic, with a focus on the situation in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, one of the hardest hit areas. Dr Aldis is a widely respected physician with deep experience in evidence-based treatment of victims of addiction addiction disease. Dr Zakee McGill hosts the program, broadcast on EnlightenRadio.org August 29, 2017, from the Red Caboose Studio in Bolivar, West Virginia.

Winners and Losers - Aug 29, 2017 -- Kim Jon Un Calls, Brexitism and Labor, how to brush your teeth...

Mike Diesel and John Case do the Aug 29 News and Chews review from Abyssmia, located in the Red Caboose at EnlightenRadio.org, now a new island born from Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico. 
Kim Jong Un calls in to explain, kinda, to an Ugly American, the missile shot over Japan. 
What does Brexit mean for UK Labor? Is "Economic Nationalism" a trap for labor that Fascists exploit to divide them from natural allies?
Iran gets Syria? Really?
Russia gets a new bloc?
A navy cruiser collision with Mike Diesel in the Gulf of Mexico is captured on tape.

Podcast: The Poetry Show -- The Elephant that Challenged the World, Neruda, Rilke, Clifton and more

This podcast of the poetry show was broadcast at EnlightenRadio.org studio -- the Red Caboose in Harpers Ferry, WV -- August 28, 2017. The Poetry Show is the Monday show on the Winners and Losers Radio  Program.
This podcast opens with James Thurber's "The Elephant that Challenged the World" -- no explication should be needed. This follows selections from Ilan Stavas' wonderful collection and translations of Pablo Neruda's Odes --All the Odes.  Having climbed the Andes of Poetry, why not take on the Alps as well? We follow with the first of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies. A sample of readings from Lucile Clifton and E. Ethelbert Miller close the show, along with Rilke's The Death of Moses.
Music is mostly from an later acoustic bootleg of Jackson Brown and David Lindley in Belgium.

Enlighten Radio: August 21: Fanny and Stas tell Sky Stories