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The new National Book Award winning poet in his new home in Shelburne Falls talks with Monte and reads from the award-winning book Floaters. You can hear him read in person Friday April 8th in his new hometown.

Monte talks with Edo Mor and Chef Neftalí Duran about this weekend's Colliderfest coming to Bombyx.

Hampshire College astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed tells us about the lucky break the Hubble Telescope got from the Universe to help us observe the farthest star to date. And the star's name is a tribute to Lord of The Rings.

The River's Peace Correspondents, Annette and Dean Cycon of Leverett, catch up with Monte at the airport in Poland and reflect on their weeks assisting refugees from Ukraine.

Why wasn't Monte invited to any of these Madison Hawthorne parties? And what is the Congressman doing to make legal drugs cheaper and more legal?

First Light Power is in the process of relicensing its dams in Turners Falls and ?Northfield. Environmental activist and journalist Karl Meyer is not happy with how the license is goin. He's holding an event on the Gill-Montague Bridge over the Connecticut River on  Saturday April 2nd from 11-1 where he is asking people to dress in black and mourn the river. Why is this John The Baptist voice in the wilderness so pessimistic? Listen to what he has to say to Monte in Monte's literal backyard.

Emily Brewster, on the week of one of the most famous punches of all time, talks about what the dictionary thinks about punching up in comedy, punching down in comedy, punchlines is comedy, and punching.

Northampton's own leader of the Tricontinental Institute, Vijay Prashad, is in conversation tonight about the war in Ukraine. But in conversation with Monte, he tells us what he thinks the American public is not focusing enough on in the coverage of this war.

Empty Bowls Dinner at the Amherst Survival Center by 93.9 The River

Monte talks with Andy Fisk, director of The Connecticut River Conservancy, about the stalemate with First Light Power when it comes to relicensing our dams along the Connecticut.